Institute of European and Comparative Law

Annual Report for 2010-2011 Introduction It is a pleasure to report on another successful academic year at the Institute. We have

been carrying on with our mission which is to support the Oxford Law Faculty in its teaching

and research activities in EU law and comparative law.

I am particularly delighted to report the ongoing success of the ‘Law with Law Studies in

Europe’ programme (internally known as ‘Course 2’) with ever increasing numbers of

applicants, a by now well-established exchange with the University of Pompeu Fabra in

Barcelona and this year’s outstanding finals results of our Course 2 students (over half of

them obtained a First class degree). Discussions as to a possible extension of the

programme to China are underway.

We continue to organise events of all kinds, ranging from discussion groups to small

seminars and big conferences. They attracted huge numbers of participants and are listed

below. The annual French Law moot has by now become a fixture. All these events were

externally funded.

External funding was also obtained for a number of research positions at post-doctoral

level: we currently have a Marie Curie Fellow (funded by the EU), a Fellow working on the

Common Frame of European Contract Law (funded by the AHRC), two ‘State of the State

Fellows’ (funded by the eponymous programme of the Volkswagen Foundation); and will

soon be able to add an annual ‘Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellow (funded by the Stockholm

Centre for Commercial Law).

Much of the research that was conducted by members of the Institute was published or

presented during the academic year 2010-2011. A detailed list is given below.

As Director of the Institute, I am grateful to all our benefactors and donors who enable us to

pursue such an ambitious agenda. A particular note of thanks goes to Jenny Dix who has

coped with an ever increasing workload in what continues a rapidly growing institution.

Stefan Vogenauer

28 October 2011

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Academic Staff Professor Ulf Bernitz, Research Fellow, co-ordinates the Oxford-Stockholm Collaboration

Professor John Cartwright, Academic Director of Undergraduate Exchange Programmes

Dr Thomas Dietz, Anglo-German Fellow, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

Dr Ariel Ezrachi, heads the Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP)

Professor Mark Freedland, Deputy Director

Mr Thomas Fuehrich, Max Planck Fellow for 2010-11

Ms Caroline Harvey, Research Fellow, funded by the AHRC

Dr Geneviève Helleringer, Marie Curie Fellow

Professor Guillaume Leyte, Deputy Director on secondment from the Université Panthéon-Assas

Mr Nello Pasquini, Linklaters Teaching Fellow for Italian Law (part-time)

Dr Wolf-Georg Ringe, DAAD Fellow, Deputy Director

Dr Jure Vidmar, Anglo-German Fellow, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Professor of Comparative Law, Director

Dr Betiel Wasihun, German Language Teacher (part-time)

Professor Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, Deputy Director

Dr Katja Ziegler, Erich Brost University Lecturer Associated Research Fellows Professor Hugh Beale, University of Warwick

Professor Anthony Bradley, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh University

Dr Alexandra Braun, Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall

Dr Eric Descheemaeker, University of Bristol

Professor Gerhard Dannemann, Centre For British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz, Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College

Dr Justine Pila, Fellow of St Catherine’s College

Professor Simon Whittaker, Fellow of St John’s College and Professor of European Comparative Law

Administrator Ms Jenny Dix

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Publications (a) Books Steven Anderman and Ariel Ezrachi (eds), Intellectual Property and Competition Law: New Frontiers (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011) Hugh Beale, Chitty on Contracts, Second Supplement to the 30th ed. (London, Sweet & Maxwell 2010) 436 pp (general editor and editor of chapters 5-7, 26 and part of 43) Caron Beaton-Well and Ariel Ezrachi (eds), Criminalising Cartels: A Critical Interdisciplinary Study of an International Regulatory Movement (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) Ulf Bernitz and Wolf-Georg Ringe (eds), Company Law and Economic Protectionism – New Challenges to European Integration (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010) 358 pp Anthony Bradley and Keith Ewing, Constitutional and Administrative Law (London, Pearson Education 2010) 15th edition John Cartwright, Stefan Vogenauer and Simon Whittaker (eds), Regards comparatistes sur l’avant projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription (Paris, Société de législation comparé 2010 – Collection Droit privé comparé et européen, vol. 9) 730 pp Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi and Stephen Weatherill (eds), Regulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe: the Case of Personal Suretyships (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010), xxxii + 572 pp Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law? (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) xv + 636 pp Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris, The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011) Geneviève Helleringer, Les clauses contractuelles. Essai de typologie (Paris, LGDJ, forthcoming 2012) 550 pp Geneviève Helleringer and Kai Purnhagen (eds), Legal Cultures (Modern European Law Series, Hart/Nomos/Beck, forthcoming 2012) Christopher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer and Magdalena Tulibacka (eds), The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2010) xviii + 568 pp Volker Triebel, Martin Illmer, Georg Ringe, Stefan Vogenauer and Katja Ziegler, Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht [English Commercial and Business Law], 3rd edn (Frankfurt/Main, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, forthcoming 2011) ca 550 pp Erika de Wet and Jure Vidmar (eds), Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012)

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Simon Whittaker (ed), The Development of Product Liability (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2010) 276 pp Katja Ziegler (with L Lazarus, N Ghanea and C Costello), The Evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Case Law: a Comparison of the European and the United Nations Systems (European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies 2011) available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=34751 (b) Articles Hugh Beale, ‘Reform of the Law of Limitation in England and Wales’ in O Remien (ed), Verjährungsrecht in Europa – zwischen Bewärung und Reform (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2010) 45-58 Hugh Beale, ‘The Content of the Political CFR – How to Prioritise’ in J Kleineman (ed), A Common Frame of Reference for European Contract Law (Stockholm, Jure Förlag 2011) 27-32 Hugh Beale, ‘The Common Frame of Reference and the Work of the Expert Group’ (2011) Internationaler Rechtsverkehr 15-18 Hugh Beale and Geraint Howells, ‘Pre-contractual Information Duties in the Optional Instrument’ in R Schulze and J Stuyck (eds), Towards a European Contract Law (Munich, Sellier 2011) 49-62 Ulf Bernitz, ‘Preliminary References and Swedish Courts: What Explains the Continuing Restrictive Attitude?’ in Liber Amicorum Pernilla Lindh (Oxford, Hart Publishing, forthcoming) Ulf Bernitz, ‘The Unfair Practices Directive and the Legislation Implementing it in Sweden: A Comparison’ in Swedish Studies in European Law, Vol. III (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) 241-261 Ulf Bernitz and Norbert Reich, ‘Case Comment. The Labour Court, Sweden, Judgment in the Case Laval et Partneri’ (2011) Common Market Law Review 603-623 Ulf Bernitz, ‘Mechanisms of Ownership Control and the Issue of Disproportionate Distribution of Power’ in U Bernitz and W-G Ringe (eds), Company Law and Economic Protectionism – New Challenges to European Integration (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010) 191-206 Anthony Bradley, ‘The Sovereignty of Parliament – Form or Substance?’ in J Jowell and D Oliver (eds), The Changing Constitution (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011) 35-69 Anthony Bradley, ‘Review of Young, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (2009)’ (2011) Public Law 844-846 Alexandra Braun, ‘Trusts in the Draft Common Frame Of Reference: The “Best Solution” for Europe?’ (2011) 70 Cambridge Law Journal 327-352

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Alexandra Braun, ‘An Italian Perspective’ in ‘Symposium: Book X (Trusts) of the DCFR’ (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 475-479 Alexandra Braun, ‘Judges and Academics: Features of a Partnership’ in J Lee (ed), From House of Lords to Supreme Court: Judges, Jurists and the Process of Judging (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2010) 227-253 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Common-Law Based Contracts under German Law’ in G Cordero-Moss (ed), Boilerplate Clauses, International Commercial Contracts and the Applicable Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2011) 62-79 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Draft for a First Chapter (Subject Matter, Application and Scope) of an Optional European Contract Law (drafted and published on behalf of the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group))’ (2011) Oxford University Comparative Law Forum 2 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Martin Wolff (1872-1953)’ in S Grundmann, M Kloepfer, C Paulus, R Schröder and G Werle (eds), Festschrift 200 Jahre Juristische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, De Gruyter 2010) 561-582 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘“A Man of Bad Character Has Not So Much to Lose”: Truth as a Defence in the South African Law of Defamation’ (2011) 128 South African Law Journal 452-478 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Fusionner droit strict et équité: aperçus sur le droit anglais de la responsabilité civile’ [‘Merging Common Law and Equity: Perspectives on the English Law of Civil Wrongs’] in D Baranger (ed), L’équité et ses métamorphoses (Paris 2011) 91-107 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Metzger (ed) David Daube: A Centenary Celebration (Glasgow 2010)’ (2011) 89 Revue historique de droit français et étranger 127-128 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘“Veritas non est defamatio”? Truth as a Defence in the Law of Defamation’ (2011) 31 Legal Studies 1-20 [winner of the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2010] Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Defamation Outside Reputation. Proposals for the Reform of English Law’ (2010) 18 Tort Law Review 133-139 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘La dualité des torts en droit français (délits, quasi-délits et la notion de faute’ [‘The Twofoldness of Wrongs in French Law: Delicts, Quasi-delicts, and the Concept of Fault’] (2010) 109 Revue trimestrielle de droit civil 435-457 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Cartwright, Vogenauer and Whittaker (eds) Reforming the French Law of Obligations. Comparative Reflections on the Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription (the ‘Avant-projet Catala’) (Oxford 2009)’ (2010) 73 Modern Law Review 1086-1089 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of McNamara, Reputation and Defamation (Oxford 2007)’ (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 642-644 Thomas Dietz, ‘Contract Law, Relational Contracts and Reputational Networks in International Trade’ (forthcoming 2011) Law and Social Inquiry

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Ariel Ezrachi, ‘Competition Law Enforcement and Refusal to Licence - The Changing Boundaries of Article 102 TFEU’ in S Anderman and A Ezrachi (eds), Intellectual Property and Competition Law: New Frontiers (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011) Ariel Ezrachi (with C Beaton-Wells), ‘Criminalising Cartels - Why Critical Studies?’ in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi (eds), Criminalising Cartels: A Critical Interdisciplinary Study of an International Regulatory Movement (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) Ariel Ezrachi (with J Kindl), ‘Cartels as Criminal? The Long Road from Unilateral Enforcement to International Consensus’ in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi (eds), Criminalising Cartels: A Critical Interdisciplinary Study of an International Regulatory Movement (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) Ariel Ezrachi (with J Kindl), ‘Criminalisation of Cartel Activity – A Desirable Goal for India’s Competition Regime?’ (2011) 23(1) National Law School of India Review Ariel Ezrachi, ‘Unchallenged Market Power? The Tale of Supermarkets, Private labels and Competition Law’ (2010) 33 World Competition 2, 257-274 Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris, ‘The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law’ in G Davidov and B Langille (eds), The Idea of Labour Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011) Chapter 12 Caroline Harvey (with Boris Kasolowsky), 'European Commission Amicus Curiae Participation in Investment Treaty Arbitration Cases: Safeguarding the Fair Trial Rights of the Investor' (forthcoming January 2012) Transnational Dispute Management Caroline Harvey (with Boris Kasolowsky), ‘Amici curiae in Investment Treaty Arbitrations: Authority and Procedural Fairness’ (2009) 2 Stockholm International Arbitration Review 1 (appeared in 2011 although the journal is dated 2009) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Contractual Clauses: a Cross-European Legal Cultures Tool in the Harmonization Tool Box’ in G Helleringer and K Purnhagen (eds), European Legal Cultures (Modern European Law Series, Hart/Nomos/Beck, forthcoming 2012) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Clause’ in C Thibierge (ed), Dictionnaire des sources du droit [The Handbook of the Sources of the Law] (Dalloz, forthcoming 2012) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Statuts’ [‘Statutes’] in C Thibierge (ed), Dictionnaire des sources du droit [The Handbook of the Sources of the Law] (Dalloz, forthcoming 2012) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Pacte d’associés’ [‘Shareholder Agreement’] in C Thibierge (ed), Dictionnaire des sources du droit [The Handbook of the Sources of the Law] (Dalloz, forthcoming 2012) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Intérêt général et intérêt collectif en droit économique’ [‘General Interest and Collective Interest in the Field of Economic Law’] in B Parance (ed), L’intérêt général et l’intérêt collectif (Economica, forthcoming 2012) Geneviève Helleringer, ‘La métamorphose des clauses contractuelles: une illustration de la densification normative’ [‘How the way the law gets denser impacts contract clauses’] in C Thibierge (ed), La densification normative – Etude d’un processus (Dalloz, forthcoming 2012)

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Geneviève Helleringer, ‘National Solidarity Compensation Schemes for Medical Malpractice’ (2011) Chicago-Kent Law Review, Fall Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Review of Hesselink, CFR & Social Justice (Sellier 2008)’ (2010) RTD Eur. 2010/3 Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Review of Schulze, Common Frame of Reference and Existing EC Contract Law (Sellier 2009)’ (2010) RTD Eur. 2010/3 Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Review of von Bar and Clive, Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) (Sellier 2009)’ (2010) RTD Eur. 2010/2 Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘“Where Angels Fear to Tread”: The EU Law of Remedies and Codification of European Private Law’ (forthcoming) European Review of Contract Law Dorota Leczykiewicz ,‘The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Member States’ Derogations from Treaty Obligations’ in P Huber and K Ziegler (eds), The EU and National Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2012) Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Private Party Liability in EU Law: In Search of the General Regime’ (2009-2010) 12 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 257-282 Justine Pila, ‘“Sewing the Fly Buttons on the Statute”: Employee Inventions and the Employment Context’ (forthcoming 2012) 32 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Justine Pila, ‘The Star Wars Copyright Claim: An Ambivalent View of the Empire’ (forthcoming 2012) Law Quarterly Review Justine Pila, ‘Law and the Victorians: Intellectual Property’ (forthcoming 2011) 32 Journal of Legal History [review of Part 5 of Volume XIII of the Oxford History of the Laws of England (Oxford University Press 2010)] Justine Pila, ‘Employee Inventions: Looking Beyond the UK Paradigm’ in M Pittard, A Monotti and J Duns (eds), Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act - Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Competition and Corporate Laws (forthcoming 2011) Justine Pila, ‘Software Patents, Separation of Powers, and Failed Syllogisms: A Cornucopia from the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office’ (2011) 70 Cambridge Law Journal 203–228 Justine Pila, ‘The Future of the European Requirement for an Invention’ in G Ghidini and E Arezzo (eds), Biotechnology and Software Patent Law: A Comparative Review on New Developments (EE 2011) 55–90 Justine Pila, ‘Patents for Genes and Methods of Analysis and Comparison’ (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 534–538 Justine Pila, ‘Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work?’ [2010] European Intellectual Property Review 609-613

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Justine Pila, ‘The Future of the European Requirement for an Invention’ (2010) 41 IIC 906–926 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Sparking Regulatory Competition in European Company Law – The Impact of the Centros Line of Case-law and its Concept of Abuse of Law’ in R de la Feria and S Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law? (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) 107-125 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Is Volkswagen the new Centros? Free Movement of Capital’s Impact on Company Law’ in D Prentice and A Reisberg (eds), Corporate Finance Law: UK and EU Perspectives (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011) 461-492 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Review of Cheffins, Corporate Ownership and Control – British Business Transformed (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008)’ (2011) 12 European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) 173-175 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Review of Zaman, Schwarz, Lennarts, de Kluiver and Dorresteijn (eds), The European Private Company (SPE): A Critical Analysis of the EU Draft Statute (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009)’ (2010) 35 European Law Review 900-901 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Deviations from Ownership-Control Proportionality – Protectionism Revisited’ in U Bernitz and W-G Ringe (eds), Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010) 209-240 (Shorter version in V Magnier (ed), La gouvernance des sociétés cotées face à la crise – Pour une meilleure protection de l’intérêt social (Paris, LGDJ 2010) 167-197) Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Company Law and Free Movement of Capital’ (2010) 69 The Cambridge Law Journal 378-409 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Public Capital and Private Capital in the Internal Market – Securing a Level Playing Field for Public and Private Enterprises’ (UK Report) in GC Rodriguez Iglesias and L Ortiz Blanco (eds), Proceedings of the Fide XXIV Congress Madrid 2010 – Volume III: Public Capital and Private Capital in the Internal Market (Madrid, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Facultad de Derecho Complutense University 2010) 533-573 Wolf-Georg Ringe and John Armour, ‘European Corporate Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis’ (2011) 48 Common Market Law Review 125-174 Wolf-Georg Ringe and A Hellgardt, ‘The International Dimension of Issuer Liability – Liability and Choice of Law from a Transatlantic perspective’ (2011) 31 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 23-60 Wolf-Georg Ringe and M Kettunen, ‘Disclosure Regulation of Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives – An Intentions-Based Approach’ (forthcoming 2012) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (also available at Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36/2011, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1844886) Jure Vidmar, ‘Conceptualising Declarations of Independence in International Law’ (forthcoming 2012) 32(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Jure Vidmar, ‘South Sudan and the International Legal Framework Governing the Emergence and Delimitation of New States’ (forthcoming 2012) 42(3) Texas Journal of International Law

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Jure Vidmar, ‘Norm Conflicts and Hierarchy in International Law: Towards a Vertical International Legal System?’ in E de Wet and J Vidmar (eds), Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012) Jure Vidmar (with Erika de Wet), ‘Introduction’ in ibid Jure Vidmar (with Erika de Wet), ‘Conclusions’ in ibid Jure Vidmar, ‘Kosovo: Unilateral Secession and Multilateral State-Making’ in J Summers (ed), Kosovo: A Precedent? The Declaration of Independence, the Advisory Opinion and Implications for Statehood, Self-Determination and Minority Rights (Leiden, BRILL, 2011) Jure Vidmar, ‘The Kosovo Advisory Opinion Scrutinized’ (2011) 24(2) Leiden Journal of International Law 355–383. Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Der Begriff des Handels- und Wirtschaftsrechts’ [The concept of commercial law and business law] in V Triebel, S Vogenauer et al, Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, 3rd edn (Frankfurt/Main, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft forthcoming December 2011) 1-8 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Quellen des Handels- und Wirtschaftsrechts‘ [Sources of commercial law and business law] in ibid, 9-33 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Besonderheiten des englischen Vertragsrechts‘ [Peculiarities of English contract law] in ibid, 34-98 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘The Prohibition of Abuse of Law: an Emerging Principle of EU Law’ in R de la Feria and S Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law? (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) 521-571 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘What are the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts?’ (2010) 3 Revista Jurídica In-Pactum no 6, 222-23 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Vorsprung durch Technik: Die “deutschsprachigen Zivilrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts” in rechtsvergleichender Perspektive’ [Twentieth century German legal scholarship in a comparative perspective] in S Grundmann and K Riesenhuber (eds), Deutschsprachige Zivilrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts in Berichten ihrer Schüler, vol II (Berlin, de Gruyter 2010) 473-507 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Verzicht auf eine vertragliche Forderung im Europäischen Vertragsrecht und im Recht der internationalen Handelsverträge’ [Release of a contractual right in European contract law and international commercial law] in S Grundmann et al (eds), Festschrift für Klaus J. Hopt zum 70. Geburtstag (Berlin, de Gruyter 2010) 247-267 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘The Oxford Study on Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation’ in C Hodges, S Vogenauer and M Tulibacka (eds), The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2010) 1-184 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Common Frame of Reference and UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: Coexistence, Competition, or Overkill of Softlaw’ (2010) 6 European Review of Contract Law (ERCL) 143-183 (Reprinted in: J Kleineman (ed), A Common Frame of Reference for European Contract Law (Stockholm, Jure Förlag 2011) 155-199)

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Stephen Weatherill, ‘The Limits of Legislative Harmonisation Ten Years after Tobacco Advertising: How the Court’s Case Law has Become a “Drafting Guide”’ (2011) 12 German Law Journal 827-864 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Fitting “Abuse of Rights” into EC Law Governing the Free Movement of Goods and Services’ in R De La Feria and S Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: a New General Principle of EU Law? (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) 49-62 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Interpretation of Directives: the Role of the Court’ in A Hartkamp, M Hesselink, E Hondius, C Mak and E Du Perron (eds), Towards a European Civil Code (Wolters Kluwer, 4th edition, 2011) 185-204 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Union Legislation Relating to the Free Movement of Goods’ in P Oliver (ed), Oliver on Free Movement of Goods in the European Union (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 5th edition, 2010) 427-486 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Fairness, Openness and the Specific Nature of Sport: Does the Lisbon Treaty Change EU Sports Law?’ [2010] 3/4 International Sports Law Journal 11-17 Stephen Weatherill and Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, ‘Remarks from a Comparative and EU Perspective’ in A Colombi Ciacchi and S Weatherill (eds), Regulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe: the Case of Personal Suretyships (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010) 27-41 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Competence and European Private Law’ in C Twigg-Flesner (ed), The Cambridge Companion to European Union Private Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2010) 58-69 Simon Whittaker, ‘The Optional Instrument of European Contract Law and Freedom of Contract’ (2011) European Review of Contract Law 371-398 and (in French) in (2011) Revue des contrats 579-604 Simon Whittaker, ‘Contract Networks, Freedom of Contract and the Restructuring of Privity of Contract’ in F Cafaggi (ed), Contractual Networks, Inter-Firm Cooperation and Economic Growth (London, Edward Elgar 2011) 179-197 Simon Whittaker, ‘Unfair Contract Terms, Unfair Prices and Bank Charges’ (2011) 74 Modern Law Review 106-122 Katja Ziegler, ‘Englisches Wettbewerbsrecht’ [‘English Competition Law’] in V Triebel, E Micheler, S Vogenauer and K Ziegler (eds), Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht [English Commercial and Economic Law] (Frankfurt/Main, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, forthcoming 2011) 327-389 Katja Ziegler, ‘International Law and EU Law: Between Asymmetric Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation’ in A Orakhelashvili (ed), Research Handbook on the Theory of International Law (Cheltenham, Elgar 2011) 268-327 Katja Ziegler, ‘“Abuse of Law” in the Context of Free Movement of Workers’ in R de la Feria and S Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law? (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2011) 295-314

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(c) Other Gerhard Dannemann continues as General Editor of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum and of the German Law Archive. Eric Descheemaeker is the book review editor of the Common Law World Review. Caroline Harvey is General Editor of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Network working paper series. Caroline Harvey is the UK contributor to the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.

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Lectures and Conference Papers (a) Invited Lectures Mark Freedland, Keynote Presentation, Conference on ‘Regulating Decent Work’, ILO, Geneva, July 2011 Mark Freedland, ‘The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations’, Public Lecture, Melbourne Law School, April 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Contemporary Discussions in Comparative Law’, Stockholm, Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, 1 September 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Verbot des Missbrauchs Europäischen Unionsrechts’ [‘The prohibition of abuse of law in European Union law’], Hamburg, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, 28 July 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Geschichte des Unionsrechts als Europäische Rechtsgeschichte’ [‘History of European Union law as European legal history’], Frankfurt/Main, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2 June 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Regulatory Competition in Contract Law’, Lecture series ‘Law as a Product’, Munich, Centre for Advanced Studies, 11 May 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘The Theory and Practice of Using Comparative Law in the Harmonisation of Private Law: the Case of Release of Contractual Rights’, Irish Society of Comparative Law, Annual Autumn Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, 11 November 2010 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘European Contract Law: Commercial Need and Views Across Europe’, London, Clifford Chance LLP, 8 November 2010 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Juristische Zeitgeschichte und Rechtsvergleichung am Beispiel der “Deutschsprachigen Zivilrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts”’ [‘Contemporary legal history and comparative law: the case of the “Twentieth century German speaking teachers of private law”’], Frankfurt/Main, International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History, Lecture series ‘Stand und Perspektiven der juristischen Zeitgeschichte’, 30 June 2010 Stephen Weatherill, ‘The EU’s Porous Trade Law’, delivered as the Institute of European Law Annual Lecture at Birmingham University, Birmingham, November 2010 Stephen Weatherill, ‘Fairness, Openness and the Specific Nature of Sport: Does the Lisbon Treaty Change EU Sports Law?’, delivered as the Asser-Clingendael International Sports Lecture at the Clingendael Institute, organized by the Asser International Sports Law Centre of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, October 2010

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(b) Conference Papers Alexandra Braun, ‘Testamentary Formalities and its Restrictions in French and Italian Law: Trends and Shifts’, 33rd meeting of the German Society of Comparative Law, Trier on ‘Rechtliche Grenzen der Freiheit und Rechtsschutz’, 15-17 September 2011 Alexandra Braun, ‘Trusts in the DCFR: An Italian perspective’, Symposium entitled ‘Book X (Trusts) of the DCFR’, University of Edinburgh, 7 February 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, host and co-chair of the third conference of the DFG-AHRC sponsored research project on ‘The Common Frame of Reference on European Contract Law in the Context of English and German Law’, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 22-24 September 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Is Unjust Enrichment Law an Officious Intermeddler?’, Conference on ‘Restitution and Unjust Enrichment’ on the occasion of the publication of the American Law Institute’s ‘Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment’, Boston University, 16-17 September 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Language and System Neutrality in Legislative Drafting’, Conference on ‘How Far Can We Go? (Fino a che punto il giurista che lavora in contesti internazionali può forzare l’inglese giuridico per esprimere concetti estranei al ‘common law’)’, Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei, Torino, 23 May 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Le cadre général de la responsabilité civile’, Colloquy on ‘Droit français et projets européens en matière de responsabilité civile’, organised by the Groupe de recherche européen sur la responsabilité civile et les assurances (GRERCA), Cour de cassation, Paris, 13 May 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Goodbye to Mr Podsnap, or: The Constitutionalization of Politics in the UK’, Conference on ‘The UK and Germany in a Changing World Order: New Challenges, New Strategies’, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, 27 April 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, co-chair of the Plenary Meeting of the Acquis Group, University of Hull, 3-5 February 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, co-chair of a meeting of the Optional Instrument Group of the Acquis Group, University of Antwerpen, 20-21 January 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, co-chair of the second conference of the DFG-AHRC sponsored research project on ‘The Common Frame of Reference on European Contract Law in the Context of English and German Law’, University of Oxford, 6-8 January 2011 Gerhard Dannemann, host and chair of the 18th meeting of the Redaction Committee of the Acquis Group, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 3-4 December 2010 Gerhard Dannemann, co-chair of a joint workshop with the Department of German Studies, King’s College London, on interdisciplinary research projects, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 4-5 November 2010 Gerhard Dannemann, co-chair of the Plenary Meeting of the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group), University of Ljubljana, 7-9 October 2010

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Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Methodological Issues in the Drafting of European Contract Law’, Conference on ‘Challenges in European Private Law’, University of Ljubljana, 7 October 2010 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Solatium‘, Staff Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, 23 September 2011 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Solatium in Roman and English Law’, International Seminar on ‘Iniuria and the Common Law’, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 9 September 2011 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Quasi-contracts and Unjustified Enrichment in French Law: Some Comparative Remarks’, Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (Restitution Section), University of Cambridge, 7 September 2011 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Rethinking Emotional Wellbeing in the Law of Wrongs’, Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (Comparative Law Section), University of Cambridge, 6 September 2011 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Truth, Defamation and Verbal Injuries: South African Law at the Crossroads?’, Third International Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 21 June 2011 Eric Descheemaeker, ‘The Dangers of Mixing It Up. Some Remarks on Defamation and Truth in Civilian, Common-law and Mixed Jurisdictions’, Conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, University College Dublin, 29 April 2011 (keynote address) Thomas Dietz, ‘Global Contract Enforcement’, ISNIE, Cargese, France, 17 May 2011 Thomas Dietz, ‘The Significance of European Contract Law for Cross-Border Trade’, Conference on ‘Transformations of the State’, University of Oxford, 19 May 2011 Thomas Dietz and Jure Vidmar, organisation of the ‘2nd Transformations of State Conference’ at the University of Oxford, particularly the panel on ‘Transnational and International Law’, 21 May 2011 Mark Freedland, Seminar on Employment Law, New Zealand Crown Law Office, March 2011 Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘The Constitutional Dimension of Private Law Liability Rules in the EU’, Conference on ‘The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships’, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, 28-29 September 2011 Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Facts in English and French Judicial Reasoning in Tort’, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 5-8 September 2011, Comparative Law section Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘The Proof of Causation in Sienkiewicz v Greif: Science, Principle or Policy?’, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Cambridge , 5-8 September 2011, Tort Law section Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Law and Science in the Proof of Causation: Redefining the Boundaries between Law and Fact’, 25th World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 15-20 August 2011, Working Group ‘Scientific Knowledge and Legal Decision’

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Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Codification of European Private Law as a Threat to the Existing Culture of the EU Law of Remedies’, Leicester-Durham Duo-Colloquium ‘Europeanisation of Private Law: Theory and Practice’, University of Leicester, 17-18 December 2010 Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘EU Human Rights as General Principles after Lisbon’, Panel Discussion ‘Human Rights in the EU after Lisbon: The Charter and ECHR Accession’ with Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott and Ms Barbara Havelkova, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, 22 October 2010 Justine Pila, ‘The UK Approach to Employee Inventions’, Monash University Conference on ‘Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act’, Prato, 3 May 2011 Justine Pila, ‘On the European Requirement for an Invention’, LSE Invited Seminar, 23 November 2010 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘The Future of European Shareholder Rights’, University College London, 20 September 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance’, Law and Finance Workshop, Oxford, 7 June 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, Discussant at a Conference on ‘Law as a Product – Regulatory Competition in Bankruptcy Law’, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Centre for Advanced Studies, 24 May 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Gesellschafterstimmrecht und Risikoentkoppelung’, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, 9-10 May 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance’, HEC Paris, 28 April 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance’, Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC), the Netherlands, 15 April 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance’, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya, Israel, 7 April 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, Panel discussant in a Conference on ‘The Litigation Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Financial Services Claims’, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, 25 March 2011 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘English Perspectives on Shareholder Litigation Aiming at Setting Aside Resolutions of the General Meeting’, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 15 December 2010 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Company Law and Free Movement of Capital: Nothing Escapes the ECJ?’, Forum for Company Law and Financial Market Law, University of Copenhagen, 14 December 2010 Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Company Law and Free Movement of Capital: Nothing Escapes the ECJ?’, University of Stockholm Faculty Seminar, Centre for Commercial Law, 6 December 2010

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Wolf-Georg Ringe, National Rapporteur UK at the XXIVth FIDE Conference on ‘Public Capital and Private Capital in the Internal Market. Securing a Level Playing Field for Public and Private Enterprises’, Complutense University, Madrid, 3-6 November 2010 Jure Vidmar, ‘Democratic Legitimacy of Governments in International Law: Practice of States and UN Organs’, Conference on ‘International and Regional Responses to Revolutions in North Africa and Middle East’, Liverpool, 16 September 2011 Jure Vidmar, ‘The International Criminal Court and Gross Human Rights Abuses in Africa’, Panel Moderator, The George Washington Law School–Oxford University International Human Rights Summer Programme, Oxford, 21 July 2011 Jure Vidmar, ‘The International Community (of States) and its Legal System’, Conference on ‘Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, University of Oxford, 21 May 2011 Jure Vidmar, ‘Unilateral Declaration of Independence in International Law’, Conference on States, Peoples and Minorities: Whither the Nation in International Law’, International Law Association British Branch Conference, Sheffield, 28 April 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘The Common Frame of Reference of European Contract Law’, Annual Conference of the British German Jurists Association, London, 25 September 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Conceptualizing Postnational Rulemaking: Comments from the Perspective of Legal History and Transnational Commercial Law’, Workshop on ‘Postnational Rulemaking’, Amsterdam, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 15 September 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Selbstregulierung im Recht der Verträge: England im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert’ [‘Self-regulation in the law of contract: England in late 19th and early 20th century’], Conference on ‘Regulierte Selbstregulierung in der westlichen Welt des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts’ [‘Regulated self-regulation in the Western world of the late 19th and early 20th century’], Frankfurt/Main, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 16 June 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Transnational Law with and Without States’ (Panel Chair), Conference on ‘Transformations of the State’, Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations, 21 May 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Juristische Zeitgeschichte und Rechtsvergleichung am Beispiel der “Deutschsprachigen Zivilrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts”’, [‘Contemporary legal history and comparative law: the case of the “Twentieth century German speaking teachers of private law”’], Rechtshistorisches Wochenende [Legal history weekend], Sehlendorf, 13 May 2011 Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Unification of General Contract Law: the Case of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts’, 1st African Conference on International Commercial Law, Douala (Cameroon), 14 January 2011 Stephen Weatherill, ‘The Role of the EU: Challenges and Opportunities’, Conference on ‘The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships’, organised by the Institute of European and Comparative Law, St Anne’s College, Oxford, September 2011.

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Stephen Weatherill, ‘Does the Lisbon Treaty Change EU Sports Law?’, Seminar on ‘Sports Law in the European Union’, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, March 2011 Stephen Weatherill, ‘From Economic Rights to Fundamental Rights’, Conference on ‘The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the European Union after Lisbon’, organized by the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Jesus College, Oxford, March 2011 Simon Whittaker, ‘Private Law, Civil Procedure and Public Policy: the Example of Unfair Contract Terms’, Conference on ‘The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships’, Oxford, September 2011 Simon Whittaker, ‘Problems of Translation from the Civil Law to the Common Law: the Analytical Structure of Contractual Obligations, Sanctions for Non-performance and Remedies for Breach’, Workshop on ‘Law and Translation’, Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei, Turin, May 2011 Simon Whittaker, ‘The Product Liability Directive and Article 5 Rome II: Full Harmonisation and the Conflict of Laws’, paper presented at the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, January 2011 Katja Ziegler, ‘The Development of a Constitutional Status for Fundamental Rights’, Conference on 'The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the European Union after Lisbon', organized by the Institute of European and Comparative Law Jesus College, Oxford, March 2011 Katja Ziegler, ‘Human Rights as General Principles’, Human Rights in the EU after Lisbon: the Charter and ECHR Accession, Panel Discussion, University of Oxford, October 2010

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Other Staff Activities Anthony Bradley • On 7 April 2011, the Lord Chancellor conferred on him the title of Queen’s Counsel

honoris causa

• Gave written and oral evidence to the House of Lords Committee on the Constitution: The Fixed term Parliaments Bill (HL Committee on the Constitution, 8th report 2010-12, HL Paper 69) evidence pp 1-12 (following earlier evidence to the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: see that Committee’s 2nd Report 2010-12, HC 436, Ev 48-50.)

• Gave written and oral evidence to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee: The EU Bill and Parliamentary Sovereignty (HC European Scrutiny Committee, 10th report of 2010-12, HC 633-i and ii)

• Gave written and oral evidence to the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges: Privilege: Hacking of Members’ mobile phones (HC Committee on Standards and Privileges, 14th report 2010-12, HC 628), Ev 8-16, 32-35

• Took part in seminar on constitutional change held by the House of Lords Committee

on the Constitution, 16 March 2011: see The Process of Constitutional Change (HL Committee on the Constitution, 15th report 2010-12, HL Paper 177), App 4

Hugh Beale • Member of the Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of

European contract law established by the European Commission. Alexandra Braun • Visiting Associate Professor at the International University College of Turin Dorota Leczykiewicz • Member of a research group which prepared a comparative report on recoverability

of immaterial damage in European contract law, individually responsible for English and Scottish law, report completed in March 2011, awaiting publication in a book edited by Professor Vernon Palmer for Cambridge University Press

• Awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to be held in the

Faculty of Law, Oxford

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Justine Pila • Co-organised (with Professor Graeme Dinwoodie) a conference on “Comparative

Perspectives on Protecting Products by Patents” held on 4 December 2010. Papers were given by Mr Justice Christopher Floyd (HCJ), Mr Daniel Alexander QC (of Counsel, HCJ), Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU) and Professor Toshiko Takenaka (Washington). There were approximately 50 attendees (mainly practitioners).

Georg Ringe • Visiting Professor of Law, IDC Herzliyah, Israel in March and April 2011 • Advisor to the European Parliament on questions of European company law as part of

a European-wide consortium of academics, led by the European Centre for Comparative Commercial & Company Law (C-Law) at the University of Krakow, Poland. Current project: ‘Which initiatives and instruments at EU level could enhance legal certainty in the field of corporate governance?’

• National Rapporteur for English law in a comparative law project on shareholder

litigation against resolutions of the general meeting, organised by Professor Holger Fleischer, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany

Stefan Vogenauer • Professor Extraordinary, University of Stellenbosch, 2011-14 Simon Whittaker • Professeur Invité, Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II), March 2011

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Outside Funding • DFG/AHRC funded project on “The Common Frame of Reference on European

contract law in the context of English and German law”, held jointly with the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

• European Commission, Marie Curie Fellowship held by Dr Geneviève Helleringer,

project on “Differences in European Legal Cultures”; mentor: Professor Stefan Vogenauer

• Nuffield Foundation grant to fund a project on “The use of optional instruments in

European contract law” • British Academy, funding for conference on “The Involvement of EU Law in Private

Law Relationships” • Volkswagen Foundation, funding the Anglo-German “State of the State” Postdoctoral

Fellowship programme, held jointly with the University of Bremen, the University of Göttingen and the Department of Politics, Oxford

• UK Centre for Legal Education, funding for a project with the Statute Law Society on

“Teaching of Legislation” • Modern Law Review, funding for conference on ‘Iniuria and the Common Law’ • Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP, funding for 2011 Oxford French Law Moot • Consiglio Nazionale Forense (Italian Bar Council), funding to facilitate the reception

of four Italian lawyers to the Institute each year • Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, funding to establish the Stockholm Centre

Oxford Fellowship • Association Sorbonne-Oxford pour le droit comparé, funding for publication of French

version of Cartwright, Vogenauer and Whittaker on the Avant-projet Catala • Clifford Chance LLP, ongoing annual funding for the administration of Course 2 • DAAD, ongoing funding for the DAAD Lectureship • The Wallenberg Foundation, ongoing funding for Professor Bernitz and events

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Events Organised by the Institute “The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships” 28-29 September 2011, St Anne’s College, Oxford Organised by: Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz and Professor Stephen Weatherill

Funded by: The British Academy, Oxford Law Faculty and the Institute of European and Comparative Law

Speakers: Professor Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Professor Monica Claes (Maastricht), Professor Michael Dougan (Liverpool), Professor Gareth Davies (VU Amsterdam), Professor Martijn Hesselink (Amsterdam), Dr Okeoghene Odudu (Cambridge), Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz (Oxford), Mr Angus Johnston (Oxford), Professor Mark Freedland (Oxford), Professor Norbert Reich (Bremen), Professor Simon Whittaker (Oxford), Professor Peter Rott (Copenhagen), Professor Daniela Caruso (Boston), Dr Vanessa Mak (Tilburg), Professor Hugh Collins (LSE)

Number of Participants: 69 “Iniuria and the Common Law” 9-10 September 2011, All Souls College, Oxford Organised by: Dr Eric Descheemaeker and Professor Helen Scott

Funded by: The Modern Law Review

Speakers: Professor John Blackie (Strathclyde), Professor Jonathan Burchell (Cape Town), Dr Eric Descheemaeker (Edinburgh), Dr Francois du Bois (Nottingham), Professor Anton Fagan (Cape Town), Professor David Ibbetson (Cambridge), Professor Paul Mitchell (UCL), Professor Kenneth Norrie (Strathclyde), Dr Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh), Professor Helen Scott (Cape Town), Professor Boudewijn Sirks (Oxford)

Number of Participants: 20 (by invitation only) “Trends in Retail Competition: Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy”, 7th Symposium on Competition Amongst Retailers and Suppliers 3 June 2011, St Catherine’s College, Oxford Organised by: Professor Ulf Bernitz, Dr Ariel Ezrachi and Mr John Noble

Funded by: Bristows

Speakers: Professor Ulf Bernitz (Oxford and Stockholm), Mr Jean-Jacques Vandenheede (AC Nielsen), Mr Robin Noble (OXERA), Dr Frank Bunte (Wageningen University), Mr Javier Berasategi (Berasategi & Abogados), Dr Peter Davis (Competition Commission), Mr Robert Steiner (American Antitrust Institute), Ms Deborah Prince (Which?), Mr Marek Lysy (European Commission), Mr John Harold (formerly Combe International), Mr Manuel Sebastiao (Portuguese Competition Authority), Ms Anna Corazza Bildt (MEP)

Number of Participants: 86 (mainly by invitation)

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“Competition Law and the Pharmaceutical Industry” 17 May 2011, St Catherine’s College, Oxford Organised by: Dr Ariel Ezrachi

Funded by: The Wallenberg Foundation and the Centre for Competition Law and Policy

Speakers: Dr Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford), Mr Mark Williams (NERA), Ms Helen Jenkins (OXERA), Mr Dominik Schnichels (European Commission), Mr Geoffrey Steadman (OFT), Mr Hugh Hollman (Federal Trade Commission), Ms Pat Treacy (Bristows), Mr Michael Carrier (Rutgers), Ms Julia Pike (Sandoz), Greg Perry (European Generic Medicines Association), Elisabeth Eklund (Advokatfirman Delphi), Steve Shadowen (Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin), Ian Karet (Linklaters), Sir Christopher Bellamy (Linklaters), Mr Simon Priddis (Freshfields), Mr John Schmidt (Shepherd and Wedderburn), Dr Graeme Dinwoodie (Oxford), Professor Hans Henrik Lidgard (Lund)

Number of Participants: 65 Special Lecture: “Judicial Legislation by the ECJ. How Much Judicial Activism?” 13 May 2011, Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building Organised by: The EU Law Discussion Group

Funded by: The Wallenberg Foundation

Speaker: Dr John Temple Lang (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton), and discussion chaired by Professor Ulf Bernitz (Oxford and Stockholm)

Number of Participants: 35 Fourth Oxford French Law Moot 14 March 2011, Law Faculty and St Catherine’s College Organised by: Dr Eric Descheemaeker

Funded by Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP 16 teams from Warwick (2 teams), Florence (2 teams), Birmingham (2 teams), King’s College London (2 teams), University College Dublin (2 teams), Oxford, Madrid, Cologne and University College London “The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU After Lisbon” 11 March 2011, Jesus College, Oxford Organised by: Professor Sybe de Vries, Professor Ulf Bernitz, Professor Stephen Weatherill

Funded by: The Wallenberg Foundation

Speakers: Professor Sacha Prechal (European Court of Justice and Utrecht), Professor Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Professor Catherine Barnard (Cambridge), Professor Sybe de Vries (Utrecht), Professor Ulf Bernitz (Stockholm and Oxford), Mr Martin Mörk (Öberg & Associés), Professor Xavier Groussot

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(Lund), Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Oxford), Professor Iain Cameron (Uppsala), Dr Katja Ziegler (Oxford)

Number of Participants: 73 In addition to the above, the Institute organizes the meetings of the EU Law Discussion Group and the Comparative Law Discussion Group. Forthcoming Events “European Legal Culture” 16 December 2011, Trinity College, Oxford Organised by: Dr Genevieve Helleringer and Kai Purnhagen Funded by: Thyssen Stiftung “European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law” 7-8 January 2012, Oxford Organised by: Dr Justine Pila and Professor Ansgar Ohly Speakers: Mr Daniel Alexander QC (of Counsel, HCJ), Mr Justice Richard Arnold (HCJ),

Judge Joachim Bornkamm (Federal Supreme Court of Germany), Professor Jan Brinkhof (Utrecht), Professor Graeme Dinwoodie (Oxford), Lord Leonard Hoffmann (Oxford), Professor Bernt Hugenholz (Amsterdam), Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen (CJEU), Professor Sir Robin Jacob (UCL), Mrs Justice Fidelma Macken (Supreme Court of Ireland), Professor Ansgar Ohly (Bayreuth & Oxford), Dr Justine Pila (Oxford), Professor Jan Smits (Maastricht), Mr Alain Strowel (of Counsel)

Fifth French Law Moot 12 March 2012 Organised by: Dr Eric Descheemaeker and Professor Stefan Vogenauer “Legal Challenges Arising out of the Financial Crisis”, Oxford-Munich conference 23-24 March 2012, Oxford Organised by: Dr Georg Ringe and Professor Dr Peter Huber Funded by: LMU Munich “Buyer Power” 15 May 2012, St Catherine’s College, Oxford Organised by: Dr Ariel Ezrachi

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Visitors to the Institute The Institute hosted the following academic visitors in 2010-2011:

Professor Iciar Alzaga (Madrid)

Dr Marco Bellezza (Italian Bar Council (CNF) Visiting Fellow)

Professor William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws, Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Giacomo Bugliani (Italian Bar Council (CNF) Visiting Fellow)

Professor Rafael Colina (La Coruna)

Dr Noemi Corso (Italian Bar Council (CNF) Visiting Fellow)

Dr Mirko Faccioli (Verona)

Professor Eduardo Gamero (Pablo de Olavide)

Mr Piers Gardner (Monckton Chambers)

Mr Alessandro di Gio (Rome) (CCLP Visiting Associate)

Professor Carmen Jerez (Autonoma Madrid)

Professor Elena Martinez (Valencia)

Dr Valentina Moscon (Italian Bar Council (CNF) Visiting Fellow)

Mr Anestis Papadopoulos (Athens) (CCLP Visiting Associate)

Dr Oreste Pollicino (Bocconi)

Dr Cristina Popa Nistorescu (Craiova)

Ms Sarai Rodrigues (La Laguna)

Professor Anne Röthel (Bucerius Law School)

Dr Robert Schütze (Durham)

Dr Constanze Semmelmann (Fribourg)

Professor Dirk Verse (Osnabrück)

Professor Reinhard Zimmermann (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)