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  • Ifat Naftali Ben Zion

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory


Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory Workshop

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Mittelweg 187, 20148 Hamburg, Germany

June 30 - July 1, 2023


With papers ranging over topics as diverse as deliberative property, corrective justice, fiduciary law’s foundations, and coherence across legal domains—among many others—the latest installment in the Oxford Studies series, which will appear in 2024, will be a worthy successor to the first two volumes.

Learn more about the series here: https://lnkd.in/ehNptBbc.



Thursday, June 29

6:30 p.m.

Conference dinner


Friday, June 30

8:30 - 9 a.m. Light breakfast


9 - 9:15 a.m. Introductions


9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Ralf Michaels, Sustainable Private Law Theory


10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Henry Smith, Entitlements to Things in a Complex World


11:15 - 11:30 a.m. Break


11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Marietta Auer, Modern Property


12:30 - 2 p.m. Lunch (on-site)


2 - 3 p.m. Colin Bradley, Corrective Justice Without Private Law


3 - 4 p.m. Yifat Naftali Ben Zion,

The Underlying Conceptions of Fiduciary Law


6:30 p.m. Conference dinner


Saturday, July 1

8:30 - 9 a.m. Light breakfast


9 - 9:15 a.m. Introductions


9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Irina Sakharova, Contract as Expectation and the Puzzle of Present Exchange


10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Dan Wielsch, The Political Autonomy of Property


11:15 - 11:30 a.m. Break


11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Matt Dyson, Private Coherence: Co-ordination, Sequencing, and Subjugation in Legal Reasoning


12:30 - 2 p.m. Lunch (on-site)


2 - 3 p.m. Rachael Walsh, Deliberative Property: Assessing its Potential and Legitimacy


3 - 4 p.m. Mateusz Grochowski, The Knowledge Gap in Contract Law












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