Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF) 2018
Maastricht University, the Netherlands
(program subject to change)
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Van Eyck Academy, Academieplein 1, 6211 KM Maastricht, the Netherlands
Sunday 27 May 2018
19:00 – Informal meeting for those already in Maastricht. Meeting place: front of the Law Faculty Building, Bouillonstraat 1-3, 6212 LH Maastricht
Monday 28 May 2018
9.00-9.10 Opening Bram Akkermans and Jill Robbie
Session 1 – Fundamental Rights and Property Law
Chair:Dr. Bram Akkermans
9.10 - 9.40 Douglas Maxwell - Reconsidering Socio-Economic Rights and Land Law
9.40 - 10.10 DorinaNdreka - The Influence of International Law in the Property Right in Albania
10.10 - 10.40 Abigail Jackson - Dispossession: Examining the Rights of the Excluded
Session 2 – Sustainability and Property Law
Chair:Dr. Jill Robbie
10.40 - 11.10 Johan van de Voorde - ‘Accidental’ environmental property law in Belgium, France and Germany: the prohibition of neighbourhood disturbances as protection for the environment
11.10 - 11.40 Maya Reynebeau - Property Usage Rights in the Development of Heat Networks
11.40 - 11.55Benjamin Verheye - Circular Economy and Property Law
11:55-12:10 Valerie Tweehuysen - Circular Economy and Property Law
12:10-12:20 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Round table on sustainability and property law – Jill Robbie and Bram Akkermans
Session 3 – Reforming Property Doctrine
Chair:Dr. Bjorn Hoops
15.00 - 15.30 Sander Baeyens - The distinction between property rights and personal rights from the perspective of insolvency law: a law and economics approach
15.30 - 16.00 Alisdair MacPherson - The Reform of Security over Moveable Property in Scots Law
16.00 - 16.30 Tiddo Bos - Trading candy 2.0; the takeover of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
Session 4 – Religion and Property Law
Chair: Dr. Bram Akkermans
16.30 - 17.00 Katja Zimmermann - Bona Ecclesiastica – A Paradox?
19.30 - Dinner
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Session 5 – Technological Challenges to Property Law
Chair: Dr. Rafael Ibarra Garza
09.00-09.30 Alton Samuels - The proprietary status of mobile data in South African law: A constitutional property law perspective
09.30-10.00 Simon Geiregat - Civil-law ownership of digital data
10.00-10.30 Zhicheng Wu - Title to Money on the Verge of a Cashless Society
10.30-10.50 Break
Session 6 – Land Registration and Property
Chair: Dr. Anna Berlee
10.50-11.20 Maria Kaczorowska - Innovations in land registration
and their impact on cross-border conveyancing in Europe
11.20-11.50 Michael Arthur - Publicity and Privacy in Land Registration in Scotland
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (Van Eyck Academy)
Session 7 – Exclusion and Use
Chair: Dr. Caroline Rupp
13.00-13.30 Tom Booms - Adding sticks to a bundle: government-imposed modifications to property
13.30-14.00 Lizette Grobler - The role of the bare owner in enabling fulfilment of the salva rei substantia requirement
14.00-14.30 Charlotte Willemot - A Belgian perspective on the introduction of commonhold in England and Wales
14.30-15.00 PriviledgeDhliwayo - The consensual grant of use rights to non-owners
Session 8 – Fundamental Concepts of Property
Chair: Dr. Wian Erlank
15.00-15.30 Siel Demeyere - Transfer and abandonment of property rights: effect on liability for real obligations?
15.30-16.00 Caroline Rupp - Defining “things” by party autonomy – limits, consequences, challenges and possibilities
16.00-16.30 NicholasTagliarino - Adopting International Standards on Expropriation, Compensation, and Resettlement
Session 9 – EU Property Law
Chair: Prof. Dr. Sjef van Erp
16.30-17.00 Flavius Boar - European Neutrality over Property Ownership -
Achilles Heel of the Internal Market?
17:00-17:30 Astrid Millung-Christoffersen - The impact of a Europeanisation of property law
17.30 closing and announcement of YPLF 2019 - Bram Akkermans and Jill Robbie
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The YPLF 2018 is organized at Maastricht University with financial support from the UM-FUND/SWOL and the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University.