ANNOUNCEMENT

The Ius Commune Prize

1,200 Euro

The Board of the Ius Commune Research School has decided, after careful and ample consideration, to create the Ius Commune Prize. The prize will be awarded to the PhD student or starting researcher who submitted an article of outstanding quality. Other outstanding articles will be honourably mentioned.

The jury will consist of Dr. J.M. Milo (Utrecht University), Prof. Dr. J.M. Smits (Maastricht University) and Prof. Dr. S. Stijns (Catholic University of Leuven).

Requirements:

• The article is to be submitted by a PhD student or a starting researcher (within two years from defending his or her PhD thesis). Submission is open to all such students and researchers.
• The article must fall within the scope of the Ius Commune Research School.
• The article is to be written in Dutch, English or French. Three printed copies of the article are to be submitted.
• Articles already published elsewhere are allowed to compete provided they were not published before the year preceding the Prize.
• The jury may decide to award the Prize to two or more candidates. In this case, the Prize money will be divided equally.
• The jury may decide not to award the Prize if, in their opinion, no article of sufficient quality has been submitted.
• The jury may decide to select other outstanding papers to be honourably mentioned.
• The jury may decide, with the authors’ consent, to have the most outstanding papers published.
• Articles are to be submitted before 21 September 2001. Candidates will be informed of the final decision of the jury before the next annual Ius Commune Conference.

Candidates are kindly requested to send a covering letter with their article clearly stating that the article is to be regarded as submitted for the Ius Commune Prize.

Articles will not be returned. Candidates should therefore retain a copy of the original article.

Articles and enquiries should be addressed to:

Ms. P. Vranken
Ius Commune Prize
Maastricht University, METRO
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 43 3883230
Fax: +31 43 3259091
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.rechten.unimaas.nl/ozic

The Ius Commune Research School

The Ius Commune Research School is a cooperation of the Law Faculties of Maastricht University, the Catholic University of Leuven and Utrecht University. The School was established in 1995 and was formally recognised by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1998. The School consists of about 120 (senior) researchers and 65 research fellows (PhD students). Apart from the researchers of the three founding Faculties, the School has admitted individual staff members of the Law Faculties of the Vrije Universiteit, the Universteit van Amsterdam and the Université de Liège among its members.

The Research School facilitates its members’ research and promotes cooperation among members. In addition, the School is responsible for the PhD programme.

The Research School’s Focus

The Ius Commune Research School aims at facilitating high-level legal research in the field of international and transnational legal processes. Three different sets of problems are addressed by the School’s researchers:

1. What is the role of the law in the theory (policy) and practice of international processes of integration, and to what extent is transnational integration of legal systems dependent of the commonalities of the national legal systems (ius commune)?

2. What positive or negative effects may transnational integration have upon the commonalities of the national legal systems and the autonomy of national legal cultures?

3. To what extent can the principles of democracy and the Rechtsstaat (the Rule of Law) serve as guidelines in the process of transnational integration? This question is approached from both a public law perspective (democracy and Rechtsstaat as foundations of a ius commune) and a private law perspective (the impact of human rights on private law).

Research programmes

I. Ius Commune and Private Law

I.1 European Private Law

I.1.A The Foundations of Private Law

I.1.B Contract Law and the Law of Obligations in General

I.1.C Family Law

I.1.D Consumer Law

I.1.E Property Law

I.1.F Comparative Building Law (associated programme)

I.1.G The Principles of European Civil Procedure (associated programme)

I.2 Liability and Insurance

I.3 Transnational Environmental Law

I.4 Companies in Europe

I.4.A Corporate Bodies in Europe

I.4.B Fiscal Problems in the Internal Market

II. Ius Commune and Public Law (associated programme)