ANNOUNCEMENT

The Ius Commune Prize 2004

EUR 1,200

The Board of the Ius Commune Research School has decided, following the great success of the last three years, to award the Ius Commune Prize again this year. 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. S. Jansen (Universiteit Maastricht), Dr. M. Loos (Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr. J.M. Milo (Universiteit Utrecht), Prof. J.M. Smits (Universiteit Maastricht) and Prof. K. Deketelaere (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

Requirements:

• The article is to be submitted by a PhD student or by a 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. This implies that the submission must deal with either comparative law or the harmonisation or unification of national legal systems in Europe.
• The article is to be written in Dutch, English, German or French. Six printed copies of the article are to be submitted.
• Articles already published elsewhere are allowed to compete provided they were not published more than one year before the year preceding the Prize.
• Candidates are allowed to submit only one article.
• 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 the opinion of the jury members, no article of sufficient quality has been submitted.
• The jury may decide to select other outstanding articles to be honourably mentioned.
• The jury may decide, with the authors’ consent, to have the most outstanding articles published.
• Articles are to be submitted before 18 September 2004. Candidates will be informed of the final decision of the jury at the next annual Ius Commune Conference and on the Ius Commune website.

Winners of the Prize in previous years are excluded from participation a second time.
Candidates are kindly requested to send a covering letter with their article clearly stating that the article is to be regarded as a submission for the Ius Commune Prize.
Articles will not be returned. Candidates should therefore retain a copy of the original article.

Please address articles and enquiries to:
Mrs M. Mullers
Ius Commune Prize
Maastricht University, METRO
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 43 3883207
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 Universiteit Maastricht, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Utrecht and Universiteit van Amsterdam. The School was established in 1995 and was formally recognised by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. The School accommodates about 200 researchers and senior researchers and 110 research fellows (PhD students). Apart from the researchers of the four cooperating faculties, the School has admitted individual members of the law faculties of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Université de Liège among its members.

The Research School facilitates its individual 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 theory (policy) and practice of international processes of integration, and to what extent is transnational integration of legal systems dependent of the commonalities among the national legal systems (ius commune)?
2. What positive or negative effects may transnational integration have upon the commonalities among the national legal systems and the autonomy of national legal cultures?
3. To what extent can the principles of democracy and 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.1.H Intellectual Property (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 (associated programme)

II. Ius Commune and Public Law

II.1 Comparative Constitutional and Administrative Law

II.2 Constitutional Processes in Europe

II.3 Constitutional Processes in the International Legal Order