Description

The workshop examines the ways that private law and public law intersect — for example, how does private law interact with fundamental rights; how does the private law interact with the constitution — i.e., the foundational laws of the polity?

About The Speaker

Hugh Collins is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously he was Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics (LSE) 1991-2013, and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He studied law at Oxford and Harvard. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has served on the editorial committee of The Modern Law Review since 1991, including a period General Editor, and is co-founder of the European Review of Contract Law. Recent book publications include A European Civil Code: The Way Forward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Employment Law 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010); Networks as Connected Contracts ( by Gunther Teubner) Edited with an introduction 1-72 pp (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011); and Labour Law (CUP, Law in Context Series, 2012) with K.D. Ewing and Aileen McColgan.

Chantal Mak is a Professor of Private law, in particular fundamental rights and private law, at the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law and director of the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on the constitutional legal framework for private law in Europe and the influence of constitutional law (including fundamental rights) on private law matters, with a special interest for the role of the judiciary in European private law.