News from CEPRI

CEPRI welcomes Léonard Van Rompaey as new Industrial Postdoctoral Researcher. His project is entitled “Private Governance for Responsible and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence”.

CEPRI welcomes Wendy Meng as new PhD student from 1 September 2020.

Dr Sorcha MacLeod, Marie Curie Fellow and Associate Professor in CEPRI, has been selected to participate in the prestigious UCPH Forward programme 2020-21.

Maxim Usynin defended his PhD thesis on the promotion of responsible business conduct in international investment law.

Associate Professor Marta Andhov is part of the Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National Systems (SAPIENS), which have been awarded a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (ITN) grant of €3.9 million.

The latest issue of the European Review of Private Law (Issue 2/2020, published by Wolters Kluwer) includes the paper Private Governance and the Potential of Private Law, written by professors and co-founders of CEPRI Ole Hansen, Clement Salung Petersen and Vibe Ulfbeck.

CEPRI welcomes Aslı Arda as a new postdoctoral researcher from 1 May 2020.

The recently published issue 16(1) of the European Review of Contract Law includes the article "Sustainability Clauses in an unsustainable Contract Law?" written by professor Vibe Ulfbeck and professor Ole Hansen.

In the autumn of 2019, 120 researchers, engineers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and civil servants met at the Law, Technology and Trust conference at the Faculty of Law on Amager. 48 speakers came from 16 different countries to air their ideas as to how the digitalisation of our society affects us. Now you can find podcasts with three of the conference's main speakers.  

Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of law, has issued a call for papers on legal challenges created by digital platforms as private governance systems for its inaugural conference.

Advocate General Szpunar recently delivered his Opinion in case C-641/18 (Rina), which includes several references to research by professor Vibe Ulfbeck (head of CEPRI) and Anders Møllmann on public function liability of classification societies, which was published in the book “Certification – Trust, Accountability, Liability” (Springer 2019).

Årligt udklækkes 290 nye start-up-virksomheder med afsæt fra Københavns Universitet. Det Juridiske Fakultet bidrager til at klæde studerende på til at blive en aktiv del af det danske iværksættermiljø.

Silvia Adamo receives the Carlsberg Foundation's "Young Researcher" grant. The grant is awarded to younger, newly hired associate professors with particularly visionary research ideas and projects.

Professor Yoshifumi Tanaka (CEVIA) published the second edition of the book on the international law of maritime delimitation, entitled Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation, from Hart Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom.

New cross-disciplinary book on Life-Cycle Costing for Sustainability

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Research shows unclear pathways to access to justice in the European Union

Assistant professor Marta Andhov has published chapter on: “Contracting authorities and strategic goals of public procurement – a relationship defined by discretion?”

CEVIA published a book on Law and Responsible Supply Chain Management.

CEVIA published the research output of its international conference ”The Responsible Consumer in the Digital Age. International and Nordic Perspectives on Consumer Financial Protection”, in a special issue of Tilburg Law Review.

Cătălin Stănescu has contributed with five Articles to the recent Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty, edited by Prof. Rafael Leal- Arcas and published by Edward Elgar.