News from CEPRI

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The latest issue of the Nordic law journal Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap (issue 5/2021) includes an article concerning the capability of private actors to bring a civil action to enforce public law against other private actors.

With a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship Grant of almost DKK 5 million and the project PurpLE Associate Professor Marta Andhov will provide needed clarity on the tension between public procurement law and private law.

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Associate Professor Marta Andhov received a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark for International Research stay at the University of Western Australia Law School. This grant will support her research efforts in the field of visual contracting in public procurement law.

On Monday, August 16, the Faculty of Law lost a good colleague after a long illness.  Steen passed away much too early, at the age of only 55.  

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).