Towards a Unified System of Land Burdens?

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-90-5095-585-0
Verlag: Intersentia Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: IUS Commune: European and Comparative Law Series

This book is the result of a comparative law conference on land burdens, which was held at the University of Maastricht in 2005, under the auspices of the research school Ius Commune. At the heart of the conference was the question, whether the law on land burdens (such as servitudes and qualitative duties) can be unified. Various legal systems were discussed: Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland and the United States. The leading theme was whether civil law systems can learn from the Anglo-American experience. Particularly the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Property, Servitudes offers an interesting model for unification.

This book contains the collected contributions to the conference. Most of the contributions discuss national legal systems. Furthermore, land burdens are discussed from a law and economics perspective. Also the question is asked whether the law on servitudes could also apply to chattels and could even be applied within the context of the Internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Erp, Sjef

Akkermans, Bram

Über Autor(innen)

Van Erp, Sjef
Professeur de droit civil et de droit privé européen, Université de Maastricht.

Akkermans, Bram
Bram Akkermans studied at the European Law School, University of Maastricht (2002) and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. After his study he was program developer and lecturer in international and European law at the Institute of Marketing Management, Fontys University in Eindhoven, PhD student (junior researcher) at Maastricht University, and since 2008 Assistant Professor of European private law.
His thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Mr. j.h.m. van Erp, concerns the closed system of property rights (numerus clausus) in Europe and was published in 2008 under the title 'The principle of numerus clausus in European property law'.
His research focuses on the development of European law on the national private law, in particular property law. He teaches comparative and European property law, contract law and liability law.
He is training coordinator of the European Law School (bachelor studies) in Maastricht and Deputy Director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI). Since 2012 he is also ' invited fellow' at the South African Research Chair in Property Law at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.