III International Seminar on rights in rem in the European Union: Conflict of Laws on rights in rem in the EU: status quo and proposals for the future
THURSDAY - April 4, 2024
14:30h Welcome - Coffee
15:00h Welcome by Maria Font i Mas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Co-director of the research project PID2020-112609GB-I0) and by Carmen Gómez Buendía, Vice-Rectorate for Doctoral Studies and the CRAI (URV).
15:20h First panel: PIL of rights in rem in the U.S. and the European Union
Moderator: Diana Marín Consarnau, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
15:30h Christopher A. Whytock, Irvine School of Law, University of California (U.S.) [on-line]
Choice of Law for Property Issues: The Approach of the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws
15:50h Marta Pertegás Sender, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Exclusive Jurisdiction Rule: 'Reflexive Effect' Ruled Out At Last?
16:10h Discussion
16:20h Second panel: Proposals for an EU Regulation on applicable law in the field of rights in rem
Moderator: Cristina González Beilfuss, Universitat de Barcelona
16:30h Francisco J. Garcimartín Alférez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
GEDIP Proposal on the law applicable to rights in rem: selected issues
16:50h Eva-Maria Kieninger, Julius-Maximilians- Universität Würzburg (Germany)
A comparative analysis of international property law and the different proposals for a European regulation
17:10h Discussion
17:30h Third panel: Questions on the law applicable to the rights in rem
Moderator: Ilaria Pretelli, Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé
17:40h Afonso Patrâo, Universidade de Coimbra; Judge at the Constitutional Court (Portugal)
Choice of the applicable law to mortgages
18:00h Pietro Franzina, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore de Milano (Italy)
The impact of overriding mandatory provisions on the operation of conflict-of-laws rules relating to rights in rem
18:20h Ivana Kunda, University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Adaptation of Rights in Rem in EU Private International Law
18:40h Gilles Cuniberti, University of Luxemburg
Change of situs and applicable law to security interests (conflit mobile).
19:00h Jonathan Schenk, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Drafting a European Choice-of-Law Rule for Property Rights in Means of Transport: Something Old, Something New
19:10h Sabrina Ferrazzi, University of Verona (Italy)
Proprietary rights over cultural objects in a global world
19:20h Janeen Carruthers, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
Cultural Property - A Private international Law Perpective
19:30h Discussion
20:00h End of the session
FRIDAY - April 5, 2024
9:00h Coffee
9:30h Fourth panel: Challenges of the rights in rem in the digital era
Moderator: Beatriz Añoveros Terradas, Universitat de Barcelona
9:40h Ilaria Pretelli, Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Switzerland)
The private property of Platforms Users in Digital Spaces form a Conflict of laws perspective
10:00h Silvana Canales Gutiérrez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Pledge on cryptoassets, problems of legal qualification and application of private international law rules.
10:20h Guillermo Palao Moreno, Universitat de València
Online Land Registries and the EU cross-border circulation of Land Registry digital documents
10:40h Birgit van Houtert, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
An EU conflict-of-laws approach to proprietary aspects of intellectual property rights
10:50h Discussion
11:20h Fifth panel (I): Cuestiones particulares de las normas de DIPr de los derechos reales (specific issues of the rules of PIL of rights in rem)
Moderator: Albert Font i Segura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
11:30h Vésela Andreeva, Universitat de Barcelona
Derechos de propiedad sobre criptoactivos y conflicto de leyes
11:50h Iván Heredia Cervantes, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Tratamiento de las garantías reales en la normativa internacional de la Ley Concursal española
12:10h Briseida Sofía Jiménez-Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Constitución de garantías sobre criptoactivos: problemas de ley aplicable.
12:20h Nerea Magallón Elósegui, Universidad del País Vasco
La Aplicación de la Ley 5/2019, de contratos de créditos inmobiliarios, a las garantías hipotecarias en España sujetas a préstamos extranjeros
12:30h Discussion
12:50h Fifth panel (II): Cuestiones particulares de las normas de DIPr de los derechos reales (specific issues of the rules of PIL of rights in rem)
Moderator: Ángel Serrano de Nicolás, Notary public in Barcelona and Civil law professor Universitat Pompeu Fabra
13:00h Josep Maria Fontanellas Morell, Universitat de Lleida
Ley aplicable a los bienes en tránsito: ¿algo nuevo en perspectiva?
13:20h Carmen Parra Rodríguez, Universitat Abat Oliba
Análisis de la jursiprudencia registral en España en materia de derechos reales: algunos casos de interés
13:40h Rosa Miquel Sala, Universität Bayreuth (Germany)
Bienes culturales en derecho interregional español
14:00 Discussion and end of the seminar