Universitat Rovira i Virgili

PROGRAM

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