Working Teams

Composition

Each Working Team is based at one or more higher education institutions in the Member States and is composed of at least one professor, often supported by one or more senior researchers fulfilling a team or sub-team managerial role, and a number of junior researchers. This breadth of staffing, supplemented by the assistance of its panel of Advisors, contributes ideally to each Working Team commanding research competence in all or nearly all jurisdictions of the Member States.

Advisory Councils

Working Teams are additionally supported by the assistance of a panel of Advisors. These are national experts in the field of private law under review who meet at regular intervals with the Working Teams to advise on the preparation of the Position Papers. Besides offering their specialist insight into the material, they also help prevent at the outset any narrowing of perspective along national or jurisdictional lines. Advisors are also invited to attend and participate fully in the meetings of the Coordinating Group when that Group is scrutinising Position Papers for which the Advisors have given their assistance.

Existing and prospective Working Teams

The existing and prospective Working Teams which are part of the Study Group are:

The Working Team on Sales, Services and Long-term Contracts

Sub-team on Long-term contracts
Prof. Martijn Hesselink
Long-term contracts: commercial agency, distribution and franchising contracts

Sub-team on Services
Prof. Maurits Barendrecht
Supply of services

Sub-team on Sales
Prof. Ewoud Hondius
Sale of goods

The Working Team on Financial Services
Prof. Laurent Aynès
Prof. André Prüm
Financial services

The Working Team on Credit Securities
Prof. Drobnig
Law of personal securities (sureties)
Security interests in moveables

The Working Team on Extra-Contractual Obligations
Prof. Christian von Bar
Tort law
Negotiorum gestio
Law of unjustified enrichments

The Working Team on Rental of Movable Property
Prof. Kåre Lilleholt
Rental of movable property

The Working Team on Transfer of Moveable Property
Prof. Brigitta Lurger, Prof. Johannes Rainer and Prof. Willibald Posch
Transfer of property in moveables

The Working Team on Trust Law
Dr. Stephen Swann
Trust law

Associate Teams

The Study Group works in cooperation with the following associate teams:

Project Group on a Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law
Prof. Fritz Reichert-Facilides
Insurance contract law