Research subject General Private Law
General private law is the part of the legal system which involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts and the law of obligations. Two distinct areas can be identified in general private law research: commercial law and consumer law.
Major subjects in genral private law include contract law, the sale of goods law, the preferential right to assets in the event of insolvency as well as tort law. Some general issues concerning debt claims, transfer and ownership also belong here.
These subjects used to be domestically oriented, but today international discussions are held concerning the need to harmonise legal rules so that differences in the existing regulatory systems do not present trade barriers. Hence this subject tops the EU’s agenda and there is a broad support for introducing of a European statute book in the field of private law. Research in the field entails, as before, analysis of the legal rules, but also, even more importantly, identification of differences between the legal corpora used in different countries.
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Christina Ramberg
Professor
Jori Munukka
Professor
Göran Millqvist
Professor
Jessika Van Der Sluijs Björkman
Professor
Marcus Radetzki
Professor
Mårten Schultz
Professor
Johnny Herre
Adjungerad professor
Claes Sandgren
Professor emeritus
Alexander Unnersjö
Universitetslektor
Emil Elgebrant
Associate Professor
Johan Sandstedt
Universitetslektor
Konrad Lundberg
Universitetslektor
Mia Carlsson
Universitetslektor, docent
Ronney Hagelberg
Universitetslektor
Sara Göthlin
Jur. dok
Stina Bratt
Jur. dr.
Algot Bengtsson
Doktorand
Dafne Barkestad
Doktorand
Fredrik Sandberg
Doktorand
Patryk Sapa
Doktorand
Tove Lindgren
Doktorand
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