NUYTS Arnaud

Units

The Center for Private Law conducts collective and individual research activities distributed among four units: the Unit of Private International Law, the Unit of Family Law, the Unit of Economic Law, the Unit of Judicial Law, the Unit Jurislab, the Unit Notary and the Unit of Fiscal Law.

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Unit of International Private Law

The main lines of research conducted by the Unit of Private International Law focus on the following: the process of European integration of private international law, European cross-border litigation, aspects of private international law regulating intellectual property and new technologies, the interactions between competition law, market regulation and private international law.

Unit of Judicial Law

Established within the Private Law Center of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the ULB, the Judicial Law Unit has the task of carrying out collective and individual research and organizing conferences in the field of private judicial law. in the broadest sense, including alternative dispute resolution methods. Under the direction of Jacques Englebert, the Judicial Law Unit has published the summary of Civil Trial Law (Anthémis).

Unit of JurisLab

The JurisLab is a research unit dedicated to the law of creation and innovation. As part of an interdisciplinary approach, the JurisLab is located in the ULB FabLab where its members collaborate with academics and scientists from other ULB Faculties (Architecture, École polytechnique, Sciences).

The collective and individual research conducted there specifically covers intellectual property, data, consumer, competition and unfair competition rights, as well as the interactions between them.

Collective research revolves around six axes:

- Intellectual property, trade secrets, data and artificial intelligence
- Open creations and science
- Consumption, brands, competition and personal data
- Innovation and law
- Arts and Law
- Educational innovations

The members of the JurisLab are academics and/or practitioners of the subjects concerned. They aim to contribute prospectively to the development of these subjects, taking into account the various interests involved. They enjoy full independence and autonomy in their research. They adhere to the principles of Open Data, Open Source and Open Access. Their publications are available in DI-fusion, the ULB institutional repository.

The JurisLab is part of various research networks and maintains close collaborations at the national (LCII of the University of Liège) and international (Pan-European Seal Network, Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers, G3) levels. It welcomes visiting researchers on request.

The JurisLab was co-founded in 2019 by Profs. Andrée Puttemans and Julien Cabay. Prior to this date, research in the fields of activity of the JurisLab was carried out within the Economic Law Unit (under the direction of Andrée Puttemans).