Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law
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The Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law (TICOM) is a research institute at Tilburg University in the Netherlands
. It conducts fundamental research in the fields of comparative law
and transnational law and has a special focus on law as an international phenomenon.
The institute was founded in September of 2008 by the comparatist Jan M. Smits
(professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law) and Monica Claes (professor of Comparative Constitutional Law). It has attracted a body of highly accomplished and young researchers, many of whom graduated with distinction from Oxford University and other top universities.
Some of the institute's notable research projects include the European Research Council
(ERC) funded European and National Constitutional Law project (eunacon), as well as National Resistance to the Europeanisation of Private Law - a project supported by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL). TICOM also organises a regular seminar series that attracts renown speakers, as well as an annual TICOM Roundtable.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. It conducts fundamental research in the fields of comparative law
Comparative law
Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...
and transnational law and has a special focus on law as an international phenomenon.
The institute was founded in September of 2008 by the comparatist Jan M. Smits
Jan M. Smits
Jan M. Smits is a Dutch law professor. He is professor of European Private Law at Maastricht University and director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute. He is also visiting professor of Comparative Legal Studies in the University of Helsinki.Smits was born in Leiden in 1967...
(professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law) and Monica Claes (professor of Comparative Constitutional Law). It has attracted a body of highly accomplished and young researchers, many of whom graduated with distinction from Oxford University and other top universities.
Some of the institute's notable research projects include the European Research Council
European Research Council
The European Research Council is the independent body that funds investigator-driven frontier research in the European Union . It is part of the Seventh Research Framework Programme ....
(ERC) funded European and National Constitutional Law project (eunacon), as well as National Resistance to the Europeanisation of Private Law - a project supported by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL). TICOM also organises a regular seminar series that attracts renown speakers, as well as an annual TICOM Roundtable.
External links
- http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticom
- http://www.hiil.org/index.php?page=national-resistance-against-the-europeanisation-of-private-law