EAPIL Working Group on Property Law Publishes Interim Results

The EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law has been working for almost four years on a draft instrument on the applicable law to property rights in tangible assets. It has held regular meetings, including six in person meetings in various parts of Europe.

The Working Group will next meet in Antwerp in May 2025 and hopes to produce a first complete draft which it will then be able to share, present and discuss, in particular at the EAPIL Geneva Conference in June 2026.

Several members of the Group participated in a conference on Rights in Rem in EU Private international law, which was held in Tarragona in Aprile 2024, and presented some interim results of the work of the group. The proceedings of the conference have now been published in an open-access book edited by Maria Font-Mas, which was announced yesterday on this blog.

The book includes the following contributions of the members of the Working Group: Eva-Maria Kieninger, A European Regulation for International Property Law; Afonso Patrão, Choice of Law in Land Security Rights – An Impossible Solution?; Gilles Cuniberti, Rethinking conflit mobile: Applying the Law of COMI to rights in rem; Jonathan Schenk, Drafting an EU Choice-of-law Rule for Property Rights in Means of Transport. Something Old, Something New; Janeen M. Carruthers, Looking at Cultural Objects Through a Private International Law Lens.