5th Research Project of the EAPIL Young Research Network: Call for Participants

The EAPIL’s Young Research Network has just launched its fifth research project, which is being led by Mathilde Codazzi, Paul Eichmüller and Marco Pasqua. The project will focus on the national rules governing the law applicable to non-contractual obligations arising out of privacy and personality rights.

The aim of the project is to enable a comparison of the above-mentioned national rules, which, in turn, will allow to assess the suitability of different solutions for the harmonisation process currently underway as part of the ongoing Rome II Regulation revision.

The fifth project – like the previous and third one – will consist in the drafting of national reports, based on a questionnaire, by rapporteurs. Each national report will be expected to be roughly between 5,000 and 12,000 words (including footnotes). A first draft of the report will need to be sent to the heads of the project by 7 September 2025. The Chairs are striving to publish the reports (together with other materials) in a volume similar to the one from the last projects.

The Chairs warmly invite junior researchers (below full professor) or practitioners under the age of 45 to provide a national report on the legal framework of the EU Member State they are based in (or which they are otherwise qualified to provide).

Reports are currently requested from the following EU Member States: Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

If you are interested in providing a national report – with respect to the Member States listed above – the Chairs would be grateful if you could come back to them by sending an email to youngresearch@eapil.org by 31 March 2025.