European Union Property Law From Fragments to a System

This study provides an overview of the existing acquis communautaire in property law, and presents a proposal for the future development of this field of law. It deals with the influence of the EUÆs four freedoms on national property law and discusses whether or not the EU would have the competence to actively create property law, and the extent to which it has already done so.

Eveline Ramaekers currently holds a post as a Career Development Fellow in Law at Wadham College, Oxford. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies (LLB, LLM with distinction) at the European Law School (Maastricht) between 2003-2008. She was awarded a doctorate in European Union property law by Maastricht University in April 2013. Before moving to Oxford she was a visiting lecturer and researcher at the China-EU School of Law (Beijing), the University of Muenster and the South-African Research Chair in Property Law in Stellenbosch. Her research interests include EU property law, comparative property law and private international law. She co-founded the Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF), a global network for junior property law researchers, and now co-chairs its Board of Advisors. She has co-edited several volumes of the "Property Law Perspectives book" series in which the papers presented at the YPLF are published.