Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the Project ‘Transfer of Movables’: Organisational Framework, Basic Issues and Goals

Consensual versus Delivery Systems in European Private Law – Consensus about Tradition?

Private Autonomy in Property Law: Can the Parties ‘Design’ their Transfer?

An Abstract or a Causal System

How Swedish Lawyers Think about ‘Ownership’ and ‘Transfer of Ownership’ – Are We Just Peculiar or Actually Ahead?

Scepticism about the Functional Approach from a Unitary Perspective

The Relationship between Transfer Rules and Rules on Creditors’ Avoidance of Debtor’s Transactions

How to Draft New Rules on the Bona Fide Acquisition of Movables for Europe? Some Remarks on Method and Content

Good Faith Acquisition – Why at all?

Fiduciary Transfer and Ownership

Obligatory and Proprietary Rights: Where to Draw the Dividing Line – If at all?

The German Property Law and its Principles – Some Lessons for a European Property Law

Intellectual Property Rights: ‘Property’ or ‘Right’? The Application of the Transfer Rules to Intellectual Property

Unification in the Field of Property Law from the Perspective of European Law

Transfer of Ownership in Recent Reform Projects: Estonia

Protection and Transfer of Possession

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