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YPLF 2024 Call for Abstracts


The YPLF is an informal network of junior property law researchers, both PhD candidates and those within 5 years of having obtained their doctorate. The YPLF aims to bring property law scholars together from around the world and enable them to discuss their work with each other and with more experienced researchers. The annual conferences provide an informal setting for young researchers to discuss innovative ideas and research in the area of property law, and to seek support in solving problems and improving their research, both in skills and in content.

Property law is taken in the widest sense, encompassing fields such as comparative property law, virtual property law, constitutional property law, environmental property law, property rights in land, water and volumes of space, and property law theory. As wide ranging as these fields are, they all share a vision on how to give shape to the property law of the 21st century. The YPLF continues to form a network for property law researchers around the world with new conferences and publications for both early career and more advanced scholars.

The YPLF was founded in 2009, by the following people when they were PhD students: Jill Robbie (University of Edinburgh), Eveline Ramaekers (University of Maastricht), Bram Akkermans (University of Maastricht), Koen Swinnen (University of Leuven) and Ernst Marais (University of Stellenbosch). The first conference of the Forum was held at the University of Edinburgh in 2009. The Forum meets once a year and is intended to create a global network of junior and senior property law scholars, and provide an opportunity for early career researchers to present their work. The results of the conferences have been published in a series entitled Property Law Perspectives. In 2019, the Forum celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a conference at the University of Glasgow. 

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