China-EU School of Law
Workshop: Updating the protection of property
26 March 2018, by Internetredaktion
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Property is generally protected under the constitution – whether it is a banknote or cryptocurrency.
The constitutional protection of property in China and Europe still mainly covers the protection of things and goods. Yet this notion of property needs to be adapted to new requirements in modern business life and digitalisation - this is one of the results of a research workshop at the China-EU School of Law.
On 23 March, under the headline “The Constitutional Protection of Property in China and the EU“, for the third time legal scholars from China, Spain, Poland and Germany met in Beijing upon invitation of the China-EU School of Law and the Chinese-German Institute for Law („Chinesisch-Deutsches Institut für Rechtswissenschaft“) to discuss their research.
In the keynote lectures, Prof. Xie Libin from China University of Political Science and Law and Prof. Meinhard Schröder from the University of Passau presented their analyses of the constitutional protection of data in China and Europe. Dr Maria Dolores Utrilla Fernandez-Bermejo from the University of Castilla-La Mancha examined the Sharing Economy. Dr Katharina Reiling from University of Konstanz shed light on the protection of property in enterprises. Legal scholar Sandra Plicht from Universität Hamburg explained how the freedom of the arts, the freedom of assembly and the protection of property influence each other. Single results of this workshop will be published in the China-EU Law Journal, the China-EU School of Law’s research magazine, in late 2018.
