Research Handbook on European Property Law

Edited by Sjef van Erp, Head of the Private Law Department, University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor, Maastricht University and Katja Zimmermann, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: the dynamics of property law in Europe 1
Sjef van Erp
PART I GENERAL EU PROPERTY LAW
1 On the boundary between contract and property law: real burdens 7
Lars van Vliet
2 The influence of the four (or five) freedoms on property law 18
Bram Akkermans
3 The European Succession Regulation and its influence on European
land registries 28
Katja Zimmermann
4 The EU regulations on matrimonial property regimes and on the
property consequences of registered partnerships 39
Sabine Heijning
5 The Financial Collateral Directive 50
Reinout Wibier
6 Floating charges 60
Alisdair MacPherson
7 The influence of trusts in European countries 70
Maurizio Lupoi
8 Mortgage law in Europe 81
Elena Sánchez Jordán
9 Land registration in the European Union 92
Vincent Sagaert
PART II KEY QUESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
10 Property law: breakdown of essentials 109
Sjef van Erp
11 Digital Property 125
Wian Erlank
12 Data ownership 135
Jasper Verstappen
13 Cryptoassets and property 146
Kelvin F.K. Low and Megumi Hara
14 Access to land and mortgage registers: between legal certainty and
privacy protection 157
Arkadiusz Wudarski
15 Property law for the Circular Economy 169
Benjamin Verheye
16 Towards a moral transformation of ownership: social obligations in
European property law 186
Katja Zimmermann
17 Pandemics and property: current issues and future challenges 196
Elsabé van der Sijde
18 Intergenerational property law: using the example of home ownership 209
Tina Huber-Purtschert
19 Information property: navigator principles for the private–public
conundrum between digital data and immaterial property (IP) 219
Christine Godt
20 Expropriation 247
Björn Hoops