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22.01.2025

In January 2025, the international book “EU Banking and Capital Markets Regulation - Open Issues of Vertical Interplay with National Law” was published by Springer. The work, edited by Filippo Annunziata and Michele Siri, deals with issues of interaction between national law and EU law. Professor Dr. Prof. h.c. Thomas M.J. Möllers and Akad. Rat a.Z. Dr. Maximilian Merwald have written about the role of national law in the regulation of key information documents (PRIIPs) on pages 243 - 289. The authors address many methodological issues and explain the open flanks of the interaction between national law and EU law in this context.
Möllers, T.M.J., Merwald, M. (2025). The Role of National Law in the Regulation of PRIIPs. In: Annunziata, F., Siri, M. (eds) EU Banking and Capital Markets Regulation. EBI Studies in Banking and Capital Markets Law. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70529-8_7

08.01.2025

The work “Juristische Methodenlehre” by Professor Möllers has fortunately already gone through five editions since 2017 and was quickly sold out each time. It has received numerous reviews in Germany and abroad and is cited in case law and legal literature. An English-language version was published in 2020 and an edition in Chinese followed with the 4th edition in 2021. Fortunately, it is now used at many universities to prepare for the First State Examination and in the legal clerkship for the Second State Examination. (...)

08.01.2025

The Archiv für die civilistische Praxis recently published the article “Returns with costs in distance selling - For a mandatory obligation of the consumer to bear the costs” by Professor Dr. Thomas Möllers and Julian Glas, LL.M.
The article, which was also presented at a lecture in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in November 2024, takes an empirical and consequential approach to the current legal situation regarding returns in distance selling. With a new look at the modernized purposes of European consumer law, the article argues for a mandatory obligation on the part of the consumer to bear the costs of returning the goods.