Anna van Duin and others will present a joint paper on (the lack of) effective remedies to remove unlawful online content at the conference 'Frontiers in Civil Justice'. They will present empirical findings on ...

Laura Burgers essay from 'The Dizzying Journey of Sam the Sea Trout, or: From Human Rights to Marine Rights', are published in a beautiful little collection entitled 'The Voice of the North Sea'. There are also ...

After months of hard work and preparation we may now welcome you to the Transformative Private Law blog. The transformative private law blog sets out to be a platform for the discussion, debating and (re)thinking of ...

Jelle van Dijk is a Dutch legal scholar who will join the University of Amsterdam as a PhD candidate and teacher in the courses Financial Law and Insolvency law. He previously obtained both his LLB (cum laude) and ...

Rodrigo Vallejo will join the University of Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor in Private Law as part of the Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) and the Sustainable Global Economic Law project (SGEL) in ...

Kinanya Pijl is a Dutch legal scholar working on the role of law in sustainable finance. For her doctoral research project, Kinanya has conducted extensive empirical research in the banking sectors in the ...

In conversation Bronwen Morgan (UNSW Sydney) tells us about her passion for socio-legal research and developing new legal forms for economic transactions, human needs vs human rights, the importance of experiments of ...

Center for Transformative Private Law (ACT) is offering academic support for outstanding early career researchers in European contract law for their application to the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.

After her public lecture and participation in the conference on 'Epistemologies of Care - Rethinking Global Political Economy,' Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts Amherst) speaks to us about 'being born again' ...

On the 1st of January, CSECL became ACT, that is, Amsterdam Center for Transformative Private Law. We will celebrate the transformation of our research group at the ACT Launch Event, on the 14th of February 2020 at ...

Isabel Feichtner (University of Würzburg) has been following the international negotiations on deep seabed mining from an international law and political economy perspective for several years. In this interview she ...

In September 2019, Yannick van den Berg started his PhD research at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance and the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law. Yannick will be doing research in the ...

Following his guest lecture on "The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment", Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge) speaks to us about the algorithmic nature ...

Please find below a blog post on the CSECL conference titled, 'A New Deal for Civil Justice? The New Deal for Consumers and the Justiciability of EU Consumer Rights.' The conference has focused on issues of civil ...

The Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam has an opening for a PhD position. The PhD project will be focusing on interactions between two of the three sub-disciplines of European Private Law, European ...

On 28 June, Friday, the CSECL will host the participants of the joint summer program, which brings together faculty and students from Yale University, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and ESSEC Business School. ...

Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow) speaks to us about the historical, political, economic and societal aspects of labour law and the rapidly developing field of 'Economic Sociology of Labour Law.' She also explains ...

Center for the Study of Contract Law (CSECL) is offering academic support for outstanding early career researchers in European contract law for their application to the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.

High-profile academics discuss Hans-W. Micklitz's latest book titled The Politics of Justice in European Private Law.

The conference “Politics of Method in EU Law" will take place on 20 and 21 June 2019. The esteemed speakers shed light on the distributive implications of methodological choices in the study of EU law.

This conference aims to reflect with legal scholars and practitioners on the reconceptualisation of the role of civil courts in today’s European private legal order. Specifically, the conference’s focus lies on the ...

‘Judges in Utopia: Judicial law-making in European private law’, the five year NWO Vidi-supported research project, has a new website including a blog and details of all related publications and events.

The 2019 CSECL conference revolves around the New Deal for Consumers that was proposed by the European Commission on 11 April 2018. It focuses on issues of civil justice that the New Deal aims to address – as well ...

Professor Marco Loos has been appointed by the Minister of Home Affairs as independent member of the Advisory Council of the Rent Control Commission, effective as of 1st October 2018.  The Rent Control Commission ...

On 8 October 2018 CSECL's Professor Marco Loos will join an expert panel at the National Consumer Dialogue in The Hague to discuss the New Deal for Consumers proposed by the European Commission

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) invites applications for a PhD position from candidates who can actively contribute to Amsterdam Law School's dynamic research community. For 38 hours per ...

We are delighted to welcome Tawnee Hill who joins CSECL as a PhD candidate from 3 September 2018.

On Friday 4 May 2018 at 14:00, Nik de Boer defends his PhD thesis "Judging European Democracy: National Constitutional Review of European Law and Its Democratic Legitimacy" at the Agnietenkapel, Universiteit van ...

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) invites applications for two PhD positions from candidates who can actively contribute to Amsterdam Law School's dynamic research community. For 38 hours per ...

As of January 2018 Betül Kas joins CSECL as a post-doctoral researcher, within Prof. Chantal Mak’s Vidi project ‘Judges in Utopia. Judicial law-making in European private law’