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We are looking for an inspired, innovative assistant professor to engage in cross-cutting research within the law school’s research project on ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL)’, and to teach in the field of ...

We are looking for an inspired, innovative assistant professor to engage in cross-cutting research within the law school’s research project on ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL)’, and to teach innovative courses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’

Irina Domurath's new publication "Consumer Vulnerability and Welfare in Mortgage Contracts" is available now on Hart Publishing

As of 1 September 2017 Irina Domurath joined the CSECL as a post-doctoral researcher, where she will explore the multi-level governance of access to housing in cities.

As of 1 January 2017 Nik de Boer is an ACCESS EUROPE post-doctoral researcher affilated to the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG).

On Fridays in September and the first half of October 2016 Martijn Hesselink teaches the course 'The Political Philosophy of Contract Law' at Sciences Po (Paris, France).

Eveline Ramaekers joined the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) on 1 September 2016.

During the academic year 2016-2017 Prof. Reinhard Steennot will hold the special Chair in Private Law of the Dutch-Belgian Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht.

Mirthe Jiwa (1992) joined the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) as a PhD candidate on 1 September 2016.

Andrea Cecchetto will be at the CSECL from 15 June until 25 July.

As of 1 June 2016 Giuseppe Versaci joins the CSECL during two months.