Academic Career
Current Professional Roles
since 2024
Academic advisor of LexquireTax & Law/The Netherlands, Academic advisor of Vault Security AG/Switzerland
Member of the International and Regional Advisory Council of the Latin American Group of Tort Law (LAGTL)
Co-chair of the Digital Law Special Interest Group (Digital LawSIG) of the European Law Institute
Member of the advisory board for the book series ʻRisk and law in a digital and artificial futureʼ (Mc Graw Hill)
since 2023
Rapporteur of the CISG Advisory Council for the opinion on ʻDigital Products and the CISGʼ
Council member of the European Law Institute (ELI)
Editor of the preprint SSRN eJournals European Public Law:
EU and European Public Law: National
Member of the advisory board of the Students Blockchain Association Netherlands
since 2021
International contributor for CISG-online.org Yearly visiting professor at Bocconi University/Italy
Yearly visiting professor at Verona University/Italy
Member of the advisory board for the book series ʻLegal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studiesʼ (Springer)
since 2020
Member of the advisory board of the ‘Studia Prawnicze’
Member of the editorial board of the ‘Opinio Juris in Comparatione’
since 2019
Arbitrator at the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI)
Member of the editorial board of the ‘International Arbitration Law Review’ (IALR)
since 2018
Chair Professor for Private Law and European Private Law at Radboud University
The Netherlands
Academic collaborator of the ‘Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht’ (NTBR)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the JUR AG/Switzerland
since 2016
Co-President of the German-Dutch Jurists’ Conference
Honorary Professor at Gansu University/China
since 2015
Co-chief editor of the ‘European Review of Private Law’ (ERPL)
Yearly visiting professor at Leiden University/The Netherlands
since 2007
Member of the German working committee of the German-Dutch Jurists’ Conference
Past Professional Roles
2024
2024 Visiting professor at Koç University, Istanbul/Turkey
Visiting professor at Catholic University of Valparaíso/Chile
Visiting professor at Jiangsu University/China
Visiting professor at Qingdao University/China
2023
Visiting professor at City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong/China
2022 - 2024
Wenlan Chair at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law/China
2022
Visiting professor at East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL), Shanghai / China
2021 - 2022
Francqui-chair at Leuven University/Belgium
2020 - 2021
Chair for Global Law at Leuven University/Belgium
2019 - 2022
Visiting professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing/China
2017 - 2018
Visiting professor at Catholic University Lyon/France
2016 - 2019
Academic advisor of the Belt and Road Committee in Hong Kong/China
2015 - 2018
Professor, PhD and JSD Programme Director, and Co-director of the Moot Court Institute at City University Hong Kong/China
2014 - 2015
Interim professor at Münster University/Germany, Bayreuth
University/Germany, and Göttingen University/Germany
2013 - 2014
Associate professor at the Centre for European Private Law (CEP) at Münster University / Germany
2012 - 2014
General reporter for the 19 th International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna/Austria on the subject ‘Disgorgement of Profits’
2010 - 2012
European Commission Excellence-Scholarship ‘People Marie Curie Actions: Intra-European Fellowship (IEF)’ for a research period at Turin University/Italy
2008 - 2010
Post-doctoral scholarship awarded by the Heinrich Hertz- Foundation for a research period at Radboud University / TheNetherlands
2006
Post-doctoral scholarship awarded by the European Commission’s TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers)- research network ‘Uniform Terminology for European Private Law’ for a research period at Radboud University/The Netherlands and Turin University/Italy
2006 - 2016
Chair of the German editorial board of the ‘Contratto e impresa/Europa’
2006 - 2016
Co-editor of the ‘European Review of Private Law’ (ERPL)
2003 - 2008
Assistant professor at the Centre for European Private Law (CEP) at Münster University / Germany
2002 - 2003
Post-doctoral scholarship awarded by the European Commission’s TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers)- research network ‘Uniform Terminology for European Private Law’ for a research period at Radboud University/TheNetherlands
1998 - 2000
Post-graduate scholarship awarded by the European Commission’s TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers)- research network ‘Common Principles for European Private Law’ for a research period at Münster University / Germany, Radboud University / The Netherlands, and Oxford University / UK (All Souls College)
1998
Research assistant at the Centre for European Private Law (CEP) at Münster University / Germany
Educational Milestones
2014
Completion of post-doctoral studies (‘Habilitation’) with the post-doctoral thesis ‘Preventive Disgorgement of Profits’ at Münster University/Germany. Authorisation to teach German Private Law, Commercial Law, European Private Law and Comparative Law (venia legendi)
2002
Completion of the German Second State Examination in Law Conferral of the Dutch title “meester in de rechten (mr.)”
2001
Completion of doctoral studies with the thesis ‘The Inspection and Notification Duties in German, Dutch and International Sales Law – A Comparative Description of the Similarities and Differences’ (summa cum laude) at Münster University/Germany
2000 - 2002
Legal trainee at the Regional Court Dortmund/Germany
1997
Completion of the German First State Examination in Law
1991 - 1997
Studies in law at Münster University/Germany and Radboud University/The Netherlands
Awards
2024
Prize for the best Special Interest Group (SIG) of the European Law Institute
2001
Dissertation Prize awarded by Münster University/Germany
Memberships
Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University Hong Kong / China
Dutch Jurists’ Association
Dutch Association for Comparative Law
European Law Institute
German Association of Civil Law Instructors
German-Dutch Jurists’ Association
German Society for Comparative Law
International Association for Consumer Law
Italian Society for Comparative Law
Marie Curie Alumni Association
Netherlands Arbitration Institute
Robotics & AI Law Society