IPR

Cursus IPR
Internationale contracten waarbij verschillende rechtstelsels zijn betrokken, vereisen kennis van het Internationaal Privaatrecht. Tijdens de cursus geeft professor Xandra Kwamer inzicht in Europese regelgeving (Rome I, Rome II). Daarnaast zullen relevante internationale en nationale regelingen worden behandeld. De belangrijkste recente ontwikkelingen zullen de revue passeren.

Docente; Xandra Kramer
Xandra Kramer is professor Private International Law at Utrecht University (0,2fte) and combines this with a professorship European Civil Procedure at Erasmus University Rotterdam (0,8fte). In addition, she is a Deputy Judge at the District Court of Rotterdam. She studied law at Leiden University (cum laude). Her first (student) article was awarded with the Ars Aequi prize (1996). She was assistant professor at Leiden University and obtained her Ph.D. on provisional measures and private international law in 2001. She worked as an assistant and associate professor at Erasmus School of Law and was appointed full professor on 1 February 2011 (chair European Civil Procedure). On 1 November 2016, she was appointed professor at Utrecht University.

Xandra conducts research and lectures in the area of private international law, international litigation, comparative law, arbitration, mediation, and European private law and has published numerous articles and several books in these areas. She is particularly fascinated by the cross-roads between economic efficiency and procedural fairness, the actual functioning of civil justice systems and its impact on litigants, transnational complex litigation and enforcement, and the harmonisation of EU private international law and civil procedure. Her research combines doctrinal legal research, comparative law, policy-oriented and (qualitative) empirical research.

She was awarded a research fellowship for a project on the harmonisation of civil procedure in the EU by the Board of Erasmus University (2004). In 2010, she was awarded a prestigious VIDI-grant by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a research on Securing Quality in Cross-Border Enforcement in the EU (2011-2016). In 2016, she obtained an ERC consolidator grant for her project Building EU civil justice: challenges of procedural innovations bridging access to justice (2017-2022). She has been a project leader and has participated in numerous studies for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, the European Parliament, and the European Commission.