Prof. C.H. Sieburgh (Carla)

Professor Carla Sieburgh is an expert in civil law, in particular the influences of European Law and human rights law on national private law. She focuses on Dutch patrimonial law, contract law, tort law, unjustified enrichment, damages, comparative private law, effects of EU law, human rights law and public law on national private law and resolution of disputes. To find answers to concrete problems she looks for the principles of European law, civil law and public law, and from foreign legal systems.
Professor Sieburgh is a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute. She is the author to the four volumes on the Law of Obligations and of the volume on European Private Law in the Asser Series. She is a member of the governing Council of Unidroit, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Academia Europaea. She has been a justice in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 2017-2024.