Academic visitors
Below is a list of academic visitors of the institute. Special attention is given to our distinguished visitors Eric Dirix and Peter Birks, who were bestowed honorary degrees at Radboud University for, among other things, their exceptional contribution to the institute.
Honorary doctorates
Professor Eric Dirix (KU Leuven)
Eric Dirix received an honorary degree in Nijmegen on 15 May 2008 during the celebrations of the seventeenth lustrum of Radboud University. Dirix holds a prestigious chair at the Catholic University of Leuven and in the Belgian Supreme Court. He is recognized as one of the most prominent and authoritative professors in the field of civil law in Belgium. Dirix is closely involved with the legal research and education in Nijmegen, especially the Radboud Business Law Institute (OO&R). He has greatly contributed to the building of the OO&R’s international network.
Professor Peter Birks (Oxford University) (†)
Peter Birks was awarded an honorary degree on 15 May 2003, marking the 80th anniversary of the university. He was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Birks was one of the leading scholars in the fields of modern English private law, comparative law and Roman law. He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of restitution, and is considered to have been one of the greatest English legal scholars of the 20th century. His work, however, has been of great academic value far beyond England. His academic work was characterized by a never-ending search for the principles and structure of the English private law, whilst keeping a close eye on legal practice. This approach closely corresponds with the typical style of research conducted in Nijmegen. Between 1994 and 1996 Birks held the CPO Chair in Nijmegen. Peter Birks died on 6 July 2004, at the age of 63.
In his honour, professors Corjo Jansen, Bas Kortmann and Rick Verhagen published an In Memoriam (pdf, 780 kB) (in Dutch).
Academic visitors
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Giulia Pancioli |
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Mario Natale |
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Sophie Cools |
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Inga Malinauskaitė-van de Castel |
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Matthias Lehmann |
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Roland Djieufack |
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Birgit Snijder-Kuijpers |
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Igor Lima |
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Irofili Kyriaki Pechlivanidi |
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Giuseppe Portonera |
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Kathrine Rosman Nielsen |
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Jens-Hinrich Binder |
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Sander Baeyens |
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Francesco Petrosino |
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Cao Yiyang |
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Charles Zheng |
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Wouter Druwé |
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Reinhard Bork |
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Veerle Colaert |
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Professor Kathleen van der Linde |
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Miriam Kullmann |
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Edoardo Grossule |
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Professor Louise Gullifer |
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Professor Guido Ferrarini |
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Professor Hans Schulte-Nölke |
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Professor Jason Kilborn |
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Professor Christopher Symes |
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Professor Kazimierz Baran Visiting professor (May 2017, 2011) Professor at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) |
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Siel Demeyere Visiting researcher (October 2016) PhD candidate at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Joanna Jastrzębska Academic visitor (April 2016) PhD candidate at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) |
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Professor Wouter Devroe Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Chair (2014 – 2015) Professor of EU and Competition Law at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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Professor Laura Macgregor Van der Grinten Chair in International Commercial Law (2013 – 2015) Professor at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) |
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Frederik Peeraer Academic visitor (October – November 2014) PhD candidate at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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Jan Halberda Academic visitor (2013) Assistant professor at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) |
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Professor Bert Demarsin Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Chair (2012 – 2013) Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Professor Susan Scott Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Chair (2012 – 2013) Professor at the University of South Africa (Pretoria) |
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Professor Richard Broude Academic visitor (2011-2013) (Former) Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University (New York) and lecturer-in-law at the Columbia Law School (New York) |
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Professor Tomáš Richter Van de Grinten Chair in Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency Law (2011 – 2012) Commercial Law practitioner, Clifford Chance LLP, Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Mitzi Wiese Academic visitor (2011) Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of South Africa (Pretoria) |
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Professor André Janssen Academic visitor TMR-network (1999-2002, 2006, 2010) Professor at the University of Münster (Germany) |
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Georges Cavalier |
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Professor Ewan McKendrick CPO Chair in Civil Law and Common Law of Contract (sixth holder) (2002– 2004) Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) |
| Professor William McBryde Van der Grinten Chair in Commercial Law (2002 – 2004) Professor Emeritus of Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) |
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Professor Axel Flessner Van der Grinten Chair in International Insolvency Law (2000 – 2002) Professor Emeritus of German, European and International Private Law and Comparative Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) |
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Christopher Dallimore Academic visitor TMR-network (1999-2002) (Former) PhD candidate at the University of Münster (Germany) |
| Professor Kenneth Reid Academic visitor TMR-network (1999-2002) Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh (United Kindom) |
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Professor Reiner Schultze Academic visitor TMR-network (1999-2002) Professor of Law at the University of Münster (Germany) |
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Professor Robert Stevens Academic visitor TMR-network (1999-2002) Professor of English Private Law at University of Oxford (United Kingdom) |
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Professor Yves-Henri Leleu Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Chair (2000 – 2001) Professor at the University of Liège (Belgium) |
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Professor Bernard Tilleman Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Chair (January – June 1999) Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Professor Donevan Waters CPO Chair in Trust Law (third holder) (1997 - 1998) Professor Emeritus at University of Victoria (Canada) |
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Professor Herman Cousy CPO Chair in Insurance Law (third holder) (1996 - 1997) Professor Emeritus at KU Leuven (Belgium) |
| Professor David Hayton Van der Grinten Chair in Trust Law (1995 – 1997) (Former) Professor of Law, King’s College London (United Kingdom) |
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Professor Peter Birks (†) CPO Chair in Common Law / Law of Contracts (first holder) (1994 - 1996) Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) |
