CURRICULUM VITAE PROF. DR. C.H. VAN RHEE

Last name: Van Rhee

First names: Cornelis Hendrik (Remco)

Date of birth: 1968

Nationality: Dutch

Adress: Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, Department of Foundations & Methods of Law, P.O. Box 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)43 388.35.72 / 30.20

Fax: + 31 (0)43 388.48.68

E-mail: remco.vanrhee@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Personal homepage: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/profile/remco.vanrhee.htm

 

Current Position

– Chair of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, 1998-present

 

Employment History

– Assistant Professor (private law and civil procedure), Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, 1994-1998

– Research Assistant (Legal History), Leiden University, Faculty of Law, 1991-1994

– Student Assistant (Human Rights and Legal History), Leiden University, Faculty of Law, 1988-1991

– Court Clerk, Court of First Instance, The Hague, 1993-1997

 

Academic Qualifications

– Doctorate, Leiden University, Faculty of Law, 5 February 1997 (highest distinction; Prix d’Excellence of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation)

– Law degree, Leiden, 1991

– History degree, Louvain (B), 1994

 

Languages

English (fluent), French (good), German (good), Italian (passive; good), Latin (passive; good)

 

Expertise

– Comparative Law

– Comparative Civil Procedure

– Court Organisation

– Roman Law

– European Legal History

– History of Courts and Adjudication

 

Research Positions of Responsibility

– Director of the programme “Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe” of the Ius Commune Research School (http://www.iuscommune.eu/leden.aspx?type=DP&ProgrammaId=11&language=English)

– Coordinator of a Research Project on Access to the Superior Courts of Law in China and Europe, sponsored by the China-EU School of Law (2013-2015)

– Coordinator of a Research Project on the History of the Central Courts in Europe and the Americas, sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2012-2015)

– Coordinator of a Research Project on the Powers of the Judge and the Parties in Civil Litigation in Europe and China, sponsored by the China-EU School of Law (2011-2013)

– Coordinator of a Research Project on the History of Undue Delay in Civil Procedure, sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2005-2010)

– Chairman of the working group ‘European Traditions in Civil Procedure’, sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2004-2006)

– Director of “Foundations of European Private Law” of the Ius Commune Research School (1999-2005)

 

Other Academic Positions of Responsibility

– Director Summer School ‘Public and Private Justice: Dispute Resolution in Modern Societies’, Inter University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia (2006-present)

– Expert in projects on law reform (civil procedure) for the Council of Europe and the EU (2011-2013)

– Coördinator Minor Governing Europe, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law (2005-2007)

– Chairman of the Education Board, Maastricht European Law School (2005-2008)

– Head of the Metajuridica Department, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law (2005-2008)

– Academic Director of the Maastricht University European Law School Masters Programme (2004-2006)

– Member of advisory committee on modern judicial archives in The Netherlands (1999-2001)

– Member of the Science Committee, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law (1998-2011)

 

Editorial Boards

– Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis (The Legal History Review / Revue d’histoire du droit)

– Pro Memorie: Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden (Dutch/Flemish Legal History Journal)

– Tijdschrift voor Civiele Rechtspleging (Dutch Law Journal on Civil Justice Administration)

– General editor of the Civil Procedure in Europe-series (Kluwer Law International, 1999-2005)

– General editor of the History of Private Law series (Brill publishers)

– General editor of the China and Comparative Law series (Brill publishers)

– General editor of the Civil Procedure Casebook of the Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe (http://www.casebooks.eu/civilProcedure/taskForce/)

– General editor of the Western Legal Traditions Casebook of the Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe

 

Advisory Boards

– Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (Dutch Journal of Private Law)

– Executief. Maandblad voor burgerlijke rechtsvordering (Dutch Journal on Civil Litigation)

– Glossae: European Journal of Legal History

– Comparative Legal History Journal

– Zbornik (Legal Journal of the Zagreb Faculty of Law in Croatia)

– Herald of Civil Process (Journal on Civil Procedure of the University of Kazan, Russia)

– Research manuals on the Archival Records of the Superior Courts of Law in the Northern Netherlands during the Ancien Régime

 

Elected Memberships

– Fellow of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute

– Founding Board Member of the European Society for Comparative Legal History

– Council Member of International Association of Procedural Law

– Member of the German Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht

– Member of the “Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde” (“Society of Dutch Literature and History”, founded in 1766)

 

Visiting Positions

– University of Bergen (Norway)

– Catholic University of Valparaíso (Chile)

– Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)

– China EU School of Law, Beijing (PR China)

– Geneva-Duke Summer School (Switzerland)

– Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (Russian Federation)

– Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania)

– Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev (Ukraine)

– Universitas Gadjah Mada of Yokyakarta (Indonesia)

– University of Cape Town (South Africa)

– University of Chisinau (Moldova)

– University of Ghent, honorary TPR Chair (Belgium)

– University of Odessa (Ukraine)

– University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)

– Ural State University of Ekaterinburg (Russian Federation)

– Wayne State University Law School of Detroit (USA)

 

Courses taught

– Introduction to European Law

– Civil Litigation in Europe

– Comparative Civil Procedure

– Foundations of Law in Europe

– Property Law

– Comparative Property Law

– European Integration in Past and Present

– Roman Law

– Legal History

 

Ph.D. students

– Pablo Bravo Hurtado (current): Access to the Supreme Court in Comparative Perspective

– Serban Vacarelu (current): Cultural Values and Civil Litigation

– Adela Ognean (current): Judicial Case Management in Civil Procedure

– Agustin Parise (current): The Origins of Property Law in Latin America

– Elisabetta Silvestri (current): Superior Courts: A Comparative Study

– Peter Chan (current): Mediation in China: A Comparative Perspective with Europe

– Andrej Auersperger Matic (current): Rule of Law as a Human Right

– Emanuel van Dongen (2013): History of Contributory Negligence

– Mariken Lenaerts (2013): Finding the Roots of Family law in Europe. A Reaction to National-Socialist Family Law?

– Remme Verkerk (2010): Fact-Finding in Civil Litigation

– Richard Verkijk (2010): De Advocaat in het Burgerlijk Proces (The Attorney at Law in Civil Litigation)

– Martine Dams (2010): Recidive in België en Nederland. Een Analyse van 200 Jaar Rechtspraak en Rechtsleer (Recidivism in Belgium and the Netherlands)

– Francesco Maiolo (2007): Medieval Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua and Bartolus of Saxoferrato

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