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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