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Things I’m currently involved in…

Assistant Professor of Private Law at Maastricht University Faculty of Law

Coordinator of Conflict Prevention & Resolution at the Faculty of Law

Coordinator of International Business Law at the Faculty of Law & School of Business and Economics

Researcher for the Sectorplan on Globalization & Law Network

Course Designer and Advisory Board Member for the UM Global Studies Program

Member of the UM Law Faculty Council

Member of the Diversity & Inclusivity Advisory Council

Editorial Board Member for UMagazine

Member of Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies

Manager of Maastricht Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Clinic

Organizer for "We Got Problems"

Former member of the Maastricht Young Academy, Studio Europa Maastricht Young Researcher’s Network, Maastricht European Private Law Institute, UM Learning & Innovation Taskforce, and former coordinator of International Business Law at Hasselt University (Belgium)

 
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“Recent” Publications

On Mattering (2025)

Humility & Hubris (2024)

Maastricht University’s Midlife Crisis (2024)

The (False) Promises of AI and On Demand Manufacturing towards Sustainability? (2024)

A Vigilante EU, the Encroachment of European Laws Abroad, and Its Impact on Japan (2024)

Academic Citizenship as a Mediating Mechanism (2024)

On Academic Citizenship, Diversity & Inclusivity, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom, and Interdisciplinary Education: Potential Lessons from Dutch Academia? (2023)

“Requirements for Reliance on Settlement Agreements” in The Singapore Convention on Mediation: A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (2022)

Good Intentions and Detours on the Road to Diversity (2022)

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff? The New Proposal for the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (2022)

Are the German Courts Actually Fighting for (In)justice?! (2021)

Made in Maastricht 1981 - 2021 (2021)

Japanese Translation of Jan M. Smits’ “Contract Law: A Comparative Introduction” (2021)

How (Not) to Search for the Truth and (Perhaps) Improve the Human Condition. Toyo Hogaku (2020)

The Mediation Disruption: A Path to Better Conflict Resolution through Interdisciplinarity and Cognitive Diversity. Corporate Mediation Journal (2020)

Company Law is Bananas (with Kim Berg). Sustainability and Private Law (2020)

Corporate Impunity and the Tolerable Lightness of Soft Laws. TvOB (2019)

Columns for The Observant

Some older articles are available on my SSRN page

 
 

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View fullsize Every year, I make fun of Granny Smith Apples as the "inferior" apple relative to the purebreads like Fuiji or Pink Lady (in the context of Non-Conforming goods). This year, the Green Apple Army stuck back and left me a poem (and a green ap
View fullsize At some point last week, I got another year older. Time is really running out for me to actually "grow up" 💀
View fullsize Another heavy teaching season starting up once again. Last time teaching the Internationa Business Law course and starting up the new Conflict Prevention & Resolution course. In designing the new course, this has been my Bible. Almost everything
View fullsize Making the best of an otherwise freezing cold Maastricht ☃️
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View fullsize One way to spend your birthday for sure. HBD @marieke_hopman ☔⛸️🥳
View fullsize The Unofficial Faculty of Law Christmas Party 🍻
View fullsize Quick weekend away with the fam, only to fall deathly ill 🤢
View fullsize A very staged photo of Amy doing Amy things 😉
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View fullsize Temptation lurks around every corner en route to work here in Dublin 🍀
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