Sub-project 1a: Digitisation - Erlis Themeli (Postdoc)
Results from this project include publications, conference presentations and guest lectures.
The research achievements of E. van Gelder consisted of publications including scientific contributions as well as blog posts, conference presentations, teaching activities and the progress on her PhD thesis. End of 2019 she received an ACES research grant, together with fellow team member E. Themeli and colleague A. van Duin (University of Amsterdam) to organize an academic conference. This grant was based on a grant application they wrote on AI and law.
Sub-project 2: Privatization (ADR) - Alexandre Biard (Postdoc) and Betül Kas (Postdoc)
A. Biard worked on sub-project 2 from September 2017 to November 2019. He published several papers in highly-ranked European and national peer-reviewed journals and books, participated in expert meetings, international events (including the EU-China 3rd Legal Affairs Dialogues in Beijing organized by the EU Commission), conferences and symposiums in Paris, Leicester, Luxembourg, Dubrovnik, and he took part in a summer class on “privatizing dispute resolution” organized by the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. A contribution was made on collective redress for the European Parliament, conducted field research in collaboration with the Belgian Consumer Ombudsman. This study made policy recommendations to improve the work of the Consumer Ombudsman that were then presented to its Board of Directors. Several seminars and conferences where organized in Paris and Rotterdam. He gave several lectures to students on consumer redress and is daily supervising the PhD thesis of E. van Gelder. B. Kas started to work on sub-project 2 in January 2020. The initial months have been spent sighting the available literature, concretizing and conceptualizing the research question and working on a research design.
Sub-project 3: Self-representation - Jos Hoevenaars (Postdoc)
Results from this project include publications, conference presentations, guest lectures, interviews and shorter blogposts. The latter include posts on a comparison of legal aid reform in the Netherlands with the current state of legal aid in the UK, and more recently on the impact of the Corona crisis on collective actions. Collaboration with E. van Gelder on the earlier stated survey with the national consumer association ‘The Consumentenbond’ resulted in a forthcoming report. Building on Hoevenaars’ previous research on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the preliminary reference procedure, this project resulted in (forthcoming) publications (see publication list).
Sub-project 4: Court specialization - Georgia Antonopoulou (PhD)
G. Antonopoulou has published three articles (see publication list). She gave onference presentations, guest lectures and conducted interviews. As part of her PhD, she has completed three chapters of her book International Commercial Courts. She has two research stays at: Max Planck Institute Luxemburg and Singapore Management University School of Law.
