Dr Cees van Dam, LLB (Rotterdam), LLM (Utrecht), PhD (Utrecht)

Van Dam

Teaching Associate

email: c.vandam@qmul.ac.uk

Cees van Dam joined the Department of Law in 2007 as a Teaching  Associate. He teaches Comparative European Law LLB. He is also Honorary Professor of European Private Law at Utrecht University and a London based consultant for law firms, companies, governments and NGO’s. His expertise is in Corporate Social Responsibility, Tort Law, Contract Law, European Community law, and Human Rights Law.

Cees Van Dam worked at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London as Director of the European and Comparative Law Programme and of the Regulation Forum (2004-2007). Before moving to London in 2004 he was Professor of Private Law at the VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Prior to this tenure he was a member of staff at the Ministry of Justice of The Netherlands, where he worked on the new Dutch Civil Code, European Directives and international treaties.

Publications:

Professor Cess van Dam's website www.ceesvandam.info

Recent publications

  • European Tort Law (Oxford University Press), 2006 (538 p.) Preface: Professor Walter van Gerven. Paperback reprint in May 2007
  • ‘European Tort Law and the Many Cultures of Europe’, in: Thomas Wilhelmsson a.o. (ed.), Private Law and the Many Cultures of Europe (Kluwer Law International, 2007)
  • ‘The Statutory Frameworks and General Rules on Unfair Commercial Practices in the 25 EU Member States on the Eve of Harmonisation’, with Erika Budaite, in Christian Twigg-Flesner (ed.), The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2008 (Ashgate, 2008)

Research interests:

Professor Van Dam has research interests in the influence of Community law and Human Rights law on national private law, in particular tort law and contract law. In 2006 Oxford University Press published his book European Tort Law, a path breaking book that brings together the European, comparative, national, and human rights law aspects of tort law.