Research

Erasmus School of Law is characterised by research on the function of law in its economic and social context, more specifically on the overarching question of the role of law in safeguarding public and private interests in national and international trade and commerce.

Our research

Our research is organised into four departments and three major interdisciplinary research initiatives, that have been a major catalyst in further developing our research.

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Transparency in cybersecurity: a blind spot?

Friday 17 Jun 2022
General

The open access dilemma

Sigrid Hemels, Professor of Tax Law, pleads for more explicit rules and discussions on open access publication in an opinion piece in het FD.

Friday 22 Apr 2022
General

Grant facilitates extensive research into human trafficking, money laundering, and corruption

Martijn Scheltema, Professor of Private Law at Erasmus School of Law, is part of this research project into crimes like human trafficking.

Monday 11 Apr 2022
General

Third Newsletter Transfer of proceedings (TROP) research project

The Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), the Amsterdam Public prosecution office (the Netherlands), together with Bielefeld University (Germany) and

Monday 28 Mar 2022
General

Conference Healthy PhD Practices

On March 16 2022, the national conference Healthy PhD Practices took place.

Thursday 17 Mar 2022
General

Innovative research on cybersecurity launched

Three PhD positions in cybersecurity are being created at the Centre for the Law & Economics of Cyber Security, in cooperation with the field.

Tuesday 18 Jan 2022
Press release

When should a deep red card lead to prosecution?

The law is the same for everyone, but there are still enough situations that a judge will look at differently. PhD student Sven Bakker mapped this out.

Thursday 9 Dec 2021
PhD defence

Erasmus School of Law successfully hosts online Doctoral Research Forum

The designed peer-to-peer forum facilitates a constructive place for PhD candidates to share their research while receiving feedback and valuable guidance from…

Monday 8 Mar 2021
General

Mathijs Giltjes and Arnoud Pijls in Columbia Law School's Blog about the European Market Abuse Regulation

In this paper, Matthijs Giltjes and Arnoud Pijls defend the independent status of these legal provisions by focusing on their function of serving legal…

Thursday 11 Feb 2021
Publication

Researchers at Erasmus School of Law hand over Guidelines for Handling Work-Related Disease Cases to the State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment

Researchers of the Civil Law department of Erasmus School of Law have worked for the past three years on the book "Guideline for Settlement of Work-Related…

Tuesday 1 Dec 2020
Publication