Biography
Xandra Kramer is professor of Private Law at Erasmus School of Law. She combines this position with a parttime (0,2) professorship in Private International Law at Utrecht University. In addition, she is a Deputy Judge at the District Court of Rotterdam, and member of the advisory board of this court . She was elected member to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. She studied law at Leiden University (cum laude). Her first (student) article was awarded with the Ars Aequi prize (1996). She was assistant professor at Leiden University and obtained her Ph.D. on provisional measures and private international law in 2001. She worked as an assistant and associate professor at Erasmus School of Law and was appointed professor on 1 February 2011.
Xandra conducts research and lectures in the area of civil justice and private international law and has published numerous articles and books in these areas. She is particularly fascinated by the cross-roads between economic efficiency and procedural fairness, the functioning of civil justice systems and its impact on litigants, transnational complex litigation and enforcement, and the harmonisation of EU private international law and civil procedure. Her research combines doctrinal legal research, comparative law, policy-oriented and empirical research.
She was awarded a research fellowship for a project on the harmonisation of civil procedure in the EU by the Board of Erasmus University (2004). In 2010, she was awarded a VIDI-grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a research on Securing Quality in Cross-Border Enforcement in the EU (2011-2016). In 2016, she obtained an ERC consolidator grant for her project Building EU civil justice: challenges of procedural innovations - bridging access to justice (2017-2022). In 2020, she was awarded a VICI grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project Affordable access to justice: challenges of procedural innovations - bridging access to justice (2020-2025). She has been a project leader and has participated in numerous studies for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, the European Parliament, and the European Commission, and acts as an expert in the area of innovation of justice, digitisation, and various topics of litigation.
She is a member of the Dutch Royal Society of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and currently presides the legal science section.
Erasmus School of Law
- kramer@law.eur.nl
- Room
- L7-002
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Xandra Kramer, Ianika Tzankova, Jos Hoevenaars & Karlijn van Doorn (2023) - Nut, noodzaak, vormgeving en kosten van een (revolverend) processenfonds voor collectieve acties: Rapport tbv het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoeks- en Documentatiecentrum - [link]
- Eduardo Silva de Freitas & Xandra Kramer (2022) - First strike in a Dutch TikTok class action on privacy violation: court accepts international jurisdiction - [link]
- Xandra Kramer, Stefaan Voet, Lorenz Ködderitzsch, Magdalena Tulibacka & Burkhard Hess (2022) - Delivering Justice: A Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Christopher Hodges - [link]
- Jos Hoevenaars, Xandra Kramer & Erlis Themeli (2022) - Frontiers in civil justice: privatising, digitising and funding justice - [link]
- Jos Hoevenaars, Erlis Themeli, Betül Kas & Xandra Kramer (2022) - Frontiers in Civil Justice:: Privatisation,Monetisation and Digitisation - [link]
- Masood Ahmed & Xandra Kramer (2021) - Global Developments and Challenges in Costs and Funding of Civil Justice - Erasmus Law Review, 2021 (4), 181-188 - doi: 10.5553/ELR.000215 - [link]
- APGCF (Alexandre) Biard, J (Jos) Hoevenaars, XE (Xandra) Kramer & E (Erlis) Themeli (2021) - Introduction: The Future of Access to Justice – Beyond Science Fiction - [link]
- Xandra Kramer, Alexandre Biard, Jos Hoevenaars & Erlis Themeli (2021) - New Pathways to Civil Justice in Europe: Challenges of Access to Justice - [link]
- I.N. (Ianika) Tzankova & Xandra Kramer (2021) - From Injunction and Settlement to Action: Collective Redress and Funding in the Netherlands - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-73036-9_5 - [link]
- Jos Hoevenaars & Xandra Kramer (2021) - Improving Access to Information in European Civil Justice: A Mission (Im)Possible?
- Xandra Kramer, Alexandre Biard, Jos Hoevenaars & Erlis Themeli (2021) - Pathways to Civil Justice in Europe
- Priskila Penasthika & Xandra Kramer (2020) - Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts - [link]
- Jos Hoevenaars & Xandra Kramer (2020) - Mass Litigation in Times of Corona and Developments in the Netherlands - [link]
- XE (Xandra) Kramer & I (Ilja) Tillema (2020) - The funding of collective redress by entrepreneurial parties: the EU and Dutch context - Revista Ítalo-Española de Derecho Procesal, 165-181 - [link]
- Xandra Kramer & Jos Hoevenaars (2020) - European Civil Procedure and the Dialogue between National Courts and the European Court of Justice
- Xandra Kramer (2019) - Discussant for professor Mulcahy on her research ‘The Democratic Courthouse? Unravelling the complex relationship between design, due process and dignity in English courts’
- Xandra Kramer (2019) - Updated European Small Claims Guides - [link]
- Xandra Kramer (2019) - The International Business Courts saga continued: NCC First Judgment – BIBC Proposal unplugged - [link]
- Xandra Kramer (2019) - Presentation on ‘EU Civil Justice Landscape: (De)constructing – connecting – inspiring – bridging public & private justice’
- Xandra Kramer (2020) - Creation, main principles, and perspectives of the ELI-Unidroit Model
- Xandra Kramer (2019) - KNAW, domain Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences and Law (External organisation)
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - The application of the European law of civil procedure in the dialogue between the CJEU and national courts
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - The ELI/Unidroit Rules of European Civil Procedure
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - The work on provisional measures within the ELI-Unidroit project
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - The EU civil justice agenda and the ELI-Unidroit project on European Rules of Civil Procedure as a model for Europe
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - Online Dispute Resolution
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - ODR: Advancing Digital Justice in Europe and some lessons from the Netherlands
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - Netherlands International Law Review (Journal)
- Xandra Kramer (2018) - European Law Institute (ELI) and Unidroit (External organisation)
- Xandra Kramer (2020) - Vici grant 'Affordable Access to Justice: Towards sustainable cost and funding mechanisms for civil litigation in Europe'
- Xandra Kramer (2017) - ERC Consilidator Grant 'Building EU civil justice: challenges of procedural innovations bridging access to justice'
- Xandra Kramer & Luxembourg Max Planck Institute (2016) - Evaluation study of national procedural laws and practices under EU consumer law
- Xandra Kramer & M.J. De Rooij (2016) - The application of Brussels I (recast) in the legal practice of EU Member States (Action Grant European Commission)
- Xandra Kramer (2010) - Vidi grant 'Securing Quality in Cross-Border Enforcement: Towards European Principles of Civil Procedure? '
European Law Institute
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- WENEN
- Description
- Member Council
Diversen tijdschriften en uitgevers
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- ONBEKEND
- Description
- Peer reviewer
NWO
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Ad hoc commissielid en referent
Rechtbank Rotterdam
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- rechter-plaatsvervanger
St. ter bevordering van Int. Privaatrechtelijk OZ
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Secretaris-penningmeester
Universiteit Utrecht
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
- End date approval
- januari 2026
- Place
- UTRECHT
- Description
- Hoogleraar 0,2 fte
National and International Civil Procedu
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RL75
European Private International Law
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RB22