C.J.W. Baaij

Teaching

In 2003 Jaap Baaij (1976) took his LL.M. degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2003, specializing in analytic legal philosophy and Dutch and US corporate governance. He has worked as professional support lawyer in corporate law, banking and finance and litigation. Subsequently, he was judicial clerk at the Amsterdam Court of Justice, sector Private and Business Law. Since April 2005 Cornelis is a frequent lecturar in European Contract Law (MA); Contract Law Theory (BA); Litigation (BA) and Introduction toLegal Theory (BA).

Research

In April 2006 Jaap joined the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and started his PhD research on the impact of Europe's multilingualism on EU harmonization of EU private law. He focusses on issues of legal translation, legal interpretation, comparative law and philosophy of language In 2007-2008 Cornelis was a visiting research fellow at the Columbia University School of Law in New York City, for which he received the NACEE Fulbright Scholarship.

Jaap is further associate editor of the double-blind, peer-reviewed e-journal on Language and Law; and volume editor of the comparative legal study of contract interpretation in Europe, under of the Common Core of European Private Law project. In addition Jaap will shortly finish his MA in Philosophy, with a specialization in philosophy of language and legal theory.

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law

Common Core of European Private Law

E-journal Language&Law

The Amsterdam Circle forLaw & Language

In 2007 Jaap founded the Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (ACLL). The ACLL is a platform and meeting point for scholars and practicioners who are interested in the methodological and emperical relations between law and language. It explores and aims to offer an exchange of ideas in the fields of i.e. law and multilingualism, legal translation, jurisprudence, philosophy of language, comparative law, and argumentation theory. For this purpose the ACLL organizes frequent presentations and lectures by prominent international scholars.