Martijn W. Hesselink
Curriculum Vitae
Martijn Hesselink (Delft, May 25 1968) studied law at the University of Amsterdam and at the Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris. In 1999 he received his doctor’s degree cum laude from the University of Utrecht. In the same year he became a Professor of Private Law at the University of Amsterdam. Between 1999 and 2005 he was Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Private Law. In 2006 his chair was converted, at his request, into European Private Law. In the same year he became the Director of the newly founded Centre for the Study of European Contract Law. Prof. Hesselink is a member of several international research groups including the Study Groupon a European Civil Code and the Social Justice Group. Since 2001 he has been a deputy justice at the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam.
Research Interests
European Private Law, Private Law Theory, Legal Methodology
Key Publications
BOOKS
- Precontractual Liability in European Private Law; The Common Core of European Private Law (Cambridge: CUP 2008)
- CFR&Social Justice (Munich: Sellier 2008)
- Principles of European Law:Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006) (together with J.W. Rutgers, O. Bueno Díaz, M. Scotton, M. Veldman)
- The New European Private Law (The Hague, London&Boston: Kluwer Law International 2002)
- The New European Legal Culture (Deventer: Kluwer, 2001)
ARTICLES
- 'The Common Frame of Reference as a source of European private law', 83 Tulane Law Review (2009) 919-971
- 'A European Legal Method? On European Private Law and Scientific Method’, 15 European Law Journal 1 (2009), 20-45
- 'European Contract Law: A Matter of Consumer Protection, Citizenship, or Justice?', 15 European Review of Private Law (2007), 323-348
- 'The Ideal of Codification and the Dynamics of Europeanization: The Dutch Experience' 12 European Law Journal (2006) 279-305
- 'Non-Mandatory Rules in European Contract Law' 1 European Review of Contract Law (2005) 43-84
- 'The Politics of a European Civil Code' 10 European Law Journal (2004) 675-697
Full list of publications
All articles and some books by Martijn Hesselink are available on line at SSRN (click here)
Full list of publications (updated 24 January 2012)
Teaching
Martijn Hesselink currently teaches the following courses:
European Contract Law
Private Law Theory
Methods of Legal Research
