Martijn Hesslink was appointed Professor of Transnational Law and Theory at the EUI in September 2019.
Prior to joining the EUI, he was Professor of European Private Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he was also the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law. Professor Hesselink is an editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He served as a member of the European Commission's expert group on European contract law and wrote numerous studies, reports and briefing notes on matters of contract law and consumer law for the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Professor Hesselink has been a visiting professor or fellow at several universities, including René Descartes (Paris V), Roma Tre, Católica Global School of Law (Lisbon), Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), Sciences Po (Paris), Columbia Law School (New York), and the Institute for European and Comparative Law (Oxford).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

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Decentering Eurocentrism

Supervisees

Fields of expertise

European private law Private law theory Justice in the EU Democracy in the EU Critical theory Political theory Transnational private law Transnational justice Transnational democracy

Recent research output

HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2023), Alienation commodification : a critique of the role of EU consumer law, Article
HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2022), Anything goes in private law theory? : on the epistemic and ontological commitments of private law multi-pluralism, Article
HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2022), EU private law injustices, Article
HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2022), Progress in EU contract law, Article
HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2022), Reconstituting the Code of Capital : could a progressive European code of private law help us reduce inequality and regain democratic control?, Article
HESSELINK, Martijn Willem (2022), The power of reasons in European private law, Article

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Additional information

I welcome research proposals on:

(European) private law and its theory
EU justice
EU democracy
Transnational law, justice and democracy
Legal epistemology
Legal EurocentrismI

I particularly encourage researchers to adopt normative or critical approaches to law, such as moral and political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory.

Martijn Hesselink