Mr. Dr. S.J.F.J. Claessens (lecturer in European Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room C2.306a
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883461
Fax: + 31 43 3884907
E-mail: s.claessens@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Sjoerd Claessens is a lecturer in European Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. He studied at the European Law School (1994-1998) of Maastricht University which he completed cum laude. He obtained an LL.M. in international law from the Univeristy of Nottingham. In 2008 he succesfully defended his PhD on the free movement of lawyers in the European Union at Maastricht University.
Sjoerd’s position does not contain any research component. Ocasionally he co-authors and assists in research projects. His primary research interest includes the free movement of persons in the European Union.
Sjoerd is a member of the Faculty Board as the Associate Dean for English-taught programmes. He is also a member of the Board of the combined Law Curriculum of Hasselt University, the Catholic University of Leuven and Maastricht University. He is a member of the Maastricht Center of European Law (M-Cel) and a member of the Ius Commune Research School.
Sjoerd teaches and coordinates International and European Law and EU Substantive Law at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. In addition he coordinates and teaches EU Law II at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University and Internal Market Law at the Law Faculty of Hasselt University.
Selected representative publications
- The Free Movement of Lawyers in the European Union, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen 2008.
