Dr. Nicole Kornet BA LL.B.(Hons) LL.M. (Universitair docent handels- en ondernemingsrecht/Lecturer in Commercial Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room D0.224
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)43 3884811
Fax: + 31 (0)43 3884907
E-mail: n.kornet@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 09.00-17.00. Appointments via e-mail or phone.
Appointments: Please email Mrs Kornet for an appointment, or contact the secretariat of private law.
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Nicole Kornet is Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at Maastricht University. She graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1997 a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours and a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In 1999, she graduated from Maastricht University with a master’s degree in Comparative and European Law (cum laude) after participating in the Magister Iuris Communis programme. Nicole then joined the private law department of Maastricht University as a lecturer, teaching a variety of courses on Dutch private law, the common law, international and European law and European contract law. From 2002 to 2006, she was a PhD researcher. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Contract Interpretation and Gap Filling: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Intersentia, 2006) in September 2006. In May 2006, Nicole was appointed Assistant Professor of Commercial Law. She coordinates and teaches courses on comparative contract Law and international commercial law at bachelor’s and master’s level, she is also the coordinator of the Law Honours Programme. Nicole is a programme coordinator of the research programme ‘Contract Law and Law of Obligations in General’ of the Ius Commune Research School and she is a fellow at the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation. Nicole’s research focuses on the impact of globalisation on international commercial contract law and practice.
Research Interests
- International business transactions (international sale of goods, carriage of goods, payment mechanisms)
- European and comparative contract law
- Private regulation in commercial transactions
- Globalisation of contract law and contract practice
