Gijs van Dijck (G.)

Gijs integrates legal, empirical, and computational analysis in order to improve the description, application, understanding, and evaluation of the law. He has taught courses on tort law, contract law, property law, empirical legal research, and computational legal research. Gijs has published in top journals including the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He has been a speaker at various conferences, including ones at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Duke and Cornell. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2011. 

Gijs is Professor of Private Law, (co-)director of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, Principal Investigator at Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), and researcher at M-EPLI.

Expertise

  • Tort Law
  • Contract Law
  • Insolvency Law
  • Legal Analytics ('Big Data') and Law
  • Empirical Legal Research
  • Legal Research Methodology

Professional career history

2017 (September) – present: Department Head (Department of Private Law), Maastricht University

2017 (January) – present: Program Leader Maastricht University, Liability and Insurance Program (Ius Commune Research School)

2016 (September) – present: Full Professor, Professor of Private Law, Maastricht University

2016 (October) – present: Co-Director of Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI)

2014 (May) – 2016 (August): Director of Studies (Research Master in Law), Tilburg University (the Netherlands)

2014 (September) – 2016 (August): Visiting Lecturer, KU Leuven (Belgium)

2009 – 2016 (August): Associate Professor at the Department of Private Law, Tilburg University)

2012-present:    Judge (part-time) at the Court of Breda, the Netherlands

2011:              Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, CA, United States

2010-2014:      Affiliated with the Methodology Department, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University

2006-2009:       Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

2006:              Doctor in Law (Ph.D.), Tilburg University, the Netherlands

G. van Dijck

Full professor - Key domain chair
Private Law, Faculty of Law
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