Anna Beckers (A.)

Anna Beckers is a Professor of Private Law and Social Theory at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Her research interests are theoretical and doctrinal approaches to the central private law institutions. Anna has a strong interest in social theory approaches to legal research, specifically focussing on social systems theory and science and technology studies. Her doctrinal work on private law follows a comparative approach and covers research into the core legal institutions of private law (contract, tort, corporation). Anna also works on questions that link the field of private law to economic law and  transnational law. 

Anna has published her research widely and in different languages (English, German, French). Her work appeared in books by prestigious publishers (Hart Publishing, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press) and highly regarded peer-reviewed journals (inter alia Common Market Law Review, Yearbook of European Law, European Law Open). 

Her projects were successful in European grant competitions. She was offered, inter alia,  a European Commission financed Max Weber Fellowship (2015) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Personal Fellowship (2022). In 2022, Anna received an European Research Council Starting Grant to lead the project CHAINLAW - Responsive Law for Global Value Chains (2023-2028).