Rotterdam

Studying in Rotterdam

Director:
Prof. Dr. Michael Faure

Coordinator:
Dr. Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
Tel.: +31-10-408 8683

Contact :
Marianne Breijer (For administrative matters)
Tel.: +31-10-408 2193
Email.: ue.dhp-elde@madrettor

Postal Address:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus School of Law
Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE)
P.O. Box 1738
NL-3000 DR Rotterdam

Director

Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure LL.M. studied law at the University of Antwerp (licenciate in law 1982) and criminology at the University of Gent (licenciated in criminology 1983). He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School (1984) and a doctor iuris from the Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau. He was first a lecturer and then a senior lecturer at the department of criminal law of the law faculty of Leiden University (1988-1999) and became academic director of the Maastricht European institute for transnational legal research (METRO) and professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at the law faculty of Maastricht University in September 1991. He still holds both positions today. In addition, he is academic director of the Ius Commune Research School and member of the board of directors of Ectil. Since 1982 he is equally attorney at the Antwerp Bar. He publishes in the areas of environmental (criminal) law, tort and insurance and economic analysis of (accident) law. He has taught environmental law and economics, strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid van de rechtspersoon, European law and economics, economic analysis of law, milieustrafrecht in Belgi?, droit penal de l'environnement, les Principes de Responsabilit? Civile et les Dommages Caus?s ? l'Environnement. Prof. Faure is also Director of the European Doctorate in Law and Economics Programme.

Teaching Staff

Dr. Alessandra Arcuri, LL.M, is Associate Professor of Law & Economics and International Economic Law. She holds a law degree with honours from Rome's La Sapienza University (1997), an LL.M in Law and Economics with honours from Utrecht University (1998) and a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam (2005). In 2003-2004 Dr. Arcuri was a Global Fellow at NYU Law School and in Spring 2001 she was Marie Curie Fellow at Hamburg University. Dr. Arcuri has taught Law & Economics courses in different countries (The Netherlands, Sweden, Togo and Italy). Her research deals with topics of risk law and international economic law; she has published several articles on these issues.

Prof. Dr. Van den Bergh is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
His main fields of interest are the economic analysis of competition law, harmonisation of private law, and safety and security in society.
From 1987 until 2001 he was President of the European Association of Law and Economics. From February 2000 until February 2005 he was Director of the EMLE Programme. Since October 2004, he is the Erasmus Mundus Coordinator of the EMLE Programme.

Dr. Alessio M. Pacces is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law and a Research Associate of the ECGI. He holds a degree in economics from Rome's LUISS Guido Carli (cum laude, 1994), a European Master in Law and Economics (with distinction, 1995), and a PhD from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (cum laude, 2008). Before joining the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, he was senior researcher in the Law and Economics Research Department of the Italian Central Bank (Banca d’Italia). Previously, he worked for the Italian Securities Authority (Consob) and served as junior officer in the Italian Financial Police.
His main research interests are in comparative law and economics, corporate governance, and the economics of financial regulation.

Dr. Louis Visscher, LL.M. holds an economics degree (international economics, 1993) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a law degree (civil law, cum laude, 1994) from the same university. He has written his PhD dissertation in Rotterdam on the economic analysis of Dutch tort law (2005). He currently is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics.
Louis has taught the course 'Game Theory for Lawyers' in the Competition Law and Economics LL.M. programme, and the course 'Law and Economics' in the Rotterdam LL.M. He teaches the course 'Economic Analysis of Torts and Insurance' in the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) as well as the course 'Law and Economics' in the Rotterdam bachelor (this course has replaced the masters course in Rotterdam). Furthermore, he lectures in the course 'Financial Markets and Monitoring', 'Law and Economics in the Courts' and in the minor 'Death and Injuries'. He also provides lectures on Law and Economics for the Dutch Academy for Legislation.
Louis has published on the topics of international trade, tort law, contract law, insurance law, the law of damages, civil procedural law, law enforcement, consumer law, criminal law, labour law and harmonisation of law.

Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics. She holds a law degree (Ghent University, Belgium, 1996), an educational degree (Ghent University, Belgium, 1996), a degree of European Master in Law and Economics (1997) and a PhD (Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2004). She was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (New York, USA, fall 2007) and a visiting professor at National Law School of India University (Bangalore,summer 2008). She is a member of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law. She specializes in the field of comparative and behavioural law and economics of contracts, especially employment and consumer contracts.