Staff members with discipline Law
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.






























EU institutional law
Competition law
State aid










Norm-making (legislation; administrative rules; guidelines, protocols)
Law enforcement (administrative coercion, penalty payments and fines)
Mining damage Groningen
Constitutional and administrative law of Aruba


Right to housing, evictions, landlord-tenant law
Safe and healthy living, local smoke-free policies
Research methodology, empirical legal research, comparative legel research










Selected publications (for a complete publication list see 'Research')
- Books and edited volumes
Cherednychenko, O. O., & Andenas, M. (Eds.) (2020). Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law . Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cherednychenko, O. O. (Ed.) (2015). Public and Private Enforcement of European Private Law: Perspectives and Challenges. Special Issue of European Review of Private Law, 23(4).
Cherednychenko, O. O. , Jansen, C. E. C., Neerhof, A. R. , & Verstijlen, F. M. J. (Eds.) (2013). Het publieke van het privaatrecht: hoe regulering van publieke belangen het privaatrecht beïnvloedt . Boom Juridische uitgevers.
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2007). Fundamental Rights, Contract Law and the Protection of the Weaker Party: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutionalisation of Contract Law, with Emphasis on Risky Financial Transactions. Sellier, European Law Publishers.
- Articles and book chapters
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2021). Islands and the Ocean: Three Models of the Relationship between EU Market Regulation and National Private Law,
The Modern Law Review, 84(6), 1294-1329.
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2021). Regulatory Agencies and Private Damages in the EU: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice, Oxford Yearbook of European Law, 40, 146-171.
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2021). Two Sides of the Same Coin: EU Financial Regulation and Private Law, European Business Organization Law Review, 22 (1), 147-172.
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2020). Rediscovering the Public/Private Divide in EU Private Law . European Law Journal , 26 (1-2), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12351
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2020). Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law: Towards a More Coordinated Approach? In O. O. Cherednychenko, & M. Andenas (Eds.), Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law (pp. 2-46). Edward Elgar Publishing. (elgaronline.com)
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2019). EU Financial Regulation, Contract Law and Sustainable Consumer Finance . In E. van Schagen, & S. Weatherill (Eds.), Better Regulation in EU Contract Law: The Fitness Check and the New Deal for Consumers (pp. 61-91). (Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law; Vol. 29). Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=3521472
Cherednychenko, O. O. , & Meindertsma, J. M. (2019). Irresponsible Lending in the Post-Crisis Era: Is the EU Consumer Credit Directive Fit for Its Purpose? Journal of Consumer Policy , 42 (4), 483-519. https://doi.org/(...)7/s10603-019-09421-4
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2017). Fundamental Freedoms, Fundamental Rights, and the Many Faces of Freedom of Contract in the EU. In M. Andenas, T. Bekkedal, & L. Pantaleo (Eds.), The Reach of Free Movement (pp. 273-292). T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/(...)978-94-6265-195-1_12
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2017). The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Consumer Credit: Towards Responsible Lending? In H. Collins (Ed.), European Contract Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights (pp. 139-166). (European Contract Law and Theory; Vol. 2). Intersentia. SSRN
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2016). Cooperative or Competitive? Private Regulators and Public Supervisors in the Post-Crisis European Financial Services Landscape . Policy & Society , 35 (1), 103-114. https://doi.org/(...)j.polsoc.2015.12.005
Cherednychenko, O. O. , & Reich, N. (2015). The Constitutionalization of European Private Law: Gateways, Constraints, and Challenges . European Review of Private Law , 23 (5), 797-827. SSRN
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2014). Fundamental Rights, European Private Law, and Financial Services . In H-W. Micklitz (Ed.), Constitutionalization of European Private Law (pp. 170-209). Oxford University Press. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475762
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2014). Public Supervision over Private Relationships: Towards European Supervision Private Law? European Review of Private Law, 22 (1), 37-67. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475763
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2013). Private Law Discourse and Scholarship in the Wake of the Europeanisation of Private Law . In J. Devenney, & M. Kenny (Eds.), The Transformation of European Private Law: Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification or Chaos? (pp. 148-171). Cambridge University Press. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475759
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2011). Full Harmonisation of Retail Financial Services Contract Law in Europe: A Success or a Failure? In S. Grundmann, & Y. M. Atamer (Eds.), Financial Services, Financial Crisis and General European Contract Law: Failure and Challenges of Contracting (pp. 221-258). Kluwer Law International. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=1702298
Cherednychenko, O. O. (2007). Fundamental Rights and Private Law: A Relationship of Subordination or Complementarity? Utrecht Law Review , 3 (2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.45






















International Criminal Law
Comparative Criminal Law




































- International Employment Law;
- Digitalisation (Fintech);
- International Corporate Law;
- Cross-border corporate mobility;
- Cross-border commercial transactions.






- International and European human rights law
- Socio-economic human rights law
- Access to modern energy services / energy poverty
- Disaster management / international disaster law
- Environment/climate change (litigation)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Extra-territorial/transnational human rights law
- New/critical approaches to IL / feminist approaches




Als studieadviseur heb ik als doelgroep de eerstejaars studenten. Je kunt bij mij terecht voor begeleiding en hulp tijdens het studieproces. Je kunt hierbij denken aan de volgende onderwerpen:
- studievaardigheden
- bindend studieadvies (BSA)
- het maken van een studieplanning
- (studie) stress, faalangst
- ziekte
- persoonlijke omstandigheden zoals een moeilijke thuissituatie, psychische problematiek of iets anders waardoor je mogelijk studievertraging kunt oplopen.
Het is dan goed om meteen contact met mij op te nemen en dit te melden. Ik kan dan samen met je kijken naar de mogelijkheden en of er iets geregeld moet worden.
De gesprekken zijn altijd vertrouwelijk en er is vaak meer mogelijk in de begeleiding door de studieadviseur dan in eerste instantie gedacht wordt.
Heb jij studieadvies nodig? Je bereikt mij en mijn collega-studieadviseurs via studieadvies-rechten@rug.nl. Voor het maken van een afspraak kun je ook contact opnemen met de infobalie (0503635727).








Maintenance of public order
Police order
Sanction for non-compliance police order






- Advertising and Food Law
- Behavioural Finance
- Protecting consumers by means of information


















EU Institutional and Constitutional Law
EU External Relations Law
EU Trade and Investment Law
















- Restriction system for fundamental rights under the Dutch constitution, particulary art. 8 Dutch Constitution
- Restriction system for fundamental rights under the European Convention for Human Rights, particulary art. 11 of this Convention
- Banning and dissolving organisations under Dutch, German and French law
- Integrated approach on Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in the Netherlands
- Comparative domestic law






Teaching: Public international law; International human rights law; Legal English


























NOTABLE AWARDS & POSITIONS
Prof. Merkouris has received a number of prestigious grants, awards & fellowships (in more detail see 'CV' section). More recently, in 2018 he received an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million EUR for a 5-year project, entitled The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law (TRICI-Law, website at: www.trici-law.com). The project aims to demonstrate that the unwritten rules of international law (customary international law) are subject to a process of interpretation that bears similarities to the one that we are accustomed to employing when we are dealing with written texts, and more specifically international treaties.
In the context of this project, Prof. Merkouris in collaboration with Cambridge University Press, agreed in 2020 to create a Book Series entitled 'TRICI-Law', of which Prof. Merkouris will be the General Editor. The books and Volumes planned to appear in this Series will be Gold Open Access in an effort to promote access to information to the general public in conformity with Dutch and EU policies and efforts towards increased Open Access in academia (see in more detail 'Projects' section).
In 2019, Prof. Merkouris was also selected to become a member of the Young Academy Groningen, and with members of the 2019 Cohort he is involved in the SOCRATES (Scientists Offering CReating Answers To Enquiring Students) and In the LOOP projects (see in more detail 'Projects' section).










Customary International Law
Legal Theory
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
Critical Approaches to International Law








recht van decentrale overheden
regelgevingsvraagstukken








Studieadvies nodig? Mail dan naar studieadvies-rechten rug.nl




















Arbitration
International dispute settlement








Mando researches in the areas of international law, human rights law and international technology law.
With regard to international law, she writes on interpretational and jurisdictional issues before international courts with a keen eye on comparing the practice of different international courts. She is particularly interested in African human rights law and the case law of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights. Within the area of international technology law, she writes on the following topics: human rights-based design and implementation of AI decision-making international law & cybersecurity standards. human rights assessment of the use of new technologies, including issues of encryption, and digital ID systems how international law-like standards are created and used to assess the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in the domain names’ space how human rights law may inform the design of Internet standards Mando is currently working on the project “Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance” funded by the Dutch Research Council investigating the role of public values in the design of cybersecurity policy norms and standards for IoT. Practicing | Advising | Consulting Mando is a barrister and solicitor (Greece, 2006 - present) (currently non-practicing). She is also the legal advisor for Binary, a non-profit organisation on digital rights in Greece. Mando has advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Ministry of Interior of Qatar on Internet regulation and policy. She has given expert input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy regarding the draft legal instrument on government surveillance and privacy and provided written comments. She was a participant to the Research Group on Human Rights Protocols Considerations (Internet Research Task Force) drafting human rights related guidelines to be considered by the engineering community when creating and updating Internet standards.


















Principle of seperatation between church and state
Constitutional law


Of het nu gaat om studieproblemen of meer praktische zaken, ik help je graag.
Onderwerpen waar je aan kunt denken zijn bijvoorbeeld:
- studieplanning
- (dreigende) studievertraging
- studieaanpak
- studiekeuze
- persoonlijke omstandigheden zoals bijvoorbeeld ziekte, een ongeval, psychische problematiek, een onprettige thuissituatie of iets anders dat jouw studie beïnvloedt.
Maar ook voor het bespreken van je toekomstplannen of de ontwikkeling van je talenten en vaardigheden kun je bij mij terecht. Waar nodig kan ik je doorverwijzen.
De gesprekken die we voeren zijn altijd vertrouwelijk.
Mijn aandachtsgebieden zijn: ouderejaars, premasters, toelating,
Studieadvies nodig? Je bereikt mij en mijn collega-studieadviseurs via studieadvies-rechten@rug.nl.
Ben je ouderejaars? Dan kun je terecht bij mw Petra de Jong, dhr Jaap Nieuwstraten, mw Marian Huizinga of bij mij.
Ben je eerstejaars? Dan kun je terecht bij mw Annelina Antonides of mw Stephanie Hoenders.
De vragen die je mij kunt stellen betreffen: studiekeuze, vragen over het studieprogramma, zaken die je studievoortgang belemmeren, vragen over (uitleg van ) reglementen, toelatingsvragen




Sanctioning
Human Rights
















European Law
European Consumer Law


The right to respect for private life;
The collision of fundamental rights;
Sex work regulation in the Netherlands.




Legal: labour law and human rights in private law, legal history.
General: writing skills






She is co-founder of the Groningen Centre for Health Law (former Global Health Law Groningen), which hosts around fifteen researchers focusing on various dimensions of health and human rights. She has published widely in legal, public health and multidisciplinary journals, including Human Rights Quarterly, Harvard Health and Human Rights, the BMJ, and Tobacco Control, and she participates in several international and domestic bodies (see below). Toebes has conducted research in the field of tobacco control since 2016, with a particular emphasis on developing a human rights approach. She frequently acts as a consultant to international bodies, including the WHO and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. In 2022, Brigit was awarded the Legal Specialist Award by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). Key publications include Health and Human Rights (2022, 2e ed), Human Rights and Tobacco Control (open access), and Research Handbook on Global Health Law (2018). Contact: please send me an email.




Bestuursprocesrecht
Omgevingsrecht (Omgevingswet)






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Public order, urban safety, anti-social behaviour and nuisance law.
Data science and legal methodology.








I am especially interested in infrastructures (digital and urban) and the socio-political nature of technology.






Project development, regulation, and transactions




State Aid and Competition Law
As a PhD researcher I empirically research the effects of subsidies on competition. I apply methods from the field of law and economics to assess the impact of a subsidy to one company, on the competitiveness of its competitors.


















Dutch and European private international law, international civil procedural law, international commercial arbitration, international private air law (airplanes), international business law, enforcement of foreign judgments, cross-border tort law, cross-border contracting, international aspects of Information and communications technology law, international aspects of intellectual property, international estate planning of wealthy individuals, trusts, international mass damage claims, litigation in Dutch courts in cross-border cases.


Environmental Litigation,
Judicial Systems,
European Constitutional Law,
The Rule of Law in Europe,
EU Gambling Legislation,
Comparative Federalism.








Property Law & Catholic Social Teaching



