mr. dr. B. (Benedikt) Schmitz

• (Impact) Bremer-Groninger Doktorandentreff: a regular meeting for PhD researchers from both the Department of Law in Bremen and the Faculty of Law in Groningen, in cooperation with the Institute of Commercial Law at the University of Bremen

• (Research project) The Ascertainment and Application of Foreign Law in the EU: Articles 6 and 8 Rome I Regulation (with 30 colleagues from 25 countries; Hart Publishing)

• (Workshop) Protecting Weaker Businesses in Contract Law, 18 March 2026 (€2000 from the Oldenburg-Groningen University Fund, with Peter Rott)
• (Research project + conference) Digitalisation of Justice: Perspectives from Germany and the Netherlands, 29 May 2026 (€2000 from the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law; edited volume published by Springer Nature Publishing)
• (Personal research line) Weaker Economic Agents and (Un)Known Economic Risks in Private International Law (WEAKER PIL)

2025-2026

• (Research project) Article 6 (2) Rome I Regulation In Practice (with 25 colleagues from 23 countries)

2022

(Conference) Taking Stock of Globalisation: the Protection of Economically and Socially Weaker Parties in South African, Dutch, Belgian, and EU Private International Law (€3000 from the TPR fund, with Michiel Poesen en Robin Cupido)