mr. dr. B. (Benedikt) Schmitz

Assistant Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Contract Law

Faculty of Law

Telephone:

+31 6 3192 1275

E-mail:

b.schmitz rug.nl

Homepage ORCID Research Portal

(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 (with Peter Rott)
(Research project + conference) Digitalisation of Justice: Perspectives from Germany and the Netherlands, 29 May 2026 (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, TPR fund, with Michiel Poesen en Robin Cupido)

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