Experts & Expertise

Barendrecht has lead several large scale innovation projects in the realm of justice and governance, which directly address urgent justice needs which are difficult to cope with through existing legal arrangements. These interactive research and development projects usually take place in cooperation with stakeholders such as client groups, ministries of justice, the judiciary, or those involved in the supply of legal services.

Examples of innovations that took place under his leadership are:

• Common European Rules regulating service contracts (European Civil Code Project, now part of the draft Common Frame of Reference for European Contract Law)
• A Code of Conduct for Settling Personal Injury claims (developed with and now accepted by a large majority of insurance companies and organizations representing victims)
• A strategic agenda for improving access to justice, developed for the UN High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor together with international experts (Making the Law Work for Everyone 2008, Report Working Group I on Access to Justice)
• An approach for effective legal aid, improving access to justice with lower costs (developed with legal aid stakeholders in the Netherlands; accepted as a policy by Dutch Ministry of Justice and Parliament in 2008).
• Internet applications for legal advice and online divorce (developed with stakeholders and client panels; now in operation as Rechtwijzer.nl by the Dutch legal aid board)
• A tool with handbook for measuring access to justice (now used in 20 countries and the handbook downloaded 6000 times).
• The concept and methods of Microjustice, now being developed further in cooperation with NGO's and legal services providers.

• Justice
• Law and economics
• Regulatory burden
• Rule of law

1982-1992 Attorney at law (from 1989 partner) De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague (general practice, contract law, intellectual property law, supreme court proceedings) 1993-1997 Adviser De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (part time) 2005-2009 Member Raad voor de Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling (Government Advisory Council on Social Infrastructure) (part time) 1993- Professor of private law Tilburg University (law of obligations, civil procedure, Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (Tilec), International Victimology Institute Tilburg (Intervict))

PhD candidates

I. Giesen (26 januari 2001) Bewijs en aansprakelijkheid

E.J.A.M. van den Akker (9 maart 2001) Beroepsaansprakelijkheid ten opzichte van derden

J.H. Duyvensz (25 april 2003) De redelijkheid van de exoneratieclausule

A. Pinna (27 oktober 2003) The obligations to inform and to advise

W.C.T. Weterings (24 maart 2004) Efficiëntere en effectievere afwikkeling van letselschadeclaims

R.H.J. van Bijnen (24 juni 2005, Cum laude) Economische en sociale normen in het contractenrecht

R.M.P.P. Cascao (28 november 2005) Prevention and Compensation of Treatment Injury

M.W. de Hoon (14 december 2005) Opzegging van duurovereenkomsten

L.R. van Harinxma thoe Slooten (17 maart 2006) Toegang tot het recht in perszaken

S. van Gulijk (17 december 2008) European Architect Law. Towards a New Design

Y.P. Kamminga (17 december 2008) Towards Effective Governance Structures for Contractual Relations. Recommendations from Social Psychology, Economics and Law for Improving Project Performance in Infrastructure Projects

V.C. Ammerlaan (9 januari 2009) Na de ramp: de rol van de overheid bij de (schade)afwikkeling van rampen vanuit een belangenperspectief van de slachtoffers

J. van der Linden (21 mei 2010) De civiele zitting centraal: informeren, afstemmen en schikken

J. van Veenen (15 juni 2011) Getting to :-) The Potential of Online Communication Tools to Support Interest-Based Dispute Resolution

P. Sluijter (31 oktober 2011) Sturen met proceskosten. Wie betaalt de prijs van verstorend procesgedrag?

M.S. (Malini) Laminarayan (19 november 2012), The Heterogeneity of Crime Victims: Variations in Legal Preferences

J.H. Verdonschot

R.J. Dijkstra

J.M. Barendrecht teaches the following subjects:

• Negotiation, Mediation en Dispute Resolution (650075) Further information
• Perspectives on Civil Law, Courts and Conflict Resolution (690919) Further information

Member Meijers Committee (International Immigration Law and International Criminal Law) 1992-1994

Member Committee of Experts regarding Unfair Dismissal Law Ministry of Justice and Social Affairs and Employment 1993-1994

Member Editorial Board Nederlands Juristenblad (Leading Dutch Legal Journal) 1998-2005

Chairman Board of Schoordijkinstitute 1993-1998

Member Study Group for a European Civil Code and Chairman of the Working Group on Services Contracts 1998-2004

Chairman Centre for liability law-Centrum voor aansprakelijkheidsrecht (1996-) rated as Best Legal Research Group in latest (2002) Official Review (20 points out of 20 possible)

Member Board Dutch Lawyers Association (Nederlandse Juristen Vereniging) 1997-2001

Member Raad voor de rechtsbijstand (Council for Legal Aid) 's Hertogenbosch 2000-

Member Commissie Tegemoetkomingen bij Rampen (Government Advisory Committee on Compensation for Victims of Disasters; Commissie Borghouts) 2003-2004

Member Committee on Reduction of Administrative Costs Ministry of Justice 2003-

Member Government Advisory Council for Participation and Development (Raad voor Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling) 2005-2009

Member Advisory Committee Election Process (Commissie Korthals Altes) 2007-2008

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