Department of Private, Business & Labour Law (PBLL)
Welcome to the Department of Private, Business & Labour Law, at the crossroads of private relationships, entrepreneurship and sustainability our department aims to provide high-quality research and education in private law, business law and labour law.
Team up with our research activities
In the triangle of Private, Business and Labour Law our department conducts innovative and original research within our Signature Plan Connecting Responsible Organizations, connecting the key areas of expertise of our department, combined with Fiscal Law. In the Signature Plan we investigate how new models and strategies of organizing business and economic activities (e.g. platforms, networks, blockchains) are regulated by the law and whether that regulation needs rethinking in the light of modern society, in which sustainability, technology and servitization become ever more dominant drivers of change.
Existing legal frameworks, including rules stemming from contract law, company law, insolvency law, labour law, (intellectual) property law, tax law, and/or tort law, may not sit well with these developments. Accordingly, they can impede innovation.
However, the legitimate interests that these legal frameworks safeguard (e.g. social rights for consumers and workers) may require updating or new interpretation of the underpinning rules in order to ensure continued protection.
Our department is successful in securing research funding from, inter alia, personal funding from NWO, and funding from Horizon 2020. Our researchers have furthermore written research reports for, among others, the WODC and various ministries. Our researchers are active in national and international research. While our primary focus is on legal research, we actively encourage interdisciplinary research.
We stimulate collaboration in research and create added value for society by bringing the right people together to work on challenging and meaningful problems and by developing innovative solutions.
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Study with us
In line with our research the department of Private, Business & Labour Law teaches a large proportion of courses in the bachelor and master of Dutch Law, and the Global Law Bachelor program. The Department furthermore coordinates and teaches the Bachelor Dutch Business Law and the English Master programs International Business Law: Digital Innovation in Commerce and Finance and Labour law and Employment Relations.
In addition, we provide a large number of courses within other programs of Tilburg Law School, and for Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tias Business School and the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS).
Events
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Symposium: Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws
June 19, 2024
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International Conference Connecting Responsible Organizations
Legal Strategies for Sustainability in Global Value Chains.
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Date 18-19 January 2024 at Tilburg University.
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News
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Future of Work- Rethinking Workers’ Rights in the Digital Age
22nd March 2024Juliana Londoño Polo presented an ongoing strand of her PhD Research that attempts a global mapping of Case Law, Social Dialogue and Legislative Reform Initiatives in the Platform Economy, providing insights into the present state of affairs, recognising the emergence of dominant trends, as well as their implications for the working conditions of this force.
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The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages Context, Commentary and Trajectories
22nd March 2024This book provides an all-encompassing and timely analysis of the EU regulatory framework deriving from the enactment of Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages. In it, you find a chapter by Mijke Houwerzijl concerning the definitions in the Directive and another by Ane Aranguiz and Bartlomiej Bednarowicz on Effective Access of Workers to Statutory Minimum Wages.
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Living and Working Tomorrow (2035) Challenges for Social Security (Administrations)
22nd March 2024The European Institute of Social Security collaborated on a research project charting future challenges for social security (administrations), commissioned by the Dutch SVB in order for it to prepare for future developments. The research consists of three main pillars: Contributions by young academics; Interviews with leading administrators and academics; Identification of future challenges for social security.
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Third-country nationals vulnerable in EU labor market
15th March 2024Employees from non-EU countries within the European Union often find themselves in a dependent and vulnerable position, according to Dr. Jan Cremers of Tilburg Law School in a working paper for the EURODETACHEMENT project. He describes their situation in the EU labor market therein.
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Jan Cremers (TLS) reappointed in management board of European Labour Authority
08th February 2024Dr. Jan Cremers has been reappointed at the end of 2023 for a new 4-year term as an independent expert on the management board of the European Labour Authority. Cremers was involved at an early stage in the preparation and set-up of this new European institution and was again nominated by the European Parliament.