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 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 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).
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News
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Special issue European Journal of Risk Regulation
22nd December 2022NEW LIABILITIES IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS - This month a new Special Issue appeared with the European Journal of Risk Regulation (Cambridge UP) under the editorship of Paul Verbruggen
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Migrant workers dare not make a case when labor law problems arise
22nd December 2022Labor migrants especially in the lowest income groups have more frequent labor disputes than the Dutch working population, but do not dare to file formal cases about them for fear of being fired. Those are the main conclusions in the recently published report, which Tilburg University researchers Anna Sobczyk-Turek and Jan Cremers collaborated on for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.
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In-Work Poverty in Europe conference on 26 january 2023
15th December 2022Paul Schoukens, Ane Aranguiz, Mijke Houwerzijl and Nuna Zekić will be speakers during the forthcoming International Conference on ' In-Work Poverty in Europe' on January 26 in Brussels.
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ELI Young Lawyers Award
15th December 2022The ELI Young Lawyers Award was established in 2016 to give voice to young lawyers while fulfilling ELI’s core mission of improving the quality of law in Europe.
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Blog by Nuna Zekić on non-compete clauses in employment contracts
05th December 2022Nuna Zekić wrote a blog on non-compete clauses in employment contracts. They are frequently used in many countries even when employees have no access to employer's trade secrets or other intangible assets