Projects on Class Action by Ianika Tzankova

First, together with Dr Karlijn van Doorn of Tilburg University and a team of researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam, they are in the early stages of drafting a research project funded by the Ministry of Justice into the viability of a public fund to improve access to collective redress in the Netherlands. The comparative approaches highlighted in the Global Law programme will be invaluable in trying to evaluate how such an innovation, pioneered in Quebec and Israel, would work in the Dutch context.

This summer they are also organising a major international academic conference with scholars from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Haifa in Israel. This conference will be held on 30 June and 1 July at the University of Amsterdam. The theme will be 'From collective action to collective redress: Access to justice in the 21st century'. The various speakers list can be found on the conference website: https://www.aanmelder.nl/justice. Among the participating scholars is Tilburg's own Prof. Dr. Christoph van der Elst, who will contribute to a panel discussion on the importance of empiricism in distinguishing reality from politics in collective narrative. That panel will be led by Prof. Deborah Hensler of Stanford Law School. They are delighted to be hosting this event again and encourage anyone interested in attending to contact them at conference@uva.nl.

The conference would not have been possible without the contribution of many international partner institutions, including BIICL (United Kingdom), Dauphine Paris University (France), Leuphana University (Germany), Stanford University (United States), Windsor Law School (Canada), Konstanz University (Germany) and Florida International University (United States).