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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CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue Tilburg Law Review ‘Technology as a Connector of Organizations in a Socially Sustainable World’
22nd April 2024Steffie Vereijken- van den Bosch, together with Alina Onţanu and Ane Aranguiz, have put together this Call for Papers with the goal of better understanding the influence of technology on connecting organizations and fostering social sustainability by putting people first in the development processes of our global economies. It strives to explore the multifaceted dimensions of this influence and the extent to which social inclusion, resilient societies and people’s empowerment are being promoted while addressing both its potential and limitations. We welcome papers from various different perspectives (check the call!).
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Performance by Jan Cremers on labor migration at pop-up editorial for local issues
19th April 2024Starting from April 24, journalists from the TV program Pointer and Brabants Dagblad will conduct a month-long investigation into issues that residents in Noord-Brabant feel need to be explored. Labor sociologist Jan Cremers of Tilburg Law School will participate in the kick-off 'meet-up' of Pointer with a contribution on labor migration.
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Apple Seminar 'Appellate Jurisprudence in 2024: socially effective or not (at all)?'
19th April 2024On May 24, 2024, the Apple Seminar 'Appellate Jurisprudence in 2024: Socially Effective or Not (at all)?' will take place at the Court of Appeal in 's-Hertogenbosch. The seminar is an initiative of Nadine Groeneveld-Tijssens (appellate attorney at AKD and special professor of appellate jurisprudence at Tilburg University) and Sjoerd Bakker (judge at the Court of Appeal in Arnhem-Leeuwarden and special professor of judiciary at Radboud University Nijmegen) in collaboration with the Court of Appeal in 's-Hertogenbosch. Registration is possible until May 10, 2024. (In Dutch).