CV
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Eva van der Zee LL.M.
Hamburg University
Institute of Law and Economics
eva.leora.van.der.zee@uni-hamburg.de
SHORT BIO
Eva van der Zee is a Junior professor (tenure track) in international law with a focus on behavioural law and economics at the Institute of Law and Economics at Hamburg University faculty of law since 2019. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Strategic Communication Group of Wageningen University where she studied the interrelation between trust and governmental regulation to promote the resilience of agricultural production systems using qualitative research methods. She conducted her PhD research at Wageningen University, New York University, and the European University Institute, where she researched the regulatory space of public and private sustainability standards within international and European legal frameworks (including trade law, human rights law, and competition law) using qualitative and quantitative research methods. She holds two LLM degrees, one in International Trade and Investment Law at the University of Amsterdam and the other in Legal Theory at Utrecht University (cum laude).
Eva has published articles in Transnational Environmental Law, Journal of World Trade, World Competition Law and Economic Review and Sustainability, amongst others. In addition, she has advised governmental institutions in The Netherlands and published in Dutch (academic) outlets, such as Markt en Mededinging, on the role of law and policy to promote sustainable development.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Hamburg University, Institute of Law and Economics
2019 - present: Tenure-track Junior Professor - Positive interim evaluation October 2021 (offers for assistant professorships at TILEC, Tilburg University (2018) and Utrecht University (2018), both declined)
Wageningen University, Department of Social Sciences
2017-18: Postdoc Strategic Communication Group
2015-18: PhD Law and Governance Group & Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group
Title: Sustainability standard-setting in the shadow of the law
Supervisors: Laurence Gormley, Katrien Termeer, Kai Purnhagen, Arnout Fisher
Reading Committee: Marco Bronckers, Giorgio Monti, Jules Stuyck, Peter Oosterveer
2012-13: PhD Law and Governance Group & Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group
European University Institute, Department of Law
2017: Visiting PhD student
New York University, School of Law
2016: Visiting PhD Student
Utrecht University, Department of Social Sciences
2010-11: Student-assistant
EDUCATION
European University Institute, Department of Law
2016: Academy of European Law Summer School: Law of the EU
Ius Commune Research School, The Netherlands
2015-18: Legal research training program
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Law School
2011-12: LL.M. International Trade and Investment Law
Utrecht University, School of Law
2010-11: LL.M. Legal Philosophy (honours program) - cum laude
2005-09: LL.B. Utrecht Law College (honours program) with minor in Economics
Dubrovnik University in collaboration with Utrecht University, Center for Entrepreneurship
2008: Intensive course: Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies
University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law
2006-7: LL.B. Erasmus exchange
Niftarlake College Maarssen, The Netherlands
1999-2005: Secondary Science Education (beta)
ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCE
2022
Organisation of round tables in cooperation with United Nations University (co-organiser)
Establishment of Behavioural Research Approaches in International Law Network (BRAIN) (in cooperation with Anne van Aaken, Tomer Broude, Veronika Fikfak, Shiri Krebs & Daniel Peat)
2021
Member Faculty Council (elected in 2021), Faculty of Law, Hamburg University, Germany
DFG-sponsored conference "Sustainable Development and the Law. Potential and Challenges of Using Behavioural Insights", Hamburg University, Germany (main organizer)
One-day workshop: the Promises and Perils of the Social Sciences in International Legal Scholarship, ESIL-SEDI annual conference pre-conference IG workshops, Stockholm, Sweden (co-organizer)
Online workshop II: Behavioural approaches in international law, Hamburg University, Germany (main organizer)
2020
Online workshop I: Behavioural approaches in international law, Leiden University, The Netherlands (co-organizer)
2018
Three day workshop: Trust, resilience and collective action in bio-based production systems, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (main organizer)
2013-14
Bi-weekly interdisciplinary academic seminars in behavioural science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (main organizer)
2009
Masterclass corporate social responsibility, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (main organizer)
2008-09
Weekly academic lectures, Studium Generale Utrecht University, The Netherlands (co-organizer)
PRESENTATIONS
2021
Presenter (invited) Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort law (BACT) seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Title presentation: The Effect of Mandatory Due Diligence Requirements on Corporate Compliance and Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives. Towards a Smart or a Dumb-Mix?
Presenter (invited) Reinhard-Mohn Institut für Unternehmensführung Research Seminar, Universiteit Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Title presentation: How Do Changes in Legislation Influence Organizing in Voluntary Sustainability initiatives?
Presenter at Oxera “Net Zero Strategies: The Challenges for Government and Business”
Presenter at DFG-sponsored conference "Sustainable Development and the Law. Potential and Challenges of Using Behavioural Insights", Hamburg University, Germany
Title presentation: The Interrelation between Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation and Multistakeholder Initiatives
Presenter at ESIL-SEDI Annual Conference, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Title presentation: How to Achieve a Smart-Mix of Public and Private Due Diligence Requirements Under the SDGs? Insights from Motivational Crowding Theory
Presenter at Compliance NET, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Title presentation: Beyond compliance: stimulating sustainable behaviour through incorporating behavioural insights into the interpretation and application of EU law
Presenter at the Society of Environmental Law and Economics, online
Title presentation: How environmental decision-making could be distorted by tunnel vision. An in-depth analysis of Dutch law and policy on environmental assessments
legislation
Presenter at Behavioural Approaches in International Law, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
Title presentation: How insights on bounded rationality could inform the international law on environmental assessments
2020
Presenter at 11th MetaLawEcon workshop: What do we value? Perspectives from law, economics, and law & economics, CEVRO Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Title presentation: The role of economic efficiency in EU competition law towards sustainable development
Presenter at Authority Consumer & Markets, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Title presentation: Quantifying benefits of sustainability agreements under Article 101 TFEU in terms of human well-being
2019
Presenter at SIDE/ISLE 2019 Annual conference, University of Milan, Italy
Title presentation: Quantifying benefits of sustainability agreements under Article 101 TFEU in terms of human well-being
Presenter at International law conference series 2019, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Title presentation: Socially responsible investment clauses in international investment agreements: a relational contract analysis
Presenter at Socially responsible foreign investment under international law, European Society of International Law, Catolica Global School of Law, Lisbon, Portugal
Title presentation: Socially responsible investment clauses in international investment agreements: an economic and behavioural contract theory analysis
Presenter at Competition law and sustainability: addressing the broken links, SciencesPo École de Droit, Paris, France
Title presentation: Overcoming false choices and distorted decisions. Incorporating societal benefits under Article 101 TFEU
Presenter at Globalization of environmental law and the role of developing countries towards sustainable development, European Society of International Law, University of Cologne, Germany
Title presentation: Behavioural analysis of international law: the case of environmental impact assessments
2017
Presenter at Ius Communce Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Title presentation: Estimating human well-being under Article 101 TFEU
Presenter at Ius Commune doctoral workshop, Leuven University, Belgium
Title presentation: Promoting effective sustainability food labelling initiatives through legal frameworks. Insights from legal and behavioural science
Invited keynote speaker at Next generation governance arrangements for sustainable global value chains, Consortium WUR, PBL, FSC, ITC, ISEAL, MSC, Oxfam, and others
Title presentation: Sustainability standard-setting in the shadow of the law
Presenter at WASS PhD Day, Wageningen University
Title presentation: Overcoming false choices and distorted decisions: the potential of insights in welfare economics, behavioural science and moral philosophy to measure benefits of sustainability agreements under Article 101 TFEU
Presenter at Doctoral workshop on European Law, European University Institute, Florence
Title presentation: Green pictograms on EU foods. A legal study informed by behavioural science
2011
Presenter at Ius Commune Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Title presentation: In between two societal actors. The responsibilities of SWFs towards human rights and climate change
Presenter at United Nations PRI-Mistra Academic Conference, Sigtuna, Sweden
Title presentation: The possibilities of SWFs to promote sustainable development. A qualitative study
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Hamburg Universität Ideeen-und Risikofond 2021, Hamburg University, Germany
Funding for International Scientific Events 2020, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
Hamburg Universität Ideeen-und Risikofond 2019, Hamburg University, Germany
Wageningen School of Social Sciences junior international research grant 2016, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Nomination Best Master’s Thesis Award 2012 Utrecht University: Nominated by supervisor Tineke Lambooy (Utrecht University & Nyenrode Business University), with supporting references of prof. Benjamin Richardson (University of British Colombia) and prof. Beate Sjåfjell (University of Oslo).
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Slow Food Youth Network
2015: Participant interdisciplinary academy on improving sustainable food production
Utrecht University, Centre for Entrepreneurship. In collaboration with Rabobank
2010-11: Participant honours class Sustainable Entrepreneurship
School of Life, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Laos, China, Indonesia, Malaysia
2009-10: Traveler
Enactus Utrecht, The Netherlands
2008-09: Board member, supporting role in starting up (inter)national projects, building networks and relationships, organizing and promoting various activities
ESN (Erasmus Student Network) Utrecht, The Netherlands
2008-09: Committee member, organizing and promoting activities for international students
Studium Generale Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2008-09: Student-assistant, co-organizing academic lectures for university students
AEGEE (European Student Organization) Utrecht, The Netherlands
2006-07: Committee member, organizing events for 100 students and coordinate volunteers
LANGUAGES
Fluent
Dutch
Mother tongue
English
Certificate: Legal English for Academic Purpose (20-07-07), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Intermediate
German
Certificate: German level B2 (17-01-2019), Goethe Institute, Hamburg, Germany
French
Certificate: French level 4 (18-12-08), James Boswell Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Certificate: Intensive Course B1 (23-01-09), Institut International de Rambouillet, France
Beginner
Mandarin Chinese
Certificate: Mandarin Chinese level 1 (05-04-10) Manda Centre, Yangshuo, China