Rotterdam

Studying in Rotterdam (Erasmus University Rotterdam - Law Faculty)

Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Van den Bergh

2nd Coordinator:
Drs. Wicher Schreuders
Tel.: +31-10-408.1606
Tel.: +31-10-408.9191
Email.: schreuders[AT]law.eur.nl

Office:
Marianne Breijer
Tel.: 31-10-4082193
Email.: breijer[AT]frg.eur.nl

Postal Address:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus School of Law
Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE)
P.O. Box 1738
NL-3000 DR Rotterdam

Teaching Staff:
Prof. Dr. Roger Van den Bergh
Dr. Alessandra Arcuri, LL.M.
Dr. Peter Camesasca
Sonja Keske (EMLE)
Mr.drs. Hila Nevo
Alessio M. Pacces
Dr. Louis Visscher, LL.M.

Thesis Areas:
Regulation
Tort Law and Insurance Law
Law and Game Theory
Intellectual Property
Competition Law
Contracts
International Economic Law
Corporate Governance
Law and Finance

Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Van den Bergh is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
His main fields of interest are the economic analysis of competition law, harmonisation of private law, and safety and security in society.
From 1987 until 2001 he was President of the European Association of Law and Economics. From February 2000 until February 2005 he was Director of the EMLE Programme. Since October 2004, he is the Erasmus Mundus Coordinator of the EMLE Programme.

Drs. Wicher Schreuders studied economics and graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Erasmus University in 1980. For a short time he worked at the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER). Since 1982 he has been a member of the Department of Economics in the Law Faculty at the Erasmus University.
From February 2000 until February 2005 he was Assistant Director of the EMLE Programme. Since October 2004, he has been the Erasmus Mundus Assistant Coordinator of the EMLE Programme.

Teaching Staff

Dr. Alessandra Arcuri, LL.M, is Associate professor of Law & Economics and International Economic Law. She holds a law degree with honours from Rome's La Sapienza University (1997), an LL.M in Law and Economics with honours from Utrecht University (1998) and a Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam (2005). In 2003-2004 Dr. Arcuri was a Global Fellow at NYU Law School and in Spring 2001 she was Marie Curie Fellow at Hamburg University. Dr. Arcuri has taught Law & Economics courses in different countries (The Netherlands, Sweden, Togo and Italy). Her research deals with topics of risk law and international economic law; she has published several articles on these issues.

Dr. Peter Camesasca holds a law degree with honours from Antwerp University, and he studied also in Hannover, Leuven and Mannheim.
His Ph.D. thesis on European Merger Control 'Getting the Efficiencies Right' was published in 2000. His main research area is European merger control, and he has published a number of articles in the leading European, Dutch and German competition law journals.

Dr. Alessio M. Pacces is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law and a Research Associate of the ECGI. He holds a degree in economics from Rome's LUISS Guido Carli (cum laude, 1994), a European Master in Law and Economics (with distinction, 1995), and a PhD from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (cum laude, 2008). Before joining the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, he was senior researcher in the Law and Economics Research Department of the Italian Central Bank (Banca d’Italia). Previously, he worked for the Italian Securities Authority (Consob) and served as junior officer in the Italian Financial Police. His main research interests are in comparative law and economics, corporate governance, and the economics of financial regulation.

Dr. Louis Visscher, LL.M. holds an economics degree (international economics, 1993) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a law degree (civil law, cum laude, 1994) from the same university. He has written his PhD dissertation in Rotterdam on the economic analysis of Dutch tort law (2005). He currently is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics.
Louis has taught the course 'Game Theory for Lawyers' in the Competition Law and Economics LL.M. programme, and the course 'Law and Economics' in the Rotterdam LL.M. He teaches the course 'Economic Analysis of Torts and Insurance' in the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) as well as the course 'Law and Economics' in the Rotterdam bachelor (this course has replaced the masters course in Rotterdam). Furthermore, he lectures in the course 'Financial Markets and Monitoring', 'Law and Economics in the Courts' and in the minor 'Death and Injuries'. He also provides lectures on Law and Economics for the Dutch Academy for Legislation.
Louis has published on the topics of international trade, tort law, contract law, insurance law, the law of damages, civil procedural law, law enforcement, consumer law, criminal law, labour law and harmonisation of law.

Student Voices

"This LL.M. is definitely a first-class Master. Thanks to a nice, accessible and high calibre faculty coming from all over Europe and abroad, as well as very bright students fellows, the EMLE programme is though-provoking and pushes for students to continuously score off. In this respect, the programme is very challenging academically.

Last but not least, beyond a strong academic interest for this programme, this year was culturally one of the richest of my life. Indeed, I had the great opportunity to travel and study between three European countries and meet wonderful students from all over the world whith whom I built strong friendships.

Even before finishing the LL.M., I was offered the opportunity to pursue a Ph.D in European Law and Economics at the University of Paris II, an opportunity that I was happy to accept."

Aurélien Portuese
(France)

[EMLE Student 2008/2009]

EUA Joint Masters Programme

This project of the European University Association analysed the possibilities of joint degree programmes in Europe as innovative examples of inter-university cooperation and as pillars of the future European higher education development. EMLE was among the eleven programmes that were selected for this pilot project.

Accreditation by NVAO and ZEvA

In August 2004, the EMLE programme in Rotterdam and Ghent was accredited by the NVAO, the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Agency. The NVAO is the official agency in the Netherlands and Flanders to certify that a programme meets the quality criteria as formulated by the Dutch and Flemish government.
In February 2005 the EMLE programme in Hamburg was accredited by the ZEvA, the Central Accreditation Agency of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. The ZEvA is one of the official agencies in Germany to certify that a programme fulfils the national German quality standards set by the German Conference of the Ministers of Education.

Erasmus Mundus Masters Course

The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education. It aims to enhance quality in European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through co-operation with third countries. The programme is intended to strengthen European co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality European Masters Courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.

European Master

in Law & Economics