Staff Profiles

Professor Willem van Boom

Professor in Durham Law School

Member of the Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law

Contact Professor Willem van Boom (email at willem.van-boom@durham.ac.uk)

Willem van Boom is a part-time professor at Durham Law School. For more information, a full CV and list of publications, please visit www.professorvanboom.eu.

Recent presentations

Paper "Prevention and private law", presented at the Conference "The Ideas of Prevention" (Centre of Comparative Law, Charles University, Prague, 4 May, 2012)
Presentation "Competition for group actions - recent developments in European class actions', at Leuven University staff seminar (Leuven, 25 April 2012)
Paper “Behavioural economics and consumer policy” presented at the Conference “Consumer law – the first fifty years”, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 15 March 2012)

Selected Publications

Books: edited

van Boom, Willem & Ogus, Anthony (2011). Juxtaposing Autonomy and Paternalism in Private Law. Hart Publishing.
Steele, Jenny & van Boom, Willem (2011). Mass Justice - Challenges of Representation and Distribution. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Books: sections

Garcia Porras, Catherine I. & van Boom, Willem H. (2012). Information disclosure in the EU Consumer Credit Directive: opportunities and limitations. In Consumer Credit, Debt and Investment in Europe. Devenney, James & Kenny, Mel Cambridge University Press. 21-55.
van Boom, W.H. (2012). Torts, Courts and Legislatures: Comparative Remarks on Civil Law Codifications of Tort Law. In Tort Law and the Legislature - Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change. Arvind, T.T. & Steele, J. Hart Publishing. 17-30.

Journal papers: academic

Büyüksagis,Erdem & van Boom, Willem H. (2013). Strict Liability in Contemporary European Codification: Torn Between Objects, Activities, and Their Risks. Georgetown Journal of International Law 44(2): 609-640.
van Boom, W.H. (2011). Do Insurers Have to Pay for Bad Behaviour in Settling Claims? Legal Aspects of Insurers' Wrongful Claims Handling. Journal of European Tort Law 2(1): 77-102.
van Boom, W.H. (2011). Price Intransparency, Consumer Decision Making and European Consumer Law. Journal of Consumer Policy 34(3): 359-376.
(2010). Comparative Notes on Injunction and Wrongful Risk-Taking. Maastricht Journalof European and Comparative Law 1: 10-31.
Van Boom, Willem H. (2010). Comparative Notes on Injunction and Wrongful Risk-Taking. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 17(1): 10-31.
van Boom, Willem (2010). Juxtaposing BTE and ATE: the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation. Comparative Law Forum 1.
van Boom, W.H. (2009). De Minimis Curat Praetor – Redress for Dispersed Trifle Losses. Journal of Comparative Law 4: 171-185.

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