CURRICULUM VITAE

Bram Akkermans was born on 27 October 1979 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studied European and Comparative law at the European Law School in Maastricht (LL.M. 2002). As a part of his studies he spend time at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where he followed courses in South African Trust law and Comparative Constitutional law.

After his graduation, Bram Akkermans was lecturer in European and International Law and Course Developer at the Institute Marketing Management, Fontys University of Professional Education in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In February 2002 he started as a junior researcher European and Comparative property law at Maastricht University. As a part of this research he was visiting researcher in Oxford, Bremen, Hamburg and Stellenbosch.

During his work as a junior researcher Bram Akkermans was Ph.D. representative of the Ius Commune Research School Ph.D. researchers for Maastricht, president of the Ius Commune Research School Ph.D. Council, and advisor to the Board of Governors of that same research school.

Since February 2008, Bram Akkermans is a lecturer and post-doctoral fellow in European Private Law, specifically in European and Comparative Property Law at Maastricht University.

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IUS COMMUNE EUROPAEUM

A peer-reviewed book series in which the common foundations of the legal systems of the Member States of the European Community are the central focus.

The Ius Commune Europaeum series includes horizontal comparative legal studies as well as studies on the effect of treaties within the national legal systems. All the classic fields of law are covered. The books are published in various European languages under the auspices of METRO, the Institute for Transnational Legal Research at the Maastricht University.

Editorial Board: Prof.Dr. J. SMITS (chair), Prof.Dr. M. FAURE and Prof.Dr. E. VOS.

Recently published:

Volume 61: Selected Issues in Equal Treatment law: A Multi-layered Comparison of European, English and Dutch Law, M. GIJZEN

Volume 62: Food Safety Regulation in Europe. A Comparative Institutional Analysis, E. VOS and F. WENDLER (eds.)

Volume 63: Quality of Judicial Organisation and Checks and Balances, G.Y. NG

Volume 64: Suspects in Europe. Procedural Rights at the Investigative Stage of the Criminal Process in the European Union, E. CAPE, J. HODGSON, T. PRAKKEN and T. SPRONKEN (eds.)

Volume 65: Constitutions Compared. An Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, A.W. HERINGA AND PH. KIIVER

Volume 66: Nordic Law – Between Tradition and Dynamism, J. HUSA, K. NUOTIO and H. PIHLAJAMÄKI (eds.)

Volume 67: Ondergrondse constructies in het Belgische en Nederlandse recht, C.

ADRIAANSENS en V. SAGAERT (eds.)

Volume 68: Administrative Law of the European Union, Its Member States and the United States, 2nd edition, R.J.G.H. SEERDEN (ed.)

Volume 69: Vennootschappelijke beleidsbepaling in geval van financiële moeilijkheden; de positie van bestuurders en aandeelhouders, M. OLAERTS

Volume 70: Judicial Case Management and Efficiency in Civil Litigation, C.H. VAN RHEE

(ed.)

Volume 71: Specific Performance in Contract Law: National and Other Perspectives, J.M. SMITS, D. HAAS, G. HESEN (eds.)

Volume 72: Environmental Liability in a Federal System. A Law and Economics Analysis,

K. DE SMEDT

Volume 73: De optimale inrichting van de verkeersboete in België en Nederland vanuit een strafrechtelijk en bestuursrechtelijk perspectief. Een juridische en rechtseconomische analyse, L. DEBEN

Volume 74: Civil Justice between Efficiency and Quality: From Ius Commune to the CEPEJ, C.H. VAN RHEE and A. UZELAC (eds.)

Volume 75: The Principle of Numerus Clausus in European Property Law, B. AKKERMANS