Barend Van Leeuwen

Biography

Barend van Leeuwen is Assistant Professor in EU Law at Durham Law School. Before joining Durham in September 2017, Barend was Assistant Professor of European Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (2015-2017). Barend read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and did an LLM in European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. He trained as a barrister and completed his pupillage in criminal law at 23 Essex Street in London. After his pupillage, he moved to Florence to do a PhD at the European University Institute. His PhD thesis focussed on the interaction between EU law and private law. In 2017, his monograph ‘European Standardisation of Services and its Impact on Private Law: Paradoxes of Convergence’ was published by Hart.

Research Interest

Barend’s research interests focus on internal market law, judicial protection, European private law and medical law. He has a particular interest in the impact of free movement law on the quality of healthcare in the EU. Moreover, he is working on the interaction between the internal market and medical ethics.