Christoph Jeloschek
Christoph Jeloschek first came to the Netherlands for a European
student exchange program in 1998/1999. After completing his law
studies at the University of Vienna in his native Austria, he
returned to the Netherlands to start a four-year Ph.D. program at
the University of Utrecht. In addition to this program dealing with
the emergence of a European Private Law, he also took part in the
so-called European Civil Code project, where he worked on drafting
common rules on specific contracts, such as sales, services and
commercial long-term contracts (commercial agency, distribution and
franchising).
Upon receiving his doctorate in January 2004, he was offered a
position as a lecturer & researcher at the University of
Utrecht. In this position, he shifted his attention to teaching
Dutch private law to Dutch students in their native tongue. He also
continued to do research and to publish in the field of European
Private Law, which, after years of attracting merely academic
interest, is now being sponsored by the European Commission as a
serious way forward for European legislation in the field of
private law.
After years of research, however, Christoph decided to take on
the new challenge of becoming a practising attorney in the
Netherlands. Since joining Kennedy van der Laan in October 2005, he
has put his comparative law background (in particular as regards
contract and consumer law), his language skills and his
considerable flexibility in adapting to new to good use in our
competition law and information technology practice groups.