Ewoud Hondius Editor & Author

Ewoud Hondius read law in Leyden and New York (Columbia). He received a doctorate from Leyden and honorary degrees from Edinburgh and Leuven. He is Emeritus Professor of European Private Law at the University of Utrecht. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in Cambridge, Kyoto, Mnster, Paris and Sydney. He has written several books on private and consumer law. He is a membre titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Marta Santos Silva , PhD in Laws, is Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, affi liated senior researcher at the Institute for Consumer, Competition & Market at KU Leuven and appointed Member of the Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies of the European Commission. She received the Europa Prize 2008 for notable academic achievements in several Member States of the European Union. She has been working in academic and policy pan-European projects for the harmonisation of European Private Law since 2005 and has a vast international experience in teaching and academic management. Andrea Nicolussi is Full Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Milan, where he teaches comparative private law and family law. His published works focus on unjustifi ed enrichment, contract law and tort law, as well as biolaw and family law. He has taken part in international collaborations such as the Study Group on a European Civil Code and the Eusoco project and was a member of the National Bioethics Committee. Pablo Salvador Coderch is Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Renowned for his work in the field of Private Law, he is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute and Academia de Jurisprudencia i Legislacio de Catalunya. Christiane Wendehorst is Full Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna. She is founding member and President of the European Law Institute (ELI) and chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is member of the Academia Europea, the International Academy for Comparative Law, the American Law Institute as well as of the Austrian Bioethics Committee and the Executive Board of the Austrian Jurists' Forum (OJT). Prior to moving to Vienna, she held chairs in Goettingen and Greifswald and was Director of the Sino-German Institute of Legal Studies. Fryderyk Zoll is Full Professor at the Department of Civil Law at the Jagiellonian University and at the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrueck. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ternopil and was honoured with the Private Law Prize at the IX St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (Shortlist, 2019) and the Medal Bene Merentibus Iustitiae (2013). He is a member of the European Law Institute and the international association for the judicial independence and world peace.