Cornelis Remco Van Rhee

Chair of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, MaastrichtUniversity, Faculty of Law. Director of the programme “Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure inEurope” of the Ius Commune Research School. Coordinator of a Research Project on Access to the Superior Courts of Law inChina and Europe, sponsored by the China-EU School of Law (2013-2015). Coordinator of a Research Project on the History of the Central Courts in Europeand the Americas, sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2012-2015). Coordinator of a Research Project on the Powers of the Judge and the Parties inCivil Litigation in Europe and China, sponsored by the China-EU School of Law(2011-2013). Coordinator of a Research Project on the History of Undue Delay in CivilProcedure, sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2005-2010). Сhairman of the working group ‘European Traditions in Civil Procedure’,sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2004-2006). Director of “Foundations of European Private Law” of the Ius CommuneResearch School (1999-2005).