Prof. Dr. Xandra Kramer
Xandra Kramer (www.xandrakramer.eu) is professor at the department of Private International and Comparative Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands where she has worked since 2001. She obtained her Masters and Ph.D. degrees (in 1996 and 2001 respectively) from the Leiden University, where she also worked as an assistant professor. Her Ph.D. focused on Provisional and Protective Measures in Private International Law. She has published numerous articles and some books in the fields of private international law, international litigation, European civil procedure and and the harmonization of civil procedure. She obtained several prizes and scholarships for her academic work. She is editor of several journals, including the Erasmus Law Review, and editor-in-chief of the Dutch journal Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (Netherlands Private International Law; see www.nipr-online.eu). She lectures on private international law, European private law, comparative private law, civil procedure and international dispute settlement. She has been a visiting professor at the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam and Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and the Association for a European Law Institute. In 2007 she was appointed Deputy Judge of the District Court of Rotterdam in addition to her academic work.
