Arnoud Pijls appointed as Professor of European and Comparative Financial Law at Radboud University

Pijls' research focuses on different fields: financial law, corporate law, liability and compensation law, and Empirical Legal Studies. He hopes to continue that multidisciplinary approach, which he initiated within Erasmus School of Law, at Radboud University. Trained as a financial econometrician, Pijls also feels at home in the world of mathematics and statistics. With his broad research profile, he hopes to make an essential contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary research within Radboud University's Financial Law Institute. 

In his new role, Pijls will research the further development of European financial supervisory law in the coming years. “Key areas I will focus on are the European Capital Markets Union, the Single Resolution Mechanism, Sustainable Finance and ESG and the regulation of technological developments in the financial sector”, Pijls said.

Pijls will remain associated with Erasmus School of Law as a guest lecturer and Mathijs Giltjes' doctoral thesis supervisor and reflects: "I look back on my time at Erasmus School of Law with gratitude. I learned many important lessons here and had the opportunity to work with very talented and driven colleagues. My special thanks go to my supervisors Maarten Kroeze, Siewert Lindenbergh and Helene Vletter-van Dort and to Anja van Garderen, the programme coordinator of the master's programme Business Law.”

About Arnoud Pijls
Pijls studied Financial Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and obtained his master's degree in 2005. He obtained his master's degree in Financial Law at Erasmus School of Law in 2006, followed by a bachelor's degree in Law in 2007. He then worked for law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for several years, which he combined with an appointment as a researcher at Erasmus School of Law. In 2018, he obtained his PhD cum laude for the thesis 'Misleading stock market reports. Issues of causation and damages'.

Even after his PhD, Pijls remained associated with Erasmus School of Law - first as an associate professor, later as a university senior lecturer. Since 2022, he has been working as counsel in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of law firm Clifford Chance.

Currently, Pijls is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Stichting Yuverta and a member of the Supervisory Board of Stichting Christelijk Onderwijs Haaglanden. In addition, Pijls is active as an editor for the Tijdschrift voor Vennootschapsrecht, Rechtspersonenrecht en Ondernemingsbestuur, and involved in the Tijdschrift Ondernemingsrecht.