Johannes Bernardus Marie (Jan) Vranken (born 1948) is a professor in the

Private Law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

Department of

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. Vranken specializes in Civil Law,

Civil Procedure Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters). These rules govern how a lawsuit or case may be commenced; what ki ...

Jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

and

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in private law on which subjects he has published extensively. He received an honorary doctorate from

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/ref> and built his reputation as a distinguished practician and theoretician in civil law as Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. He has been appointed as Director of Schoordijk Institute of

(Research School for Legislative Studies). In addition, he was awarded the Royal Honour in the order of the Dutch Lion. Vranken is a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

since 1993.

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Prof. J.B.M. (Jan) Vranken
1948 births Living people Dutch jurists Academic staff of Tilburg University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub