Alette Jansen joined the Institute for Private Law (Company Law Department) as a PhD-fellow in August 2020. Her research focuses on the position of stakeholders – other than shareholders or employees – in company law. For example suppliers, customers, the government and perhaps even society. In doing so, her research has an interdisciplinary focus, as she conducts both (historical) legal-dogmatic research, partly from an economic, political and social perspective, and also empirical research.

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Alette Jansen graduated from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 2020. There she obtained her double Bachelors in Law (majoring in Economics) and Tax Law, and a Masters in Company Law (cum laude) and Tax Law. For her Masters in Company Law, she wrote her thesis on ‘Conflicts of interests of directors and supervisory directors in a public offer situation’. During her studies, Alette completed several internships at Dutch and international law firms and worked at the ‘Kinder- en jongerenrechtswinkel’ and ‘De Kleine Consultant’ in Leiden.

Alette is now a PhD-fellow at the Institute for Private Law (Company Law Department) at the University of Leiden. Her empirical-legal research focuses on the question ‘To what extent should more expression be given to the position of stakeholders – other than shareholders and employees – within the corporate law organisation of listed public limited companies.’ She also conducts historical-legal research into the changing relationship between different stakeholders of listed public companies, partly from an economic, political and social perspective, and she conducts empirical research into the question of what influences directors of listed public companies predict will come from different stakeholders and how to deal with these factors in practice. Lastly, she makes a comparison to public administration, in which the participation and decision-making of large groups of stakeholders has already crystallised.

In addition, Alette teaches the research course ILS Ondernemings- en insolventierecht and has recently been involved in the subjects Privatissimum for the Company Law Masters, Onderneming en Recht for bachelor’s, and International Corporate Law in the Advanced Masters. She also supervises bachelor’s and (advanced) master’s theses.