Genevieve Noordeloos is affiliated to the Institute for Private Law as PhD fellow since September 2023.

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Curriculum Vitae

Genevieve Noordeloos graduated her LLM Degrees (Civil Law/Notarial Law) with honors from Leiden University in 2018. She also obtained her Diploma in Legal Studies from the University of Oxford in 2016. In 2020, she was awarded the KleijnPrijs for her master's thesis on the lease of circular building elements from a property law perspective.

From 2019, Genevieve worked in practice as a candidate-notary for nearly four years. In this role, she advised clients on real estate transactions and property law structuring, including sustainable apartment buildings and railway station projects.  

Subsequently, she joined Leiden University as a research and teaching assistant, where she conducted research as part of the NWA-small project "Regenerative Medicine in Context: Let’s Start Preparing Society for the Impact." Her research focused on informed consent and ownership related to the use of body materials in regenerative medicine.

Since September 2023, Genevieve is a Meijers PhD Fellow affiliated with the Institute for Private Law, department of Civil Law.

Research

Provisional title of her doctoral research: "Shaping Sustainable Consumption: Leveraging Contract Law to Encourage Business-Driven Consumer Engagement in the Repair and Reuse of Clothes."

The objective of her PhD project is to investigate how EU and national regulation, particularly contract law, can incentivize businesses downstream in the supply chain to engage consumers in repairing and reusing their clothes. Amendments to EU and/or national contract law, as a part of the regulatory framework on sustainable clothing, might be necessary to rebalance the interest of businesses and consumers in the pursuit of a circular economy.
The project will focus on the after-sales phase of (consumer) contracts, examining (legal) incentives and strategies that businesses can implement to encourage consumers to utilize repair and re-use services.

Supervisors: Vanessa Mak and Gitta Veldt.