B. (Björn) Hoops, LLM

Björn Hoops was born in the north of Germany on 21 January 1988. In 2008, Björn started to study Comparative and European Law at the Hanse Law School/European Law School, which is a collaborative undergraduate study programme of the University of Bremen, the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the University of Groningen. It was then that he began to learn the Dutch language. In 2010, he spent two semesters studying Dutch law at the University of Groningen. Having obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2012, he went on to study Dutch and EU law at master’s level. In 2013, he obtained two master's degrees and received the GUF-100 prize (best law student of the academic year 2012-2013). He wrote his comparative master's theses on transaction avoidance in insolvency law. He received the German-Dutch law prize for one of his theses in 2014. Currently, he is writing his PhD dissertation on the justification of the expropriation of property. His interest in land law and land governance developed during his research stay at the South African Research Chair in Property Law (University of Stellenbosch) in 2011 where he did research into insecure land tenure in South Africa’s rural areas. For his research he has been a visiting scholar at the South African Research Chair in Property Law, the University of Cape Town and Columbia University in New York. Björn has been an editor of the Rethinking Expropriation Law series.

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