prof. dr. B.P. (Beryl) ter Haar

Beryl ter Haar Endowed Professor European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and UW Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She holds a BA in music (oboe) obtained at the HKU (Netherlands), and completed her masters in Law at Leiden University, where she also obtained her PhD (on the EU’s open method of coordination and it’s role for the further development of a social Europe). Ter Haar has coordinated (advanced) master programmes on international and European Labour Law (Amsterdam and Leiden). Her research focus is on new developments in international and European labour law, including forms of new governance and transnational private regulation (CSR, IFAs/TCAs, etc.). With Janice Bellace, Ter Haar is editor of the Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law (EE 2019) and together with Attila Kun she is editor of the book EU Collective Labour Law (EE December 2021). Furthermore, her research is published in numerous Dutch and international journals. Ter Haar is co-holder of the 2011 Marco Biagi Award and the 2013 Levenbach-price for best international publication in labour law written by a Dutch scholar. She was a participant at the prestigious Standford/Harvard Faculty Forum (2010). She is co-initiator of the popular Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition.