Staff profile

Barend van Leeuwen is Associate Professor in EU Law and Deputy Dean (Education) at Durham Law School. Before joining Durham, Barend worked at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Barend read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and obtained an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges. He trained as a barrister and completed his pupillage in criminal law at 23 Essex Street in London. After his pupillage, he moved to Florence to do a PhD at the European University Institute. His PhD thesis focussed on the interaction between EU law and private law. In 2017, his monograph ‘European Standardisation of Services and its Impact on Private Law: Paradoxes of Convergence’ was published by Hart.

Barend’s research interests focus on EU internal market law, judicial protection and the interaction between EU law and medical law. He has a particular interest in free movement of patients and doctors in the EU. Moreover, he is working on the interaction between the internal market and medical ethics. 

In December 2016, Barend was elected Lecturer of the Year of the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen. In January 2017, he won the Web Award in the university-wide elections of the University of Groningen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMhK6AHLJ5s).

In February 2022, Barend won Durham Law School's "Law Teacher of the Year Award". In March 2023, he was joint winner of the Law School's "Law Teacher of the Year Award". He was also a joint winner of the Law School's "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Award". 

Teaching Areas

• EU Constitutional Law
• EU Internal Market Law
• Contemporary Issues in Biolaw
• Frontiers in Biolaw

• EU Internal Market Law
• EU Health Law
• Judicial Protection
• Medical Law and Ethics

• Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
• Durham European Law Institute

Authored book

• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2017). European Standardisation of Services and its Impact on Private Law: Paradoxes of Convergence. London: Hart Publishing.

Chapter in book

• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2020). The Impact of the Legitimacy of European Standards on Their Application in Private Law: a Case Study on Professional Standards in the Medical Sector. In The Legitimacy of Standardisation as a Regulatory Technique. Eliantonio, Mariolina & Cauffman, Caroline Edward Elgar Publishing. 110-130.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2019). European Standards and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. In Better Regulation in EU Contract Law. Van Schagen, Esther & Weatherill, Stephen Hart Publishing. 163-185.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2019). The Psychology of Judicial Co-operation: The Preliminary Reference Procedure as a Therapeutic Relationship. In The Transformation of Economic Law. De Almeida, Lucila, Cantero Gamito, Marta, Durovic, Mateja & Purnhagen, Kai Hart Publishing. 317-335.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2017). The Impact of EU Intellectual Property Law and the Charter on Private Law Concepts. In Primary EU Law and Private Law Concepts. Micklitz, Hans-W. & Sieburgh, Carla Intersentia. 241-270.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend & Monti, Giorgio (2016). EU Law and Interest on Damages for Infringements of Competition Law. In EU Law and Interest on Damages for Infringements of Competition Law: A Comparative Report. Monti, Giorgio European University Institute. 1-30.
• Vedder, Hans & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2016). Uitleiding. In Letselschade en Europa. Oldenhuis, Fokko & Vorsselman, Armin Boom Juridisch. 103-110.

Journal Article

• Gimbel, Inge, Mostert, Menno, Van Leeuwen, Barend & Van Leeuwen, Roeland (2022). From Discipline to Quality of Care: How Neurologists Can Learn from Decisions of Disciplinary Tribunals. European Neurology 85(3): 202-207.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2021). Legal Empathy in the Internal Market: Free Movement Law as a Comparative Dialogue. European Law Review 46(5): 625-646.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2021). The scope of application of the free movement provisions and the role of Article 18 TFEU: Allianz. Common Market Law Review 58(4): 1249-1270.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2020). Towards Europeanisation Through the Proportionality Test? The Impact of Free Movement Law on Medical Professional Discipline. European Law Journal 26(1-2): 61-82.
• Verbruggen, Paul & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2020). Het PIP-schandaal tien jaar verder: Een analyse van de geboekte resultaten en nog onbeantwoorde vragen. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (1): 12-22.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2020). Free Movement of Life? The Interaction Between the Best Interests Test and the Right to Freely Receive Services in Tafida Raqeeb. Public Law 398-408.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2019). The Patient in Free Movement Law: Medical History, Diagnosis and Prognosis. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 21: 162-186.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2019). Market Access, The New Approach And Private Law. European Review of Private Law 27(2): 269-292.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2018). Euthanasia and the Ethics of Free Movement Law: The Principle of Recognition in the Internal Market. German Law Journal 19(6): 1417-1436.
• Colombi Ciacchi, A.L.B., Hodges, C.H., Van Leeuwen, B., Mak, V., Micklitz, H.W. Rueda, I., Van Schagen, E.A.G. & Weatherill, S. (2018). Position Paper on the Fitness Check of EU Consumer Law. European Review of Private Law 26(5): 703-706.
• Verbruggen, Paul & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2018). The liability of notified bodies under the EU's New Approach: the implications of the PIP breast implants case. European Law Review 43(3): 394-409.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2018). Standardisation in the Internal Market for Services: An Effective Alternative to Harmonisation? Revue Internationale de Droit Économique 32(3): 319-332.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2017). Rethinking the Structure of Free Movement Law: The Centralisation of Proportionality in the Internal Market. European Journal of Legal Studies 10(1): 235-265.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2017). Vaste verkoopprijzen voor medicijnen beoordeeld onder artikel 34 VWEU. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (3): 62-67.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2016). The Doctor, the Patient, and EU Law: The Impact of Free Movement Law on Quality Standards in the Healthcare Sector. European Law Review 41(5): 638-654.
• Condon, Rónán & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2016). Bottom Up or Rock Bottom Harmonization? Francovich State Liability in National Courts. Yearbook of European Law 35(1): 229-290.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend & Verbruggen, Paul (2015). Resuscitating EU Product Liability Law? European Review of Private Law 23: 899-915.
• Verbruggen, Paul & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2015). Europese regelgeving inzake medische hulpmiddelen. Het PIP-schandaal, de 'Nieuwe Aanpak' en consumenten-bescherming. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (3): 111-121.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2015). La responsabilité des organismes notifiés du fait d’implants mammaires défectueux: TÜV Rheinland devant les tribunaux français et allemands. Revue internationale de droit économique 29(1): 69-85.
• Verbruggen, Paul & Van Leeuwen, Barend (2015). Aansprakelijkheid voor gebrekkige medische hulpzaken. De (mogelijke) invloed van het Europese Hof van Justitie. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht 45(10).
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2014). Private Regulation and Public Responsibility in the Internal Market. Yearbook of European Law 33(1): 277-297.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2014). PIP Breast Implants, the EU's New Approach for Goods and Market Surveillance by Notified Bodies. European Journal of Risk Regulation 5(03): 338-350.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2013). From Status to Impact, and the Role of National Legislation: The Application of Article 34 TFEU to a Private Certification Organisation in Fra.bo. European Journal of Risk Regulation 4: 405-408.
• Van Leeuwen, Barend (2012). An Illusion of Protection and an Assumption of Responsibility: The Possibility of Swedish State Liability after Laval. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 14: 453-473.