Olha Cherednychenko

Olha Cherednychenko is a Full Professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Groningen. She is also the founding director of the Groningen Centre for European Financial Services Law (GCEFSL). After receiving a Master of Laws in International and European Law (magna cum laude) from Utrecht University in 2002, she joined the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at this university as a Lecturer/Ph D Researcher (2002-2006). She obtained her doctor’s degree in 2007, with a thesis Fundamental Rights, Contract Law and the Protection of the Weaker Party: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutionalisation of Contract Law, with Emphasis on Risky Financial Transactions (Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, 2007) which received honourable recognition from the Dutch Commission for the Evaluation of Legal Research 2009. She then worked as a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the VU University of Amsterdam (2006-2011). Since 2012 she has held the Chair in European Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Groningen. She has also been a Visiting Fellow/Professor at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence; the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), University of Oxford; the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London; and the University of Turin. As a project leader and/or senior researcher, Olha Cherednychenko has been involved in several European research projects, particularly for the European Parliament and the European Commission. She regularly provides expert advice to national and EU institutions. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Legal Science (IALS) that operates under the auspices of UNESCO and the International Science Council (ISC).

The research of Olha Cherednychenko focuses on the role of private law in the process of European market integration and the interaction between national and supranational legal orders and public and private governance mechanisms more generally. She is particularly interested in the following three closely interrelated themes:

1) the role of private law in constituting and regulating markets in the public interest, particularly in the financial markets;

2) the interplay between market regulation and traditional private law as well as the public and private enforcement mechanisms;

3) the impact of fundamental rights and freedoms on private law.

She explores these themes by conducting cross-cutting comparative and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of European internal market law and national law, public and private law, as well as the law and other academic disciplines, such as economics, psychology, and sociology.

Field/Discipline * Law Expertise European internal market law and private law, in particular, contract law, financial services law, the horizontal effect of fundamental rights; comparative law; legal theory

*Selected publications (for a complete publication list see 'Research') - Books and edited volumes * * Cherednychenko, O. O., & Andenas, M. (Eds.) (2020). Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law . Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (Ed.) (2015). Public and Private Enforcement of European Private Law: Perspectives and Challenges. Special Issue of European Review of Private Law, 23(4).

• Cherednychenko, O. O. , Jansen, C. E. C., Neerhof, A. R. , & Verstijlen, F. M. J. (Eds.) (2013). Het publieke van het privaatrecht: hoe regulering van publieke belangen het privaatrecht beïnvloedt . Boom Juridische uitgevers.

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2007). Fundamental Rights, Contract Law and the Protection of the Weaker Party: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutionalisation of Contract Law, with Emphasis on Risky Financial Transactions. Sellier, European Law Publishers.

- Articles and book chapters

• Cherednychenko, O.O. (2021). Islands and the Ocean: Three Models of the Relationship between EU Market Regulation and National Private Law, The Modern Law Review, 1-36.

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2021). Two Sides of the Same Coin: EU Financial Regulation and Private Law, European Business Organization Law Review, 22 (1), 147-172.

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2020). Rediscovering the Public/Private Divide in EU Private Law . European Law Journal , 26 (1-2), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12351

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2020). Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law: Towards a More Coordinated Approach? In O. O. Cherednychenko, & M. Andenas (Eds.), Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law (pp. 2-46). Edward Elgar Publishing. (elgaronline.com)

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2019). EU Financial Regulation, Contract Law and Sustainable Consumer Finance . In E. van Schagen, & S. Weatherill (Eds.), Better Regulation in EU Contract Law: The Fitness Check and the New Deal for Consumers (pp. 61-91). (Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law; Vol. 29). Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=3521472

• Cherednychenko, O. O. , & Meindertsma, J. M. (2019). Irresponsible Lending in the Post-Crisis Era: Is the EU Consumer Credit Directive Fit for Its Purpose? Journal of Consumer Policy , 42 (4), 483-519. https://doi.org/(...)7/s10603-019-09421-4

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2017). Fundamental Freedoms, Fundamental Rights, and the Many Faces of Freedom of Contract in the EU. In M. Andenas, T. Bekkedal, & L. Pantaleo (Eds.), The Reach of Free Movement (pp. 273-292). T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/(...)978-94-6265-195-1_12

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2017). The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Consumer Credit: Towards Responsible Lending? In H. Collins (Ed.), European Contract Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights (pp. 139-166). (European Contract Law and Theory; Vol. 2). Intersentia. SSRN

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2016). Cooperative or Competitive? Private Regulators and Public Supervisors in the Post-Crisis European Financial Services Landscape . Policy & Society , 35 (1), 103-114. https://doi.org/(...)j.polsoc.2015.12.005

• Cherednychenko, O. O. , & Reich, N. (2015). The Constitutionalization of European Private Law: Gateways, Constraints, and Challenges . European Review of Private Law , 23 (5), 797-827. SSRN

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2014). Fundamental Rights, European Private Law, and Financial Services . In H-W. Micklitz (Ed.), Constitutionalization of European Private Law (pp. 170-209). Oxford University Press. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475762

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2014). Public Supervision over Private Relationships: Towards European Supervision Private Law? European Review of Private Law, 22 (1), 37-67. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475763

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2013). Private Law Discourse and Scholarship in the Wake of the Europeanisation of Private Law . In J. Devenney, & M. Kenny (Eds.), The Transformation of European Private Law: Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification or Chaos? (pp. 148-171). Cambridge University Press. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=2475759

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2011). Full Harmonisation of Retail Financial Services Contract Law in Europe: A Success or a Failure? In S. Grundmann, & Y. M. Atamer (Eds.), Financial Services, Financial Crisis and General European Contract Law: Failure and Challenges of Contracting (pp. 221-258). Kluwer Law International. http://papers.ssrn.com/(...)?abstract_id=1702298

• Cherednychenko, O. O. (2007). Fundamental Rights and Private Law: A Relationship of Subordination or Complementarity? Utrecht Law Review , 3 (2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.45 Other positions

• Member Executive Committee International Association of Legal Science (IALS); Member Advisory Board World Council for Law Firms & Justice (WCLF); Member Institute for Responsible Finance (iff), Hamburg; Member Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies (ACIS), University of Amsterdam; Member Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Centre for PPE), University of Groningen