Jaap Baaij

C.J.W. (Jaap) Baaij

Jaap Baaij is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Amsterdam Law School, where he taught contract law, civil procedure, and legal theory. There, he also obtained his Ph.D. degree, cum laude, for his research on legal integration and language diversity, parts of which he conducted as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia Law School.

Jaap has published on the methodological complexities of contract law integration, the impact of legal translation on comparative legal analysis, and questions of commensurability in cross-cultural comparative legal studies. He has taught seminars at various universities in both the United States and Europe, and has provided trainings at the European Union institutions. Previously, he worked as a judicial clerk, professional support lawyer, and councilor and board member of the largest Amsterdam law clinic. He obtained Master's degrees in both law and philosophy from Amsterdam Law School.

Jaap’s fields of interest include international commercial arbitration, comparative contract law, and philosophy of language. His current J.S.D. research explicates the influence of municipal courts on the present-day emancipation of international commercial arbitration towards a transnational normative order. It proposes that the integrity of the legal architecture of such semi-autonomous order is nonetheless contingent on a continual coordination of public legal reasoning by national institutions, specifically on the notions of private autonomy that courts invoke to rationalize the jurisdictional demarcations of arbitral autonomy.

Doctoral Committee
Professors Lea Brilmayer (chair), W. Michael Reisman (reader), Daniel Markovits (reader), and Alec Stone Sweet (reader)

Education
Ph.D., cum laude, University of Amsterdam, 2015
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2015
M.A. (Philosophy of Language), University of Amsterdam, 2012
LL.B/LL.M., University of Amsterdam, 2003

Contact Information
jaap.baaij@yale.edu