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O.O. (Olha) Cherednychenko, Prof

Professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law
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o.o.cherednychenko rug.nl

Field/Discipline

Expertise

EU internal market law, market regulation, private law, contract law, financial law, fundamental rights, comparative law, and legal theory

Selected key 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. (2024). On the Bumpy Road to Responsible Lending in the Digital Marketplace: The New EU Consumer Credit Directive, Journal of Consumer Policy, 47(2), 241-270.
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2023). Private Enforcement of EU Law. In M. Scholten (Ed.), Research Handbook on the Enforcement of EU Law (pp. 19-37). Edward Elgar Publishing. Cherednychenko, O.O. (2021). Islands and the Ocean: Three Models of the Relationship between EU Market Regulation and National Private Law, Modern Law Review, 84(6), 1294-1329.
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2021). Regulatory Agencies and Private Damages in the EU: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice,  Oxford Yearbook of European Law, 40, 146-171.
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. 
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.
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.
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. 
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. Cherednychenko, O.O. (2016). Cooperative or Competitive? Private Regulators and Public Supervisors in the Post-Crisis European Financial Services LandscapePolicy & Society, 35(1), 103-114. 
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.
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.
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2014). Public Supervision over Private Relationships: Towards European Supervision Private Law? European Review of Private Law, 22(1), 37-67.
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.
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.
Cherednychenko, O.O. (2007). Fundamental Rights and Private Law: A Relationship of Subordination or Complementarity? Utrecht Law Review, 3(2), 1-25. 

Other positions

Member Executive Committee International Association of Legal Science (IALS); Member Advisory Board World Council for Law Firms & Justice (WCLF); Member Editorial Advisory Board Law and Financial Markets Review; Member Advisory Board London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law Book Series; Member Institute for Responsible Finance (iff), Hamburg; Member Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies (ACIS), University of Amsterdam; Director Groningen Centre for European Financial Services Law (GCEFSL), University of Groningen; Member Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Centre for PPE), University of Groningen; Chair Programme Committee Research Master, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen; Member Board of Examiners, Honours College, University of Groningen
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Contact information

Oude Boteringestraat 18
9712 GH Groningen
The Netherlands