Marija is Professor of Transnational Private Law at the Amsterdam Law School the Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law and a managing editor of European Law Open. She teaches several courses, including 'Private law in European and International Perspective' and 'Law as a Change-Maker'. Marija has acquired her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, with a thesis Legitimacy and European Private Law.

Marija has held appointments as a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School, Boston University and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg. She was also a Teaching Fellow at the VMU in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Research

Marija is currently working on two research projects. Her ERC funded project ‘Law as a vehicle for social change: Mainstreaming Non-Extractive Economic Practices (N-EXTLAW)’ adopts a broad perspective on private law as a vehicle of social change, exploring the ways in which rethinking (private) law's role in facilitating and mainstreaming 'non-extractive economic practices' may open up possibilities for a wider socio-ecological transformation.

N-EXTLAW draws and builds on the ideas stemming from Marija’s book project 'Shared Prosperity: Towards a New Imaginary of Political Economy in the EU’ (on contract with CUP). In the book project, Marija asks how can we interpret the transformation that the EU is currently undergoing, under the influence of several ongoing crises. She argues that the EU has hesitantly embarked on a (reversable) path towards ‘shared prosperity’, where collective action and solidarity – rather than ‘markets’ and private gain – can be seen as the main drivers of progress and prosperity. Yet this attempt to deliver shared prosperity is a race against the clock: is the EU doing enough to deliver shared prosperity before nativist forces become dominant in Europe?

Selected publications:

Marija Bartl, Towards the Imaginary of Collective Prosperity in the EU: Reorienting the Corporation, European Law Open, Issue 4, Volume 1, 2023. Available here.

Marija Bartl, Imaginaries of Progress as Constitutional Imaginaries, in Jan Komarek (ed), European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia, OUP 2023.

Marija Bartl, Jessica Lawrence (eds.): The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method, Edward Elgar Publishing (2022).

Marija Bartl, Candida Leone, The Politics of Legal Education, in Marija Bartl, Jessica Lawrence (eds), The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method, Edward Elgar publishing (2022).

Marija Bartl, Hayek Upside-Down: On the Democratic Effects of Transnational Lists, German Law Journal, January 2020 (open access).

Marija Bartl, Socio-Economic Imaginaries and European Private Law, in ‘The Law of Political Economy: Transformations in the Function of Law’, edited by P. Kjear, CUP 2020.

Internal Market Rationality: In the Way of Re-imagining the Future, European Law Journal 1/2018.

Contesting Austerity: On the Limits of the EU ‘Knowledge’ Governance (Journal of Law and Society, 1/2017).

Making transnational markets: the institutional politics behind the TTIP ('Europe and the World: A Law Review’, University College London Press, 1/2017).

Regulatory Convergence through the Backdoor: TTIP’s Regulatory Cooperation and the Future of Precaution in Europe (German Law Journal, 4/2017).

with C. Leone: Minimum Harmonisation and Article 16 CFR: Difficult Times Ahead for Social Legislation?, in H. Collins, S. Grundmann, 'EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Contract Law', Intersentia, 2017.

Internal Market Rationality, Private Law and the Direction of the Union: Resuscitating the Market as the Object of the Political (European Law Journal,  4/2015).

The Way We Do Europe:  Subsidiarity and the Substantive Democratic Deficit (European Law Journal, 1/2015).

My publications are available at:

• ACADEMIA: uva.academia.edu/MarijaBartl
• SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1892868

Representative publications:

Market Imaginaries and European Private Law,  Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 2019; and P. Kjear, The Law of Political Economy, CUP 2020.

Internal Market Rationality: In the Way of Re-imagining the Future, European Law Journal 1/2018.

Contesting Austerity: On the Limits of the EU ‘Knowledge’ Governance (Journal of Law and Society, 1/2017).

Making transnational markets: the institutional politics behind the TTIP ('Europe and the World: A Law Review’, University College London Press, 1/2017).

Regulatory Convergence through the Backdoor: TTIP’s Regulatory Cooperation and the Future of Precaution in Europe (German Law Journal, 4/2017).

with C. Leone: Minimum Harmonisation and Article 16 CFR: Difficult Times Ahead for Social Legislation?, in H. Collins, S. Grundmann, 'EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Contract Law', Intersentia, 2017.

Internal Market Rationality, Private Law and the Direction of the Union: Resuscitating the Market as the Object of the Political (European Law Journal,  4/2015).

The Way We Do Europe:  Subsidiarity and the Substantive Democratic Deficit (European Law Journal, 1/2015).