Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor of Business Law, Vrije University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Partner, Holland Van Gijzen
International Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
Director, International Insolvency Institute
Professor Wessels is professor of Business Law at Vrije University,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a partner in the Dutch law firm of
Holland Van Gijzen. He will be a member of the Bankruptcy LL.M.
adjunct faculty and a visiting scholar here at the law school
during the spring semester conducting research in the area of
Comparative and International Insolvency Law. Professor Wessels is
one of Europe’s leading scholars in corporate reconstruction and
international insolvency law. He has served as Technical Consultant
to the World Bank and to the IMF. He co-founded the Dutch language
Insolvency Law Review and author or co-author of some fifteen books
on corporate, contract and banking law. He is the author of a
10-volume Dutch series on insolvency law, including a volume on
International Insolvency Law, published in 2003. He is an
International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a
Director of the International Insolvency Institute.