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Jessie Pool

Assistant professor

Name
J.M.W. Pool LLM BSc
Telephone
+31 71 527 4035
E-mail
j.m.w.pool@law.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3064-810X

Jessie Pool is an Assistant Professor of Company and Insolvency Law at the Institute of Private Law. She focuses on the empirical study of insolvency law in the broadest sense and has particular expertise on topics at the intersection between company law and insolvency law. Jessie’s research has a strong interdisciplinary nature and focuses on socially relevant issues. In 2022, she completed her empirical dissertation on the role of the bankruptcy trustee in dealing with irregularities.

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Jessie Pool is an Assistant Professor of Company and Insolvency Law at the Institute of Private Law. She focuses on the empirical study of insolvency law in the broadest sense and has particular expertise on topics at the intersection between company law and insolvency law. Jessie’s research has a strong interdisciplinary nature and focuses on socially relevant issues. In 2022, she completed her empirical dissertation on the role of the bankruptcy trustee in dealing with irregularities.

Jessie is a Co-Project Leader of the Empirical Legal Studies Lab in Leiden and former President of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies. She is committed to promoting empirical research in the legal domain on both a national and international level. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of European Journal for Empirical Legal Studies (EJELS), the Editorial Board of the Dutch Monthly Company Law Review (Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht) and Editorial Secretary of the Dutch Insolvency Law Review (Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht). Jessie is also an active member of various academic associations for experts in company and insolvency law, such as the Dutch Restructuring Association, INSOL International and INSOL Europe. In addition, she has participated in the NextGen Leadership Programme of the International Insolvency Institute since 2021 and has been a Fellow of the Dutch Association of Insolvency Lawyers (INSOLAD) since 2023. During her research, she did a research internship within the Supervision department at the District Court of Utrecht.

Research

Her research focuses on issues relating to decisionmaking and balancing (conflicting) interests in insolvency and company law by Board members, bankruptcy trustees, (supervisory) judges and creditors. Insolvency law provides an extra dimension to her research, as there is extra pressure on decisionmaking and balancing interests in times of financial distress. After all, when Board members and Supervisory Board members are confronted with financial distress, they might be obliged to take different interests into account. Moreover, in the vicinity of insolvency, other actors such as bankruptcy trustees and administrators enter the playing field, who in turn can influence the decision-making processes within companies. At the crossroads of company and insolvency law, the question arises to what extent there is (and should be) space for societal interests in company and (international) insolvency law. Jessie investigates these issues in an empirical way, which makes her research of great value for legal practice and a valuable resource for legislative processes.

Jessie's research has a strong interdisciplinary character and is innovative within her field. In 2022, her research was awarded the Meijers Prize for best publication in the Coherent Private Law research programme and the Van Wersch Springplank Prize for talented, active young researchers within the legal research field.

Jessie frequently presents her research at international conferences, practice organisations such as INSOLAD (the association for insolvency law lawyers), Recofa (national consultative body of supervisory judges in bankruptcies and suspension of payments) and government organisations (such as the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security).

Teaching

Jessie is Adjunct Director of the Leiden Law Bachelor's programme (±4,000 students) and teaches various courses at both bachelor's and master's levels in the field of company and insolvency law. She also gives methodology and skills lectures to master's students. She provides postgraduate education in company law and insolvency law on topics including directors' liability, corporate governance, decisionmaking and insolvency law. Jessie regularly teaches postgraduate courses to research staff on Empirical Legal Studies, for example through the Kurt Lewin Institute and the Dutch ELS Academy.

Jessie places a high value on educational innovation. In 2019, in collaboration with Yorick van Benten, she set up the Legal Business Game for the master's programme in Company Law, where students participate in practical simulations. In 2020, the Legal Business Game was runner-up in the Gouden Zandloper prize in the category Innovative Legal Education. In addition, since 2022 she has received funding to participate in the 'Flipped Classroom' innovation project with her masters’ course in Advanced Company Law. She intends to introduce new forms of eaching that better align with the needs of students and lecturers.

Assistant professor

  • Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
  • Instituut voor Privaatrecht
  • Ondernemingsrecht

Work address

Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B2.34

Contact

Publications

  • European Journal for Empirical Legal Studies Editorial board member / editor
  • INSOLAD Fellow
  • European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (Past)-President
  • Wolters Kluwer Redactiesecretaris Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht
  • Boom juridisch Redacteur - Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht (MvO)
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