Youri Cremers
PhD candidate / PhD fellow
- Name
- Mr. Y.E.M. Cremers
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- y.e.m.cremers@law.leidenuniv.nl

Youri Cremers is a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Private Law, Department of Civil Law, of the Faculty of Law.
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About:
Y.E.M. (Youri) Cremers LL.M., M.Jur. joined the Institute of Private Law, Department of Civil Law, of the Faculty of Law as a Ph.D. Fellow in September 2023. He studied law in Maastricht (LL.B.), Leiden (LL.M.) and Oxford (M.Jur.). During his studies, he was, inter alia, an editor of Ars Aequi and the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. His Ph.D. research concerns the security rights of pledge ('pand') and mortgage ('hypotheek'), and queries whether Dutch law requires that the person holding such rights also be the creditor of the secured obligation ('Gläubigeridentität'). His interests lie, principally, in property law, family property law and Roman law.
Teaching (2025-2026):
- Law of Persons, Family Law and Inheritance Law (LL.B.-II)
- Civil Procedure (LL.B.-III)
- Privatissumum in Private Law (LL.M.)
- Thesis in Private Law (LL.B.-III, LL.M.)
PhD candidate / PhD fellow
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Private Law
- Civil Law
- Bestuurder