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Area(s) of expertise:

Litigation - ADR - dispute prevention
Insurance and liability

Practice areas
  • Liability (including corporate liability, professional liability and government liability)
  • Insurances (including policy disputes)
  • Personal injury
Education
  • Civil law and criminal law, Radboud University Nijmegen, 1999 (cum laude)
  • Law, René Descartes University Paris, 1998
  • Drama teaching course, Arnhem Institute of the Arts, 1998
  • Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Antwerp, 2000
  • Personal Injury, Grotius Academie, 2009/2010 (cum laude)

Arlette Schijns

Arlette Schijns acts as a litigator and advisor to insurers, government authorities, and not-for-profit organizations in the broad field of insurance law, damages and liability law.

Arlette specializes in employers' liability, corporate liability, professional liability, personal injury and policy disputes. Besides, she has a lot of experience in the field of government liability. At her previous law firm she defended the interests of, among others, the State in the case of the fireworks factory disaster.

Arlette is also a fellow/lecturer of the Civil Law Department of Radboud University Nijmegen, where she lectures, among other things, the master's course Liability & Insurance. Arlette gives courses and lectures frequently also outside the university, about topics relating to liability law and procedural law. Arlette publishes in various professional journals; she is an editor of the journal Overheid&Aansprakelijkheid, author of the book ‘Aansprakelijkheid van de wegbeheerder’, and co-author of the Handboek Personenschade (liability for persons).

Arlette is also an active member of the Dutch Bar Association; as a member of the Kortmann Committee she advised the Bar about the professional education for attorneys. Furthermore, she is a member of the board of the Instruments Fund of the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague.

Having studied drama, Arlette likes to visit the theatre often in her spare time.