Anna van Duin is Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her research concerns the interplay between civil procedure and tort law, with effective judicial protection as the lens through which she looks at private law. Digitalisation runs through her work as a testcase, raising questions that reach well beyond the digital domain: how can claims be realised, individually or collectively, and whose harms and interests are recognised along the way?

This takes shape in three connected themes. The first is collective action and the private enforcement of digital rights, in particular under the Dutch WAMCA, the Representative Actions Directive, the GDPR and the DSA, studied as a doctrinal and a social phenomenon. The second is access to justice and procedural justice, examined from the perspective of litigants themselves, in settings ranging from digital dispute resolution to redress mechanisms for historical injustice. The third is generative AI and civil justice, which Anna examines both in judicial practice and in the law of damages. She develops these themes collaboratively, combining doctrinal and comparative analysis with qualitative and quantitative empirical methods, and connecting national and European debates.

Anna draws on several years of practice as an attorney specialising in procedural law. As programme director of the Master's in Dutch Private Law, she is responsible for the direction and quality of the programme and its two tracks. She supervises four PhD candidates and chairs the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Civiele Rechtspleging (TCR).