Xandra Kramer is Professor of Private Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam and part-time Professor of Private International Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In addition to her academic roles, she has served as Deputy Judge at the District Court of Rotterdam and currently sits on the Court’s Advisory Board.

Her research focuses on access to justice and justice innovation, the functioning of civil justice systems, cross-border litigation, e-justice, collective actions, costs and funding, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). She is particularly committed to exploring how legal systems can evolve to become more inclusive, effective, and responsive to societal challenges.

She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where she chairs the Legal Sciences Department, and a member of the Institut de Droit International (IDI). She has received numerous research grants, including a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for the project Building European Civil Justice. These initiatives have enabled her to lead and participate in international, interdisciplinary research teams and to engage directly with policymakers, legislators, and practitioners.

In recent years, she has increasingly focused on achieving societal impact through her work—contributing to more accessible and sustainable justice systems and actively supporting the next generation of legal scholars. In 2025, she founded the European Civil Justice Centre, which brings together and strengthens research and outreach efforts in the field of civil justice.