Background
Ernst Rozelaar was born in 1961. His professional life developed in the Netherlands, where he studied law at Leiden and later practiced in Amsterdam.
Ernst Rozelaar was born in 1961. His professional life developed in the Netherlands, where he studied law at Leiden and later practiced in Amsterdam.
Rozelaar studied at Leyden University, the institution now known as Leiden University. Law instruction at Leiden began with the university's founding in 1575, and Leiden Law School is one of the university's seven faculties.
The documented record places his legal education at Leiden, the foundation of the legal career described in the other sections of this biography.
Rozelaar is documented as a partner of the Amsterdam law firm Stibbe, Blaisse & De Jong. The Amsterdam firm was founded in 1911. In 1991 it merged with Simont & Simont in Brussels, forming Stibbe & Simont, and the firm later took the simpler name Stibbe. Today the firm has main offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Luxembourg, with a branch office in London.
Stibbe's Amsterdam class actions team specializes in collective redress and cross-border mass claims, a field that also forms the subject of Rozelaar's documented writing. In a paper written for Mass Claims, he analyzed the 2024 revisions to Belgium's class action regime.