Susanne Burri combined working in socio-cultural training at local and national levels with studying part-time for a degree in law at Utrecht University. She graduated in 1992 and in the same year was responsible for a number of courses (including social law and law concerning minors) at Leidse Hogeschool. She has been working at Utrecht School of Law since 1993 and defended her Ph.D. thesis in 2000. In her thesis Part-time Work, Equality and Gender in a European and National Legal Perspective she analysed the conceptualisation and codification of the principle of equality in relation to part-time work in Dutch, European and international law, paying specific attention to the concept of indirect discrimination. She was a member of the editorial board of the yearly publication of commentaries by experts on opinions (Oordelenbundel) of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission from 2001 to 2005, and acted as editor-in chief between 2004 and 2005. She was co-editor of the looos-leaf puyblication Flexible Arbeidsrelaties from 2003 to 2006, and from 2006 to 2015 of the bi-annual European Gender Equality Law Review. In the periods 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 she was awarded for excellent research by Utrecht University. She was visiting professor at the universities of Montesquieu-Bordeaux (in 2008 and 2016), Leeds, Sydney and RMIT (Melbourne).

In 2006 she assumed the role of assistant coordinator of the European Commission’s European Network of Legal Experts in the Field of Gender Equality. In 2007 she succeeded Professor Sacha Prechal to coordinate this network in which experts from all the EU member states participate. She has (co-)authored many of the network’s publications. She has combined this function with lecturing bachelor and mastercourses, many presentations and lectures mostly on invitation) in the Netherlands and abroad, research activities (including those commissioned by third parties such as the European Commisison, the European Parliament and the International Labour Organisation), as well as the participation in (Nuffic) projects in Guatemala, Colombia (FEGES) and Mali. She is the senior expert in gender equality of this network in which now 36 countries particpate (see https://www.equalitylaw.eu).

Since 2013 she has participated in the research programme on family law (see: https://ucerf.rebo.uu.nl/en/). She lectures and publishes in Dutch, English and French.

Since July 2020, she is guest associate professor.

Education and training

• 2016 Senior University Research Qualification
• 2016 Senior University Teaching Qualification
• 2000 Basic University Teaching Qualification
• 2000 Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Doctorate in Law (Doctor), Supervisors Professor dr. J.E. Goldschmidt and Professor dr. D. Curtin
• 1993 T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, the Netherlands, Post-doctoral course in International and European Law
• 1992 Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands Law Degree (Meester). International, European and Social Law.
• 1983 Voortgezette Opleiding Sociaal-Agogische Beroepsarbeid, section social cultural work, the Netherlands, degree obtained
• 1978 Sociale Academie, social work, the Netherlands, degree obtained
• 1973 Maturité fédérale, Geneva, Switzerland