Hendrik L. E. Verhagen holds LLM and LLD degrees from Radboud University. He was professor of commercial law (1996-2001) at Radboud University, and managing director of its Business and Law Research Centre (1996-1998). Since 2001 Rick has been professor of private international law and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, Radboud University, and since 2015 he has also been professor of Roman law at the Faculty of Arts. He was holder of the Conrat chair (Roman law)
at the University of Amsterdam (2013-2014). Since 1991 he has been a member of the Amsterdam bar (Clifford Chance).