Bartl’s research agenda revolves around the relationship between law and social change. At present, Bartl is completing a manuscript within her VENI project, titled 'Reclaiming Law: Legal Imaginaries and the Politics of Change’. In this book, she investigates how the ways in which we imagine law – both the (social) reality on which laws aim to intervene and the law’s capacity to actually do so – shape our sense of collective agency.

As a professor, Bartl will focus on exploring the possible contribution of law, and private law in particular, to socio-ecological transformation. She was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant for a project titled 'Law as a Vehicle of Social Change: Mainstreaming Non-Extractive Economic Practices'. In the coming years, she will thus focus on the question how private law could nurture socially and environmentally.

Bartl teaches several courses, including 'Private law in a European and International Context’ and 'Making Markets Beyond the State: Between Private Law and International Economic Law'.

About Bartl
Bartl has been affiliated with the Amsterdam Law School since 2011. Currently she acts as a director of the UvA’s Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law and a managing director of the faculty research programme Sustainable Global Economic Law. Bartl previously served as a (deputy) director of the UvA’s Centre for the Study of European Contract Law, as well as the PhD Dean and PhD Programme Director.

Bartl has been a residential fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, and a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, Boston University and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg. She is a member of the board of directors of the Ius Commune Research School, and a member of the steering committee of the Euromemo Group. Bartl recently joined the editorial board of the European Law Journal.