The central research question is the following:
How do legal norms, institutions, mechanisms and processes beyond the state impact on democracy, the rule of law and effective legal protection within the Dutch state, and which (new) legal norms, institutions, mechanisms and processes beyond and within the Dutch state can facilitate, reclaim and strengthen democracy, the rule of law and effective legal protection within the Netherlands?
Projects theme 1
- A postwar history of the reception of international, European and transnational law in the Netherlands
- The judiciary and the separation of powers
- New mechanisms to strengthen democracy, the rule of law and effective legal protection in the Dutch multi-layered legal order
Research team
- Tom Herrenberg, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Theory
- Ronald Janse, Professor of Legal theory
- Marijke Malsch, Professor of Empirical Legal Studies
- Janneke Vink, Assistant Professor of Legal Theory
- Jan Willem Sap, Professor of European Law
- Mirjam van Schaik, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Theory
- Carla Zoethout,, Professor of Constitutional Law