Michiel L. van Emmerik, Visiting Professor

Courses Taught:  Introduction to EU Law Seminar

Michiel van Emmerik (1965) is associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. His research focuses mainly on (1) the interaction between International and European Law (European Union and European Convention on Human Rights), and (2) Dutch Constitutional and Administrative Law. His teaching concerns different aspects of Constitutional, Administrative, European (EU and ECHR) and International Law. Special points of interest for teaching and research are human rights and the rights of children.

Michiel van Emmerik obtained his undergraduate degree from the  University of Amsterdam in Dutch Law and International Law. He  served a as a Clerk at the Juvenile Court in Amsterdam from 1990-1994. He was Researcher and Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University from 1990-1999. In 1997 he defended his PhD dissertation at Leiden University on Compensation for Violations of Human Rights (especially the ECHR). His supervisors were Professor Alkema and Professor Hijma. From 1999-2005 he was employed with the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Division, Ministry of the Interior, The Hague, where he mainly was involved with legislation and advisory work in the field of Constitutional and Administrative Law. In April 2005 he was appointed associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. He is a Contributor to the Netherlands Human Rights Review/NJCM-Bulletin and Member of the Editorial Board of the Dutch Constitutional Law Review. In 2007 he was appointed deputy judge at the Amsterdam District Court (section administrative law).