Alex Geert Castermans, Professor of Civil Law, Leiden Law School

Alex Geert Castermans is Professor of Private Law at Leiden University since 2007, and is a Deputy Judge at the District-Court of The Hague since 1994. He graduated from Leiden University (LL.M 1986, Ph.D. 1992), in the field of Contractlaw. He worked as attorney at the bar of the Dutch Supreme Court, from 1992 until 2004, specializing in Labour Law and Supreme Court Litigation. In 2004 he was appointed President of the Dutch Committee for Equal Treatment, a position which he held until 2008. He is a fellow of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School and coordinates the Program: ‘Coherent Private Law'. 

Alex Geert Castermans is interested in the interaction between European Law and Dutch private law as well as the interaction between national private and public law, because every day cases show how difficult it is to reconcile rules of different sources, both international and national.

He is a member of the editorial board of several Dutch Law Journals in the field of Private Law. He is chair of various semi-judicial committees regarding complaints in the field of education and pension schemes.

Tom Barkhuysen, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden Law School

Tom Barkhuysen is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University and a practicing Member (advocaat) at the Amsterdam Bar (Stibbe, Amsterdam – www.stibbe.com). He holds the degrees of LL.B and LL.M (Maastricht University, Constitutional and Administrative Law / Leiden University, International and European Law). He was a Lecturer and Researcher in Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University from 1993-1998. In 1998 he obtained his Ph.D. from Leiden University on Effective Domestic Legal Protection against violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 13 ECHR). After his graduation he worked from 1998-2002 as a full time attorney at Stibbe, Amsterdam. In November 2002 he accepted a full time associate professorship and in January 2005 he became a full professor at Leiden University, which he combines with his litigation work as attorney at law at Stibbe. He is a fellow of the Leiden Law School and participates in the Program: ‘Securing the Rule of Law in Multilevel Jurisdictions'. 

Tom Barkhuysen is a Member of the editorial Board of several Dutch and European Law Journals, amongst which the Netherlands Law Review (Nederlands Juristenblad). He participates in a number of (international) research networks and is a Visiting Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a member of the board of the Dutch Comparative Law Association and the Law and Public Administration working group of EGPA.

His research, teaching and counseling concerns many aspects of Constitutional, Administrative, European (EU and ECHR) and International Law. He has a special interest for the relationship/interaction between these fields of law as well as for Human Rights issues. As an attorney he also litigates in these fields of law before national and European courts.

Tineke Cleiren, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

Tineke Cleiren is Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at Leiden University. In 1989 she obtained her Ph.D. (cum laude) at Leiden University (“Beginselen van een goede procesorde. Een analyse van rechtspraak in strafzaken”, Modderman Prize 1990)

She was Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1991 until 2000. In the preceding period (1997-2000) she was Director-General Legislation, Administration of Justice, Law Enforcement and Legal Aid of the Ministry of Justice. While holding this position, she was member and adviser of various bodies investigating and prosecuting war crimes and adviser for the realization of the ICTY and the Permanent International Criminal Court.

Tineke Cleiren is currently a member of the Board of the The Hague Prize Foundation for International Law, she is President of the Criminal Law department of the Dutch division of the Association for Comparative Study of the Law in Belgium and the Netherlands and a member of the Board of the Carnegy Foundation and The Hague Academy.

Furthermore she is the editor of Dutch Criminal Code and Commentary and Dutch Criminal Code of Procedure and Commentary and she coordinates the research program: ‘Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectiveness’. She is Deputy Judge in the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam.

Her research interests are Criminal Procedure, the position of the parties in Criminal Procedures (judge, victim, defense and victim), as well as the autonomy of and interaction between Public and Private Law and the interaction between national and international Legal Systems.