Clinic Coordinator
28 aug 2025
In the year 2025-2026 we will launch the following projects:
The Nuhanovic Foundation (in English): The project is a continuation of the last year's project and will look deeper into the links between the Netherlands and international crimes occurring in the context of armed conflicts in several African countries. The project spans international criminal law; international human rights law; Dutch law; migration law; conflict studies; political economy and international relations.
Fair Trials (in English): The project will produce a baseline study of the needs and barriers experienced by persons in contact with algorithmic decision-making in criminal justice. This study will be used as the basis for empirical research into lay persons' access to algorithmic criminal justice in various EU jurisdictions. The project covers (EU) criminal procedural law, socio-legal studies, criminology and law and technology (including ethics).
Stichting UAF (University Assistance Fund) and M7 collective (in English or Dutch) : Research into the barriers refugees face when attempting to access higher education or to exercise certain professions in the Netherlands. The research will focus on, but not be limited to, refugees who have a medical background and want to continue working as medical professionals in the Netherlands. The research includes interviews with UAF clients, UAF employees and other NGO staff.
Lawyers for lawyers (in English or Dutch): Lawyers as distinct rights-holders under access-to-information regimes pertaining to environmental issues.
Environmental lawyers around the world face systematic challenges in obtaining access to information crucial for environmental rights cases. This project reframes access-to-environmental-information through a lawyers’ rights lens and explores business responsibilities toward lawyers in environmental cases, including mapping limits and potential abuses of intellectual property law and corporate legal privilege.
Lawyers for lawyers (in English or Dutch): State obligations vis-à-vis environmental human rights defenders, including lawyers – mapping regional (e.g., ECOWAS, EACJ) and domestic jurisprudence in selected African countries to support an amicus brief to the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) on states’ obligations in the context of climate change — including the protection of EHRDs.
Vialto partners (in English): A project examining how the EU Blue Card Directive 2021/1883 and the Intra-Corporate Transferee Directive 2014/66/EU actually work when companies try to move highly skilled third-country nationals inside the European Union. students will explore how the two directives operate in practice, what the main legal, policy or administrative obstacles are, and what could be improved so employers can make better use of those instruments.