Editorial Board
Dr. Pim Jansen (editor-in-chief)
Pim Jansen is Associate Professor ‘Innovation of Public Law’ at Erasmus School of Law and a Senior Associate Lawyer at Van Doorne. His research focuses on public law, with a specific emphasis on economic public law, which includes market regulation, the role of private actors in protecting public interests, enforcement mechanisms, and effective legal protection. Before joining Erasmus School of Law he worked as a Senior Associate Lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Subsequently he pursued a PhD at the Consumer, Competition & Market institute at KU Leuven. During his last academic year there he spent two research periods abroad, at Waseda Law School in Japan and at University of Cambridge Faculty of Law in England.
Dr. Jos Hoevenaars (manager editor)
Jos Hoevenaars is a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus School of Law. He has a background in Sociology, is specialised in interdisciplinary empirical legal research, and has worked on various topics such as: preliminary references to the CJEU, self-representation in civil justice, and digitalisation in cross-border proceedings. He obtained his PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen in March 2018. He worked as a postdoc on the ERC Consolidator project ‘Building EU Civil Justice’ and is currently involved in the NWO-funded VICI project ‘Affordable Access to Justice’. He was the project manager and senior researcher on a recent research project for the Dutch Ministry of Justice and did research for the Dutch Council for the Judiciary. Jos’ current areas of research include access to justice, collective redress and litigation funding.
Dr. Monika Glavina
Monika Glavina is an Assistant Professor of European Union law at the Law & Markets Department at the Erasmus School of Law and a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po. In addition, Monika is the ELS Academy’s research school coordinator (Leiden University) and a member of the steering committee of the ECPR Law & Courts section. Monika obtained her PhD at KU Leuven University in January 2020, after which she worked as a postdoc on the ERC-granted EUTHORITY Project at KU Leuven University and as a postdoc on the Horizon 2020 TiGRE project with the GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp. She joined Erasmus University Rotterdam in January 2022. Monika’s areas of research include empirical legal research, EU law, judicial protection in the EU, judicial politics, judicial behaviour, trust in courts, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and mixed-method research design.
Dr. Nina Holvast
Nina Holvast is an interdisciplinary researcher, who uses multi-method research methods to study the Law in Action. She is appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Society and Crime. In 2022/23 she is also a fellow at the EUR-Community for Learning and Innovation. Her research focusses on courts, judicial decision-making and the legal profession. Holvast has an educational background in law and social science: she obtained an LLM in Criminal Law (cum laude) and a MSc in Criminology (cum laude) at Leiden University. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam. Her dissertation (Eleven International Publishers) explored the role of judicial assistants in judicial decision-making. Her current research concentrates on the functioning of the judicial institutions, the effect of extra-legal factors in judicial decision-making and legal socialisation in law school. Holvast has been an editor of the Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action. She was an academic visitor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and the Judicial Institute of University College London.
Prof. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko holds a chair in Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus School of Law. She is also the co-director of Erasmus Center of Empirical Legal Studies (ECELS) and the local director of the European Doctorate in Law & Economics (EDLE). She teaches the master courses Economic Analysis of Public Law, and International Criminal Law and Procedure. She holds two bachelor degrees in law and psychology from the University of Haifa; two master degrees: LL.M. from the University of Haifa and the degree of European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, cum laude) from the University of Hamburg, University of Ghent and University of Vienna. Elena obtained her PhD degree from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Hamburg (summa cum laude) and the University of Bologna. In the past, Elena worked as a criminal prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office in Israel. Elena’s research is very interdisciplinary with main expertise in criminal law and economics, behavioral and experimental law and economics, international criminal law. In 2019, she has obtained a EUR Fellowship for her project on Nudges and Transparency (the use of behavioral insights in policy-making). Elena is a member in the Editorial Board of the book series Economic Analysis of Law, published by Springer Gabler, and the ESL Research Ethics Review Committee (RERC).
Prof. Dr. Xandra Kramer
Xandra Kramer (www.xandrakramer.eu) holds a chair in European Civil Procedure at Erasmus School of Law. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Leiden University, where she has also worked as an assistant professor. Her conducts research and lectures in the area of private international law, international litigation, arbitration, mediation, and European private law, and takes an interest in empirical and policy-oriented legal research. She is editor-in-chief of a Dutch journal on Private International Law. She was project leader of several studies for the Dutch Ministry of Justice and for the European Parliament. She held a visiting chair at Leuven University in 2013-2014, and has been a guest professor and scholar at several other universities, including Stanford Law School, the Foreign Trade University (Hanoi) and Koç University (Istanbul). She is Deputy Judge in the District Court of Rotterdam.
Prof. Mr. Dr. Madeleine Merkx
Madeleine Merkx is a professor of indirect taxes specialized in EU VAT. She is the program director of the Post Master Indirecte Belastingen (PMIB), post master EU VAT and top level seminar on EU VAT of Erasmus Fiscal Studies Erasmus University. She teaches bachelor courses in VAT and advanced courses in VAT in the masters program indirect taxes. Next to her position at Erasmus University she works as a partner at the Tax Research Center of BDO where she is responsible for knowledge and education in the area of VAT and customs. She is also a deputy judge at the Haarlem district court, a board member of EFS BV and of Stichting Opleiding Belastingadviseurs (an organization focusing on training of young tax professionals that aspire to be a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors). In her research she specializes on the impact of digitalization on the EU VAT system and sustainability and VAT. With her research she contributes to the current societal debate as regards these issues. In her research she applies both an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach. She is on the editorial board of FED (a case law journal), Btw-bulletin and Maandblad Belasting beschouwingen (a journal that offers peer review). She is a regular contributor of several renowned tax journals and is often invited as a speaker at conferences both in the Netherlands as well as abroad. In 2015 she won the Stevens prijs for her publications.
Dr. Alberto Quintavalla
Alberto Quintavalla is an Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Law (ESL) and co-Director of the Erasmus Centre of Law and Digitalization. He received his doctoral degree from the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics and the Department of International and European Union Law of the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam with research about water management. He has been visiting PhD researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the European University Institute. His research interests are at the intersection of environmental governance, human rights and digital technologies. He has published in leading journals, served as a guest-editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and was an organizer of international conferences. He is admitted to the Italian Bar.
Prof. Mr. Sanne Struijk
Sanne Struijk is both professor of Penal Sanctions Law and associate professor of Criminal Law at Erasmus School of Law. In both legal fields she teaches bachelor and master courses. Her main research focus is on the imposition and execution of penal sanctions, related not only to legislation but also to practice and its effectiveness. She is particularly interested in the mutual dynamics between legislator, penitentiary administration, public prosecutor and judiciary. In 2011 Sanne obtained her PhD degree from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam on an extensive study of the legal approach of repeat offenders. As a further result of that study she published an article in the peer reviewed journal Behavioral Sciences & the Law in 2015. Besides various other publications in Dutch journals, she has published several book chapters as well as academic reports. Her most recent publications were an evaluation study of the legal system and practice of conditional release of prisoners as well as a mixed methods study on the effects of penal protection orders on the safety of victims and a comparative study on both the Dutch and the Italian maximum security detention regimes for high-risk detainees. She is also chair of the editorial board of the Dutch journal Sancties, a member of the independent supervisory committee in the prison of Rotterdam, and a Deputy Judge in the criminal court of Rotterdam.
Prof. Dr. Frank Weerman
Frank Weerman is endowed professor Youth Criminology at the Erasmus School of Law and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement in Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD degree from of Groningen University on a study about social bonds and delinquency, and was postdoc researcher at the University of Twente, where he wrote a book about co-offending. His research interests include juvenile delinquency, criminological theory, radicalization and terrorism. Much of his research focused on the role of peers and groups in delinquent behaviour, and he coordinated several longitudinal studies among young people to investigate their development and their criminal behaviour. His recent research activities focus on weapons among young people and the role of social media in delinquent behaviour.