Commission members

Prof. Ashley Terlouw

Chairwoman
  • Fulltime Professor of Sociology of Law at Radboud University Nijmegen and Chairwoman of the Section for Sociology of Law/Migration Law
  • Chairwoman of the Research Centre for State and Law (SteR)
  • Chairwoman of the Meijers Committee since September 2020
post@commissie-meijers.nl

Willem Hutten, M.A. LL.M.

Executive Director
  • Executive Director since September 2020
  • Former functions: lecturer in migration law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and legal assistant in administrative law at the District Court Midden-Nederland

 

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w.hutten@commissie-meijers.nl

Tamara Karg, LL.M.

Project Officer
  • Project Officer
t.karg@commissie-meijers.nl

Dr. Evelien Brouwer

Vice chairwoman
  • Lecturer migration law and senior-researcher, VU University Amsterdam

Dr. Maarten den Heijer

Vice chairman
  • Assistant professor international law, University of Amsterdam
  • Board member, UAF foundation for refugee students

Prof. Hemme Battjes

Member
  • Professor of European Asylum Law, VU University Amsterdam

DR. ELS DE BUSSER

Member
  • Assistant Professor Cyber Security Governance, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University

Sanne Buisman, L.L.M.

Member
  • Assistant Professor of criminal law, VU University Amsterdam

Dr. Karina Franssen

Member
  • Legal adviser Environmental and Planning Law

Dr. Pim Geelhoed

Member
  • Assistant professor of criminal law, Leiden University
  • Deputy justice, Court of Appeal Arnhem-Leeuwarden

Prof. Kees Groenendijk

Member
  • Emeritus professor sociology of law, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Research Fellow, Centre for Migration Law (CMR), Nijmegen
  • Chairman of the Commmittee 1997 - 2014

Dr. Melanie Fink

Member
  • Assistant Professor European law, Leiden University

Dr. Hielke Hijmans

Member
  • Member of the Executive Commitee and President of the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority
  • Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)/ Brussels Privacy Hub

Dr. Eva Hilbrink

Member
  • Lecturer in European and International Law

Dr. Maarten Hillebrandt

Member
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki

Rob van der Hoeven

Member
  • Partner, NautaDutilh
  • Chairman, Advisory Committee on Criminal Law, Dutch Bar Association

Dick Houtzager

Member
  • Senior Program Manager at ZonMW

Arrien Kruyt

Member
  • Interim Manager
  • Co-founder of the National Bureau against Racial Discrimination

PROF. JOHN MORIJN

Member
  • Commissioner, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights for Human Rights
  • NGIZ endowed professor of the law and politics of international relations, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law

ELLEN NISSEN

Member
  • PhD Candidate, Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen

Prof. André Nollkaemper

Member
  • Professor of International Law, University of Amsterdam

Dr. Marloes van Noorloos

Member
  • Assistant professor of European Criminal Law, Tilburg University
  • President of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists (NJCM)

Teun van Os van den Abeelen

Member
  • Honorary deputy justice, Court of Appeals of The Hague
  • Former chairman of the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs, Department of Justice (ACVZ)

Prof. Jannemieke Ouwerkerk

Member
  • Professor European criminal law, Leiden University

Nilza Pinto

Member
  • Coordinator IDEM Rotterdam, Radar/Art. 1 Anti-Discrimination Bureau

SADHIA RAFI

Member

Head of Strategic Litigation, Dutch Council for Refugees

Dr. Jorrit Rijpma

Member
  • Associate professor European law, Leiden University

Prof. Theo de Roos

Member
  • Emeritus professor of criminal law, Tilburg University
  • Honorary deputy justice, Court of Appeals,  Den Bosch
  • Chairman of the Meijers Committee from 2014 until 2020
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Dirk Schaap

Member
  • Attorney-at-law at Inigo Advocaten

Dr. Anne-Marie Smit

Member
  • Justice, Court of Appeals, Den Bosch
  • Contact point of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters

Nico Tuijn

Member
  • Senior Justice Criminal Law, Court of Appeals,  Den Bosch

Dr. Sandrine Van der Velde

Member
  • Indenpendent expert evaluations European Commission, Writer
  • Former employee Dutch Ministy of Justice and Security, European Commission, Permament Representation of the Netherlands to the EU

DR. KARIN DE VRIES

Member
  • Associate professor of constitutional and administrative law, VU University Amsterdam

Barbara Wegelin

Member
  • Attorney-at-law at Van der Woude de Graaf Advocaten
  • Member of the Advisory Committee on Migration Law, Dutch Bar Association

Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Member
  • Professor of ICT and Private Law at the Radboud University Faculty of Sciences

Dr. Karin Zwaan

Member
  • Researcher, Center for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen