Biography
Nina Holvast is an interdisciplinairy researcher, who uses multi-method research methods to study the Law in Action. 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. Prior to her PhD she worked at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice and Security and was a part-time law clerk at the District Court in The Hague. 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 is regularly asked as an expert in empirical legal research methods during seminars and in supervisory committees.
Holvast has been an editor of Recht der Werkelijkheid (the journal of Dutch-Flemish Law and Society Association) and is currently a member of the editorial board of Erasmus Law Review. She was an academic visitor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and the Judicial Institute of University College London.
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Work
- Willem-Jan Kortleven, Nina Holvast & Alma Bešić (2024) - From adaptive to reflective law school socialisation: A theoretical and empirical contribution from the Netherlands - Legal Ethics - doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2024.2399918
- Nina Holvast, Robby Roks, Joost Jansen & Joost Nan (2024) - Hét geweld tegen dé journalist bestaat niet: Een mixed-methods onderzoek naar geweld tegen journalisten - Tijdschrift over Cultuur en Criminaliteit, 2024 (2), 53-72 - doi: 10.5553/TCC/221195072024014002004
- Nina Holvast, Willem-Jan Kortleven, Paulien de Winter, Nienke Doornbos, Marc Hertogh & Peter Mascini (2024) - Introductie: Recht in het echt - [link]
- Nina Holvast & Marijke Ter Voert (2024) - Juristen in een veranderende samenleving - [link]
- Nina Holvast, Willem-Jan Kortleven, Paulien de Winter, Nienke Doornbos, Marc Hertogh & Peter Mascini (2024) - Recht in het echt: Empirische inzichten voor juristen - [link]
- Nienke Doornbos & Nina Holvast (2024) - Rechtspraak als instituut en organisatie - [link]
- Willem-Jan Kortleven & Nina Holvast (2024) - De ontwikkeling van carrière-oriëntaties van rechtenstudenten: Over morele dilemma’s en private interest shift - Ars Aequi, 2024 (6), 578-583 - [link]
- Peter Mascini & Nina Holvast (2024) - Does delegation of drafting duties to law clerks result in judgments that show lack of confidence in terms of writing style?: A stylometric analysis. - Journal of Law and Courts, 12 (1), 110-131 - doi: 10.1017/jlc.2023.10 - [link]
- Nina Holvast (2024) - Empirische onderzoeksmethoden in de bestuursstrafrechtspleging - [link]
- Nina Holvast (2023) - Het belang van onderzoek naar de betrokkenheid en invloed van juridische ondersteuning - Rechtstreeks, 2023 (2), 49-54 - [link]
- WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & Alma Besic (2022) - Legal socialization in law school: the effects of two types of professional identity formation (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & Alma Besic (2022) - Legal socialisation in law school: Two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Nina Holvast (2021) - Out of the shadow: professional standards for Dutch judicial assistants (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - NL (Nina) Holvast (2021) - Transforming into a lawyer at ESL: bridging the identity gap via the tutor (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Nina Holvast (2021) - Researching a hidden actor: the role and influence of judicial assistants in Dutch courts (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Nina Holvast & JMW Lindeman (2020) - The Blurring Boundaries between Professionals and Paraprofessionals in Dutch Courts and the Public Prosecution Service (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - A Sanders & Nina Holvast (2020) - International Journal For Court Administration (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & NT (Tobias) Arnoldussen (2019) - Recht, realiteit, risico en rationaliteit (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Nina Holvast (2019) - Erasmus Law Review (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Nina Holvast (2018) - In de schaduw van de rechter, workshop over de positie van juridisch medewerkers en het creëren van professionele standaarden (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven & NL (Nina) Holvast (2021) - CLI Fellowship 'Voorbij het deficitdenken: naar inclusiever onderwijs en diversiteitsbeleid aan Erasmus School of Law'
Stichting Juridische Samenwerking aan de Maas
- Start date approval
- February 2019
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
Communicate your Research
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- EGSL-CR
Research Design 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- EGSL-RD1
Research Design 2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- EGSL-RD2
Law in Action
- Level
- overig
- Year Level
- overig
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RMIN18
Empirical Legal Studies
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RD118
Empirical Legal Studies
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RR118
Thesis master Legal Theory
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RS128
Academic Integrity & Responsible Researc
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- EGSL-AR