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Professor, Criminology & inclusive prosperity | Profile
Assistant professor, Criminology
Assistant Professor, department of International and European Union Law | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Coman-Kund, F., European Union Agencies as Global Actors. A Legal Study of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Frontex and Europol. (Routledge Oxon 2018)
- Coman-Kund, F., & Andone, C., European Commission’s Soft Law Instruments: In-between Legally Binding and Non-binding Norms. In Popelier, P., H. Xantaki, J. Tiago Silveira, F. Ulhmann & W. Robinson (Eds.), Lawmaking in Multi-level Settings (Hart-Nomos Publishing 2019) 183-208
Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Theory and Methodology
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Desmet, P. T., & Engel, C. (2021).
People are conditional rule followers. Journal of Economic Psychology, 85, 102384. - Desmet, P.T.M., Weber, F. (2021).
Infringers’ willingness to pay compensation versus fines. European Journal of Law and Economics (2021). - Reinders Folmer, C. P., Desmet, P. T. M., & Van Boom, W. H. (2019).
Beyond compensation? Examining the role of apologies in the restoration of victims’ needs in simulated tort cases. Law and Human Behavior, 43(4), 329–341.
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics |
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Engel, Christoph, and Nina Grgic-Hlaca, Machine Advice with a Warning about Machine Limitations. Experimentally Testing the Solution Mandated by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Journal of Legal Analysis, forthcoming.
- Engel, Christoph, Alon Klement, and Keren Weinshall. "Diffusion of legal innovations: The case of Israeli class actions." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 15, no. 4 (2018): 708-731.
- Engel, Christoph, and Lilia Zhurakhovska. "You are in charge: Experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office." The Journal of Legal Studies 46, no. 1 (2017): 1-50.
Associate professor, Criminology
Professor, Applied Econometrics and Marketing Research | Profile | Methods: Econometrics, Time Series Analysis
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- “Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics”, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004 (with Christiaan Heij, Paul de Boer, Teun Kloek and Herman van Dijk) (ISBN 0-19-926801-0)
- "Time series models for business and economic forecasting, Second revised edition" (with Dick van Dijk and Anne Opschoor), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014 (ISBN 978-0-521-52091-1);
- “Enjoyable Econometrics”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (ISBN 978-1-316-61647-5)
Assistant Professor, Law & Markets
- Glavina Monika (2020) ‘‘To Submit or Not to Submit – That Is the (Preliminary) Question’: Explaining National Judges’ Reluctance to Participate in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure’, Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy.
- Glavina Monika and Leijon Karin (2022) ‘Passive for the same reasons? Exploring why national judges do not request preliminary rulings from the CJEU’, in Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.
- Dyevre Arthur, Glavina Monika, Atanasova, Angelina (2020) ‘Who refers most? Institutional incentives and judicial participation in the preliminary ruling system’, Journal of European Public Policy.
Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Theory and Methodology
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Private Law | Profile
Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Theory and Methodology | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- N.L. Holvast & P. Mascini (2020). Is the Judge or the Clerk Making the Decision? Measuring the Influence of Judicial Assistants via an Experimental Survey among Dutch District Court Judges. International Journal For Court Administration, 11 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.36745/ijca.358
- N.L. Holvast & J.M.W. Lindeman (2020). An Inquiry into the Blurring Boundaries between Professionals and Paraprofessionals in Dutch Courts and the Public Prosecution Service. International Journal of Law in Context, 16 (4), 371-389. doi: 10.1017/S1744552320000270;
- N.L. Holvast, J.S. Nan & S.M.A. Lestrade (2020). Revision in the Netherlands. Erasmus Law Review, 2020 (4), 1-12. doi: 10.5553/ELR.000188
Assistant Professor, Criminology
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Hendrik Bruns, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Katharina Klement, Marijane Luisrto Jonsson and Bilel Rahali
“Can Nudges be Transparent and Yet Effective?” Journal of Economic Psychology 65 (2018), 41-59 - Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
“To Follow or Not To Follow The Herd? Transparency and Social Norm Nudges”, Kyklos 74(3) (2021), 362-277 - Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Keren Weinshall, “Ideological Bias in Constitutional Judgments: Experimental Analysis and Potential Solutions”, Working Paper 2020.
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Klick, Jonathan; Tabarrok, Alexander. Using terror alert levels to estimate the effect of police on crime. The Journal of Law and Economics, 2005, 48.1: 267-279;
- KLICK, Jonathan; STRATMANN, Thomas. The effect of abortion legalization on sexual behavior: evidence from sexually transmitted diseases. The Journal of Legal Studies, 2003, 32.2: 407-433;
- Helland, Eric; Klick, Jonathan. The effect of judicial expedience on attorney fees in class actions. The Journal of Legal Studies, 2007, 36.1: 171-187.
PhD candidate, Criminology | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
Geuze, Gwendolyn, Frank Weerman & Tamar Fischer (2021).
Community sanctions in youth justice: A meta-analysis examining their effectiveness in comparison to other youth crime responses. European Journal of Criminology.
Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Theory and Methodology
PhD candidate, Criminology | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Kox M and Staring R (2021)
“I call it a system.” Unauthorized migrants’ understandings of the long reach of Dutch internal migration controls. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 10(3): 87-100. - Liebling, A., Schmidt, B. E., Beyens, K., Boone, M., Johnsen, B., Kox, M., Rokkan, T. & Vanhouche, A. S. (2021).
Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison. International Criminology, 1(1): 123 - 134. - M.H. Kox, M. Boone & R.H.J.M. Staring (2020).
The pains of being unauthorized in the Netherlands. Punishment and Society, 2020 (January), 1-19. doi: 10.1177/1462474519887357
Professor, Private Law
- Verkrijging van een executoriale titel in incassozaken, WODC Report 2012 (Kramer et al).
- X.E. Kramer, European Procedures on Debt Collection: Nothing or Noting? Experiences and Future Prospects, in: B. Hess & E. Storskrubb (eds.), Oxford: Hart Publishing 2016, p. 97-121.
Professor, Department of Private Law | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Mascini P, Wijk E van (2009)
Responsive Regulation at the Dutch Food and Com-modity Authority: An Empirical Assessment of Assumptions Underlying the Theory. Regulation and Governance 3(1): 27-47. - Mascini P & Holvast NL (2020)
Explaining judicial assistants’ influence on adjudication with principal-agent theory and contextual factors. International Journal for Court Administration, 11(2), 1-18. doi: - Mascini P, Oorschot I van, Weenink D, Schippers G (2016)
Understanding Judges' Choices of Sentence Types as Interpretative work: An Explorative Study in a Dutch Police Court. Recht der Werkelijkheid, 37(1): 32-49.
Associate Professor, Criminology | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Roks, R. A. (2021).
“I Showed You What I Thought Was Appropriate”: Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnographic Research and the Performativity of Dutch Gang Life. Conflict and Society, 7(1), 175-191. - Roks, R., Bisschop, L., & Staring, R. (2021).
Getting a foot in the door. Spaces of cocaine trafficking in the Port of Rotterdam. Trends in Organized Crime, 24(2), 171-188. - Roks, R. A., Leukfeldt, E. R., & Densley, J. A. (2021).
The hybridization of street offending in the Netherlands. The British Journal of Criminology, 61(4), 926-945.
Professor, Criminology | Profile
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Weerman, Frank M. (2011).
Delinquent peers in context: A longitudinal network analysis of selection and influence effects. Criminology, 49/1: 253-286. - Weerman, Frank, Gerben Bruinsma, Wim Bernasco & Lieven Pauwels (2020).
Wie zijn jeugdige veelplegers? Een onderzoek naar aantallen en kenmerken op basis van politieregistraties en zelfrapportage. Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, 62/2: 201-228. - Geuze, Gwendolyn, Frank Weerman & Tamar Fischer (2021).
Community sanctions in youth justice: A meta-analysis examining their effectiveness in comparison to other youth crime responses. European Journal of Criminology.
Professor, Criminology | Profile
PhD Candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
Selected empirical legal studies publications/working papers:
- Zarra, A (2021)
Ask the Data. A Machine Learning Analysis of the Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence. In: Custers, B H M, Fosch-Villaronga, E (eds) (2021) Law and Artificial Intelligence. Springer - Zarra, A and Ceron, M (2021)
Covid-19: the place for women in pandemic response in the EU. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, US. 29 September - 1 October 2021
PhD candidate, Criminology
Associate Professor, Criminal Law and Criminology
Associate Professor, University Toulouse 1 Capitole
PhD Candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD Candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD candidate, Criminology
Lecturer, Department of Health Law
PhD candidate, Department of Private Law
PhD candidate, Department of International and European Union Law
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD candidate, Law and Business
Assistant professor, Criminology
PhD candidate, Law Society and Crime
Assistant professor, Department of Private Law
PhD Candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD candidate, Financial Law (Law & Business)
PhD candidate, Law & Business
PhD candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD candidate, Law and Markets
PhD candidate, Criminology
Academic researcher, Department of Tax Law
PhD Candidate, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
PhD candidate, Law & Business
Assistant professor, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law
PhD candidate, Law, Society and Crime
Postdoctoral researcher, Law and Markets
PhD candidate (EDLE)
Endowed professor, Department of Tax Law
Assistant professor, Department of Tax Law
PhD Candidate, Department of Private Law
Postdoctoral researcher, Law and Markets
Junior researcher, Criminology
PhD candidate (EDLE)
Professor, Law and Markets
PhD candidate, Law & Business
PhD candidate, Department of International and European Union Law
Academic researcher, Department of Private Law
Associate professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics
Professor, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics