Team

Ashley Terlouw
Chairwoman

Since September 2020, Ashley Terlouw is the new chairwoman of the Meijers Committee. She is professor of Sociology of Law at the Radboud University (Nijmegen),  chairs  the departments of sociology of law and migration law and is also responsible for the Centre for Migration Law. Furthermore, Ashley is the chair of the editorial board of the Journal A&MR as well as the chairwoman of the Research Centre for State and Law (SteR).

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Barbara Safradin
Executive Secretary
Since May 2022 Barbara is the Executive Secretary of the Meijers Committee and is responsible for both the practical and substantive work of the Committee. Barbara has previously worked for NGO Academie van de Stad as a project manager and as a researcher and lecturer in European Law (Utrecht University). She studied European Law and obtained the 2-year Legal Research master programme (cum laude) at Utrecht University. She is currently conducting research in European asylum law.
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Jasper van Berckel Smit
Project Officer

Jasper joined the Meijers Committee in June 2022 as project officer for the project 'Safeguarding the Rule of Law in the European Union'. In addition to his work at the Committee, Jasper is PhD researcher in international refugee and migration law at the Amsterdam Law School (University of Amsterdam). He previously worked as junior lecturer at the same faculty, after completing his LLM International and European Law there.

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Pim Geelhoed
Interim Chairman of subgroup Agencies

Pim Geelhoed is Associate Professor in criminal law and criminal procedure at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands and deputy judge at the Court of Appeal of Arnhem-Leeuwarden.

Melanie Fink
Chairwoman of subgroup (on leave)

Melanie Fink is Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute of Leiden University.

Anne-Marie Smit

Anne-Marie Smit is a judge at the Court of Appeals in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Furthermore, she is the contact point of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters.

Florin Coman Kund

Florin Coman-Kund is Assistant Professor in European Union Law at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Merijn Chamon

Merijn Chamon is Professor of EU law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Madalina Busuioc

Madalina Busuioc is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Maarten Hillebrandt
Interim Chairman of subgroup Rule of Law

Maarten Hillebrandt is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (Utrecht School of Governance)

John Morijn
Chairman of subgroup (on leave)

John Morijn is professor of law and politics in international relations and assistant professor of European human rights law at the University of Groningen.

Sanne Buismann

Sanne Buisman is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Kees Groenendijk

Kees Groenendijk is emeritus professor sociology of law at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where he works for the Centre for Migration Law. He was Chairman of the Meijers Committee from 1997 to 2014.

Theo de Roos

Theo de Roos is emeritus professor of at the Tilburg University and is honorary deputy justice at the Court of Appeals, in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Theo de Roos was chairman of the Meijers Committee from 2014 until September 2020.

Anne-Marie Smit

Anne-Marie Smit is a judge at the Court of Appeals in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Furthermore, she is the contact point of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters.

Nico Tuijn

Nico Tuijn is Deputy Chief Justice at the Court of Appeal s'-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. He has been a member of the Meijers Committee since 2017.

Tarlach McGonagle

Tarlach is Associate professor at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, and Professor of Media Law & Information Society at the Faculty of Law, Leiden University