Monday 8 September 2025 | 20.00 – 21.30 hrs | LUX, Nijmegen | Radboud Reflects, Bookstore Roelants and the Faculty of Law
What is the state of the Dutch constitutional state? The constitutional state is not just for lawyers. It concerns everyone. Because the constitutional state must offer protection against arbitrariness, legal inequality, and criminal subversion. But that same rule of law failed in the 'Toeslagenaffaire' and is threatened by populist politics. Come and listen to Ybo Buruma, doyen of Dutch criminal law, who will be talking to philosopher Laura Davies and historian Luc Bulten about the question: what is the state of the Dutch rule of law?