Team members

Jasper Krommendijk (Jean Monnet Chair & coordinator)

Dr. Jasper Krommendijk (1985) is an Associate Professor of international and European Law and Director of the Research Centre for State and Law (SteR). He also the co-director of the SteR research programme ‘Interaction between international and national law’. Dr. Krommendijk's research is focused on the impact of international and European law at the domestic level and the effectiveness of international courts and legal procedures in practice. He also studies national public law in the light of EU law. His motivation is truly understanding and offering explanations on the law with a specific interest in fundamental rights, the rule of law and effective judicial protection. Most of his research has been empirical and interdisciplinary in nature, grounded in both law as well as International Relations. Dr. Krommendijk worked on a project (2017-21) called ‘It takes two to tango. The preliminary reference dance between the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts’ funded with a prestigious VENI-grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Before this project, Krommendijk completed his PhD on the effectiveness of international courts and committees and their judgments/recommendations, including the UN human rights committees as well as some Council of Europe bodies. This empirical research was interdisciplinary in nature since it was grounded in both law as well as International Relations and consisted of qualitative case studies and involved social science research methods. Prior to starting his PhD research, he worked at the Ministry of Justice in the field of EU criminal law, rule of law and mutual trust.

Krommendijk’s research has been published in renowned international peer reviewed journals such as the CMLRev, EUConst, ELR, MJ. His work is widely acknowledged by a wide and diverse audience, as is also evidenced by references to his work in the opinions of AGs of the CJEU and leading EU law text books (e.g. C-620/19; C-171/18). Gráinne de Búrca (New York University Law School, USA) praised his 2021 monograph: ‘This book is a very welcome addition to the small but growing literature providing qualitative empirical insight […].  Thoughtfully and carefully written, and based on case-law analysis and primary interviews with judges from three national jurisdictions, the book offers a rich and nuanced picture.’

A selection of relevant publications by Jasper Krommendijk

Ronald Tinnevelt

Ronald Tinnevelt is full professor in Philosophy of Law at Radboud University, chair of the department of Philosophy of Law. He has a background in philosophy and public administration and organizational science, received his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven and was a visiting researcher at Harvard University and Stanford University.

His research interests include: rule of law, militant constitutionalism, political theory of the European Union and global justice. He recently edited a volume in Dutch on resilient rule of law, is currently teaching a bachelor course on the same topic for third-year law students, and is editing volume on European Ways of Life (Edgar Elgar 2023).

Prof. Tinnevelt is co-director of the SteR research programme ‘Foundational principles and fundamental rights’.

Henri de Waele

Henri De Waele is full professor (chair) of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), currently also serves as part-time professor of EU External Relations Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and is associated as a senior fellow with the Centre for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn (Germany). He studied Dutch, International and European Law in Nijmegen and Leuven (Belgium), holds an LLM and a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen, as well as the Diploma in European Union Law from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

Prof. De Waele’s primary research interest lies within the domain of EU institutional law, and concerns in particular the inter-institutional dynamics, the Union’s external relations and interaction with other international organisations, judicial appointments and administration of justice, the effect of European norms in the national legal order, and EU citizenship. He has hereby also devoted ample attention to fundamental rights and rule of law aspects, as inter alia evident from various book chapters he authored, as well as co-edited volumes on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in 2014 and 2019.

Prof. De Waele is co-Chair of the multidisciplinary research group EUROPAL, ensuring the successful organisation of several of the proposed activities.

A selection of relevant publications by Henri de Waele

Petra Bárd

Petra Bárd is profesor of Sustainable Rule of Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). She is also a Researcher at the Central European University’s (CEU) Legal Studies Department; Research Affiliate at the CEU Democracy Institute; Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology; and Visiting Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Between 2006 and 2016 she was Researcher at the National Institute of Criminology, Hungary, where she was Head of the Criminal Law Division.

In her research and scholarly publications – including several monographs – she targets issues at the intersection of the rule of law, fundamental rights, their European enforcement mechanism, and EU criminal cooperation. She participates in several EU-funded projects and is regular author of studies commissioned by EU institutions on various subjects, such as the rule of law, minorities, disinformation and propaganda, media pluralism, strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP), hate crimes, and victims' rights.

A selection of relevant publications by Petra Bárd

Publications

A selection of relevant publications by Jasper Krommendijk:

• Naked of golden gun? Het Unierechtelijke handhavingsarsenaal om rechtsstatelijke achteruitgang aan te pakken [Naked or golden gun? The EU enforcement arsenal to tackle rule of law backsliding], Ars Aequi, 71(6) (2022), 471-479. (with N. Zamani)
• Rechtersorganisaties kloppen aan in Luxemburg, maar geeft het Hof van Justitie thuis? [Judges' organisations knock on Luxembourg's door, but is the ECJ giving in?], Nederland Rechtsstaat, 15 September 2022 (with T. Hendrikx)
• Ook voor ons: het groeiend belang van het EU-recht voor de weerbaarheid van de Nederlandse rechtsstaat [Also for us: the growing importance of EU law for the resilience of the Dutch rule of law], in: J.N. Schlössels, J.J.J. Sillen & R.B.J. Tinnevelt (eds.) De weerbare rechtsstaat (Deventer: Kluwer, 2022), 79-93.
• Book Review Saving the international justice regime. Beyond backlash against international courts, The Review of International Organizations (2022)
• Do Luxembourg and Strasbourg trust each other? The CJEU’s engagement with the jurisprudence of the ECtHR in AFSJ cases concerning mutual trust since 2017, Journal Européen des Droits de l'Homme = European Journal of Human Rights 4/5 (2021), 319-344 (with G. de Vries).
• Rechters onder druk: een 'illegale' prejudiciële verwijzing over taalkundige bijstand in strafzaken [Judges under pressure: an 'illegal' preliminary reference on language assistance in criminal cases], IS (HvJ EU, C-564/19) | EHRC Updates (ehrc-updates.nl) (with Toor, D.A.G. van)
• Bosphorus bijt in Bivolaru: over EHRM-toetsing tenuitvoerlegging EU-arrestatiebevelen [Bosphorus bites Bivolaru: on ECHR review of enforcement of EU arrest warrants], (EHRM, nr. 40324/16) | EHRC Updates (2021).
• The independence of the judiciary: Article 19 TEU vs. Article 47 of the Charter. In: R. Grimbergen and A. Pahladsingh (Wolf, 2019).
• Is there light on the horizon? The distinction between ‘Rewe-effectiveness’ and the principle of effective judicial protection in Article 47 of the Charter after Orizzonte, Common Market Law Review 53(5) (2016), 1395-1418.

A selection of relevant publications by Henri de Waele

• ‘Het toepassingsbereik van het Handvest: Åkerberg Fransson in Nederland’ [The scope of application of the Charter: Åkerberg Fransson in the Netherlands], in: H. de Waele, J. Krommendijk en K. Zwaan (red.), Tien jaar EU-Grondrechtenhandvest in Nederland. Een impact assessment. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer 2019, p. 45-6
• ‘De trias politica in de gelaagde EU-rechtsorde’ [The trias politica in the layered EU legal order], Ars Aequi 2020, p. 891-899
• ‘Justice, Fundamental Rights and the Juncker Commission. Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint?’, in: Robert Stüwe & Thomas Panayotopoulos (eds.), The Juncker Commission. Politicizing EU Policies (Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, 79), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2020, p. 157-168
• ‘Nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de Europese rechtsstaatcrisis. Hongarije verliest een slag, maar wie wint de oorlog?’ [New developments in the European rule of law crisis. Hungary loses a battle, but who wins the war?], Ars Aequi 2021, p. 1118-1122
• ‘… Wherefore by Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them. The Covert Failings of the European Court of Justice’, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2021, pp. 54-72
• ‘Fiat justitia, pereat mundus? Het oordeel van het Europees Hof van Justitie over het rechtsstatelijk conditionaliteitsmechanisme en de weg voorwaarts’ [The European Court of Justice's judgment on the rule of law conditionality mechanism and the way forward], blog Nederland Rechtsstaat, 22 februari 2022.
• ‘Free as a bird? Het Europees Hof van Justitie onderstreept de autonome positie en toetsingsvrijheid van de nationale rechter’ [The European Court of Justice underlines the autonomous position and freedom of review of national courts], Ars Aequi 2022, p. 395-399.
• ‘Nexit. Uittreding uit de Europese Unie en de gevolgen voor de rechtsstaat in Nederland’ [Nexit. Exiting the European Union and the consequences for the rule of law in the Netherlands], in: R.J.N. Schlössels, J.J.J. Sillen & R.B.J. Tinnevelt (red.), Naar een weerbare rechtsstaat (Serie Staat en Recht, 55), Deventer: Wolters Kluwer 2022, p. 113-130.

A selection of relevant publications by Petra Bárd

• ‘In courts we trust, or should we? Judicial independence as the precondition for the effectiveness of EU law’, European Law Journal 27(1-3) (2022), p. 185-210.
• ‘War as a pretext to wave the rule of law goodbye? The case for an EU constitutional awakening’, European Law Journal 27 (1-3) (2022), pp. 39-49 (with Dimitry V. Kochenov)
• ‘Kirchberg Salami Lost in Bosphorus: The Multiplication of Judicial Independence Standards and the Future of the Rule of Law in Europe’, Journal of Common Market Studies (2022) (with Dimitry V. Kochenov)