Niels F. Van ManenCourt of Appeal, Amsterdam (retired)
Niels F. Van Manen
LLM, PHD
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Introduction
For about 35 years I have been involved in sociology of law (and legal aid), at the end as an assistent-professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam in the Department of General Jurisprudence. In 2009 I became a judge in the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam, Criminal Branche.
My academic research was focused on legal assistance, changes in law and society in the last 150 years, legal theory, legal pluralism and law in a multicultural society.
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April 1992 - January 2009
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- Assistant Professor (formerly)
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- Sociology if Law, General Jurisprucende, Criminal Law
April 1992 - January 2009
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Publications (36)
This article is an in memoriam of André Hoekema. The article includes an appendix with a bibliography of his works.
Thesis (doctoral) Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1989. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244). Please contact me: nfvanmanen@gmail.com
This essay does not concern the question of how courts ought to decide cases. That is a normative question, from the field of legel theory, jurisprudence or the philosophy of law. Like Paul Scholten in his General Method of Private Law, the concern in this essay is a more factual approach, a sociological analysis. This essay is the result of profes...
The paper deals with the question on the level of philosophy of law and sociology of law how judges arrive at their decisions. From the turn of the 20th century onwards, the debate in Europe has abandoned the idea of 'law as a closed system' towards 'law as an open system'. The consequence was, however, that judicial decisions could non linger be r...
The paper deals with the question on the level of philosophy of law and sociology of law how judges arrive at their decisions. From the turn of the 20th century onwards, the debate in Europe has abandoned the idea of ‘law as a closed system’ towards ‘law as an open system’. The consequence was, however, that judicial decisions could non linger be r...
According to Max Weber (1864-1929), being interested in stable, durable power, legality – formal-rational law – was the source of legitimate power in his days. Many sociologists of law appear to turn to Weber and his theory, since Weber’s ‘legitimacy through legality’ includes law, making law relevant for the rise of social order. I am interested i...
The subject of this paper: Legal Recognition of Distinct Communities can be devided into two fundamental issues: the issue connecting human rights, tollerance, freedom and multicultural indentity, at the one hand, and the more empirical or analytical description of the recognition in law of a distinct community. Although these issues have to be see...
Law, legal certainty and justice: everyone who is concerned with the study of law knows that these words refer to a domain fit for lifelong reflection. The reason to spend attention to a specific point of this body of thought is the fact that Paul Scholten (1875-1946) has been one of the most eloquent proponents of a change of the dogmatic concepti...
