Tom Zwart
International and European Law
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof. Dr. Tom Zwart studied law at Leiden University. From 1993 to 1997 he was head of the EJA department at the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations. Since 1997 he has been a professor at Utrecht University at the Faculty of Law, specializing in human rights. From 2005 to 2008 he was dean of the Utrecht School of Law. In 2006 he developed a legal program with international exchanges to introduce students to various legal systems. He has been elected several times as an honorary member of student associations from Leiden and Utrecht because of his qualities as a teacher and researcher.
Research Interest
law theory
Publications
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La Poursuite du Père Fouettard Meroni: Pourquoi les Agences Pourraient des Lors Jouer un Rôle Plus and Vue au Sein de l'Union Européenne, in: Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère and Jean-Bernard Auby (eds.), L'Exécution du Droit de L'Union, Entre Mécanismes Communautaires et Droits Nationaux, Brussels, 2009 (forthcoming)
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Deference Owed under the Separation of Powers, in: John Morison, Kieran McEvoy, Gordon Anthony (Ed.), Judges, Transition and Human Rights, Oxford, 2007, pp. 73-90
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The Admissibility of Human Rights Petitions, the Case Law of the European Commission of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee (1994)
