2o25–2026
Jurisprudence and Public International Law (lecture and working groups, MA)
2024–2025
Introduction to legal methodology (working groups, BA 1)
Jurisprudence and Public International Law (lecture and working groups, MA)
A History of the United Nations (lecture on Russia and the UN Security Council, MA)
2023–2024
Democratic self-defence and democratic backsliding (elective, lecture on ‘Europe and the rule of law’ for BA 2/3 students)
Rule of law and democracy: Contemporary questions (elective, lecture on ‘Europe and the rule of law’ for BA 2/3 students)
Required reading:
Vestert Borger, ‘Constitutional identity, the rule of law, and the power of the purse: The ECJ approves the conditionality mechanism to protect the Union budget: Hungary and Poland v. Parliament and Council‘, Common Market Law Review 59, no. 6 (2022): 1771-1802
Tom Theuns, ‘Is the European Union a militant democracy? Democratic backsliding and EU disintegration’, Global Constitutionalism 13, no. 1 (2024): 104-125.
Recommended reading:
Franca M. Feisel, ‘Thinking EU Militant Democracy beyond the Challenge of Backsliding Member States’, European Constitutional Law Review 18, no. 3 (2022): 385-411.
Signe Rehling Larsen, ‘The European Union as a ‘Militant Democracy’?’ in European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia, ed. Jan Komárek (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), p. 75-91.
Kim Lane Scheppele, Dimitry V. Kochenov and Barbora Grabowska-Moroz, ‘EU Values Are Law, after All: Enforcing EU Values through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union’, Yearbook of European Law 39 (2020): 3-121.
Introduction to legal methodology (working groups, BA 1)
Supervision of bachelor’s theses on Immanuel Kant and international law (BA 3)
Jurisprudence and Public International Law (working groups, MA)
2022–2023
Law and Literature (elective, lecture on ‘Star Wars and the law’, BA 3)
Required reading:
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), c. 140 minutes
Joris van de Riet, ‘Wat Star Wars ons kan leren over het recht’, NOVUM 38, no. 7 (2017): 6-8
Conor Casey and David Kenny, ‘How Liberty Dies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Democratic Decay, and Weak Executives’, Law & Literature 35, no. 2 (2023): 221-246
Recommended reading:
‘How Liberty Dies: The Politics of Star Wars’, YouTube, 25 July 2021
Cass R. Sunstein, The World According to Star Wars (New York: Dey Street Books, 2016), p. 113-160
Supervision of bachelor’s theses on Immanuel Kant and international law (BA 3)
2021–2022
Introduction to legal methodology (working groups, BA 1)
Joris van de Riet 