Mieke Vos-van der Linden

Lecturer-researcher
Mieke Vos-van der Linden has been working as a lecturer-researcher in the Lectorate Social Cohesion, Democracy and the Rule of Law research group since September 1, 2025. She specializes in international and European law and is affiliated to the Institute for Law, where she is, among other things, course coordinator of the Minor in EU Law and Human Rights.

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Mieke obtained her PhD at the intersection of international law and legal history. Her research focused on the legality of the colonization and partition of Africa. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg). She also worked in the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focusing on matters including border disputes. And she worked as a legal officer at the court in Breda, and as an intern at the Dutch Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Within the lectorate, Mieke will conduct research into the fundamental concept of the democratic constitutional state and the mechanisms that strengthen or challenge it. She will approach this from a historical perspective, with explicit connections to education. In the coming period, she will investigate new hegemonic forces. 

Expertise

  • International and European law
  • Legal history 
  • Democracy / rule of law

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Mieke Vos-van der Linden

  • Lecturer-researcher
  • Research group: Social Cohesion and the Democratic Constitutional State