Bart van Klink is Professor of Legal Methodology. He is responsible for the skills training in the legal curriculum, consisting of the following courses: Academic Legal Skills, Moot Court and Methods of Legal Research (amongst others). Between 1995 en 2009 he was lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence and Legal History, Tilburg University. In 1998 he graduated cum laude on a thesis about legal communication and symbolism. In 2009 he was appointed at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he gave his inaugural lecture on legal forms and legal change in 2010. Moreover, Van Klink is member of the board of the Dutch association for the Sociology of Law (VSR) and editor-in-chief of the international journal Law & Method. Currently, he is director of the research programme 'Boundaries of Law'.

Expertise 

Legal theory, political theory, sociology of law, legal methods, legal skills, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, hermeneutics, rhetorics, legal reasoning, law and language, rule of law, authority, law and politics, law and resistance, populism, war on terror, legal change. 

Legal Skills (Juridische vaardigheden) 
Moot Court (Pleitoefening) 
Introduction to Jurisprudence (Inleiding tot de rechtswetenschap) 
Methods of Legal Research (Methoden van rechtswetenschappelijk onderzoek)  
Legal research lab (PhD course on legal research skills) 
Bachelor thesis 

Van Klink participates in the research programme Boundaries of Law, in particular in the research group Time & Law. He is interested in methodological issues concerning law and legal research as well as in legal change and development. Recently, he has edited volumes on symbolic legislation and biolaw, the fact-norm distinction and academic learning. Moreover, Van Klink publishes on topics such as the role of authority in law, radical temporality, law and resistance, law and language, populism and the rhetorical justification of exceptional measures in situations of war and in the fight against terrorism.

• Boom Juridische uitgevers | Den Haag | Hoofdredacteur tijdschrift Law & Method | 2014-12-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

Contact details

T: +31 20 59 86327

E: b.van.klink@vu.nl 

MAILING ADDRESS: De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

VISITING ADDRESS: Initium Building, De Boelelaan 1077, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands