As assistant professor in Diversity, Ethics, and Law, Jeroen Rijnders' main task is developing this learning track (Dutch: 'leerlijn') throughout the BA Law and BA Notary Law programmes. The aim of the learning track is for students to develop a critical attitude towards the law, complementary to more traditional legal positivist education. Central to this are ethical reflection (how to critically assess the law and form your own point of view) and awareness of diversity (the interests and views of diverse social groups and your own positionality).

Jeroen is also the founder of the Class-Conscious Academics Network (CCAN), the first Dutch community by and for first-generation and working-class students and academics. The CCAN offers a platform for students and academics to meet each other, share experiences, support, network, and share knowledge through salons with topical talks.

Invitation to students: Being a queer academic from a working-class/first-gen background myself, I have personal experience with having to figure out how to find your own way in academia. If you would like to talk about how your backgrounds or identities influence your experience of the university, you are warmly invited to contact me for a casual chat over a cup of coffee/tea.

Jeroen Rijnders studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, the University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, and the University of Oslo. He obtained his doctorate with an interdisciplinary thesis on moral psychology and meta-ethics, titled Developing Moral Character. The thesis addresses how psychological processes like implicit racial biases and unconscious sexist stereotypes influence people’s moral behaviour, and what this means for how we should think about ‘agency’; our sense of control and ownership of our behaviours, and with that our responsibility for them.

His current research interests focus on inequality and discrimination (especially in relation to socio-economic class and its intersections with ethnicity) and sexual ethics (for example, sexual development, discrimination in dating, and alternative sexual lifestyles).

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