Leiden University

Faculty Member, Legal Philosophy

About

Author and educator, finishing a PhD project in the Legal Philosophy group of the Leiden Law School. The dissertation is about the laws of armed conflict in the context of modern strategy and strategic change, and related philosophical problems.

I grew up in the Netherlands, attended Brandeis University and the London School of Economics, before returning to Holland for the PhD. I currently live in London.

Some CV highlights:


RESEARCH INTERESTS

International Law, Strategic Studies, Military History, Political and Legal Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy.

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2005-2011 
University of Leiden, Faculty of Law, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law.
Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Legal Philosophy Group. Six years experience teaching classical and political philosophy seminars to Dutch law undergraduates. Three publications. PhD dissertation supervised by Professor Andreas Kinneging.

2004-2005 London School of Economics, Department of Government, PhD Candidate (transferred).

2004-2005 International Institute for Strategic Studies
Part-time research and editorial assistance to Dr. Dana H. Allin, Editor of journal Survival.

2003-2004 London School of Economics, Master of Science in Philosophy and History of Science. Awarded Graduate Merit Scholarship. Master’s Thesis on Laws of Nature.

2002-2003 Brandeis University, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Center, Full-time Biochemistry Research in the Laboratory of Professors Dagmar Ringe and Gregory Petsko.

1998-2002 Brandeis University (Boston, MA), Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and Biochemistry. Awarded IVIS Scholarship. Fourteen courses in Philosophy (eight required) with a focus on analytic philosophy and ancient philosophy.  In Biochemistry, two years part-time research in Petsko-Ringe Laboratory, followed by one year full-time research after graduation.

1992-1998 Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem (Netherlands). Classical grammar school. Ten subjects in Dutch State Final Exam (seven required). Co-Founder of Haarlem Model United Nations in 1998.

PUBLICATIONS

‘Plato’s Political Ontology: On the Nature of Man and Regime’, Politics, Religion and Law: Philosophical Reflections on the Sources of Normative Order in Society, ed. B. Labuschagne, Brill (2009), pp. 31—69.

Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World, principal author for General Klaus Naumann, General John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal Lord Inge, Admiral Jacques Lanxade, General Henk van den Breemen, and with Douglas Murray (Noaber Foundation, 2008)

‘Machiavelli: Leraar in het Kwaad?’ (‘Machiavelli: Teacher of Evil?’), Van Kwaad tot Erger: Het Kwaad in de Filosofie, ed. Andreas Kinneging, Spectrum, Netherlands (2006), pp. 104—118.

MEMBERSHIPS

The Hague Academy of International Law, Public International Law session (2009 and 2011)

Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2003—Present)

Member of Atlantische Commissie, the Transatlantic Society of the Netherlands (2008—Present)

Member of the Henry Jackson Society and the European Convention on Liberal Democracy.


LANGUAGES

Fluent:                         Dutch, English, German and Polish.
Intermediate to High: French, Latin, Ancient Greek. 
Moderate:         Russian, Italian

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