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L.H.J. Adams

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Tilburg Law School
Department for Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History

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Maurice Adams studied law and philosophy of law/legal theory at the Universities of Maastricht (the Netherlands), Leuven (Belgium) and Oxford (UK). He completed a doctorate in law at the University of Leuven under the supervision of M. Van Hoecke en H. Cousy. Since 1997 he was professor of law at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, mainly working in the field of jurisprudence and comparative law. In 2007 he was appointed full professor of general jurisprudence at Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

Since 2012 he is professor of democratice governance and rule of law (vfund chair), and also professor of general jurisprudence, both at Tilburg law School.

In his research he has a particular interest in issues of comparative legal research methodology, issues of regulation, and in the relation between (constitutional) law and politics (and political theory). Most recently he published, together with J. Griffiths and H. Weyers, a large scale comparative study about the regulation of euthanasia: Euthanasia and Law in Europe, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2008, 598 p. And also, together with J. Bomhoff and N. Huls as co-editors, a book on the argumentative practice of highest courts: The Legitimacy of highest courts? rulings, The Hague/Cambridge, TMC Asser Press/Cambridge University Press, 2009, 478 p. In June 2012 a volume appeared on Practice and Theory in Comparative Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (edited with J. Bomhoff). He also functioned in an advisory capacity for Belgian parliament on the regulation of euthanasia and on legislative evaluation, and also for the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. He has been editor in chief (2003-2008) of the journal Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie. Currently he is chairperson of the Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History at Tilburg Law School. He is an elected member of the Académie Internationale de droit comparé.

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Most recent publications

Adams, L.H.J., & Weyers, H. (2012). Supervision and control in euthanasia law: Going Dutch? Kings Law Journal, 23(2), 15-33. Further information
Adams, L.H.J., & Nys, G.M.S. (2012). Legislando sobre eutanasia: as leis de euthanasia belga e holandese do ponto de vista legal e etico [Legislating euthanasia: The Belgian and Dutch euthanasia acts from a legal and ethical point of view]. In D. Gozo & W. Ricardo Ligiera (Eds.), Bioetica e direitos fundamentais (pp. 309-324). Sao Paulo: Editora Saraiva. Further information
Adams, L.H.J., & Bomhoff, J.A. (2012). Comparing law: Practice and theory. In L.H.J. Adams & J. Bomhoff (Eds.), Practice and theory in comparative law (pp. 1-21). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Further information
Adams, L.H.J. (2012). Kleine sociologie van de rechterlijke motivering en het Beraad. In F. Fleerackers & R. van Ransbeeck (Eds.), Het beraad en de rechter (pp. 25-29). Brussel: Larcier. Further information
Adams, L.H.J. (2012). Waarom het EHRM noodzakelijk dynamisch is, en democratisch bovendien. In J. Gerards & A. Terlouw (Eds.), Amici Curiae (pp. 11-20). Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers. Further information

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Education

Doctoral dissertation: Precedent: a jurisprudential and comparative study

University of Leuven, April 1997

Supervisors: Prof.Dr Mark Van Hoecke and Prof.Dr. Herman Cousy

Professor of General Jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School

Part time professor of comparative law at Antwerp University

Publications

Most recent publications

Adams, L.H.J., & Weyers, H. (2012). Supervision and control in euthanasia law: Going Dutch? Kings Law Journal, 23(2), 15-33. Further information
Adams, L.H.J., & Nys, G.M.S. (2012). Legislando sobre eutanasia: as leis de euthanasia belga e holandese do ponto de vista legal e etico [Legislating euthanasia: The Belgian and Dutch euthanasia acts from a legal and ethical point of view]. In D. Gozo & W. Ricardo Ligiera (Eds.), Bioetica e direitos fundamentais (pp. 309-324). Sao Paulo: Editora Saraiva. Further information
Adams, L.H.J., & Bomhoff, J.A. (2012). Comparing law: Practice and theory. In L.H.J. Adams & J. Bomhoff (Eds.), Practice and theory in comparative law (pp. 1-21). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Further information
Adams, L.H.J. (2012). Kleine sociologie van de rechterlijke motivering en het Beraad. In F. Fleerackers & R. van Ransbeeck (Eds.), Het beraad en de rechter (pp. 25-29). Brussel: Larcier. Further information
Adams, L.H.J. (2012). Waarom het EHRM noodzakelijk dynamisch is, en democratisch bovendien. In J. Gerards & A. Terlouw (Eds.), Amici Curiae (pp. 11-20). Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers. Further information