Michiel Bot is Associate Professor of Law and Humanities and Program Director of the major Law in an International Context at University College Tilburg. Before joining Tilburg University, he obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University in 2013, held a postdoctoral fellowship in Politics and Humanities at Bard College (New York) from 2013 to 2015, and worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Society at Al Quds Bard (Palestine).
Michiel Bot's recent research includes publications on the right to boycott, freedom of expression and demonstration, the politics of undocumented migrants, municipal ID cards, and race, colonialism, law, and the nation-state.
Michiel has been teaching and supervising students in the fields of fundamental rights, jurisprudence, and law, politics, and the humanities.