dr.mr. Michiel Bot

Bio

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).

Expertise

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.

Teaching

Michiel has been teaching and supervising students in the fields of fundamental rights, jurisprudence, and law, politics, and the humanities.

Courses

• Law in Society
• Rhetoric in Theory and Practice I
• PASS UCTilburg 1
• Legal Fictions
• Imagining Justice: Intr. to Law & Human.
• Professional Practice: Internship
• Pass UCTilburg 2
• Pass UCTilburg 3
• Bachelorthesis Liberal Arts and Sciences

Recent publications

1. Comrade-thinkers - On Drucilla Cornell's critical theory

   Bot, M. (2023). Comrade-thinkers: On Drucilla Cornell's critical theory. Philosophy and Global Affairs, 3(2), 324-338.

2. Displacing the Young in the Neoliberal University

   Janssens, D., & Bot, M. (2023). Displacing the Young in the Neoliberal University. In Educational Utopias: Liber Amicorum Prof. Dr. Alkeline van Lenning (pp. 157-179). Open Press TiU.

3. Educational Utopias - Liber Amicorum for Prof.Dr. Alkeline van Lenning

   van der Laan, G., Leesen, T., Bot, M., Dreezens, E., Lakhani, V., Loos, M. J., Shekiladze, A., Spoormans, E. J. C., & Willems, T. (Eds.) (2023). Educational Utopias: Liber Amicorum for Prof.Dr. Alkeline van Lenning. Tilburg University Press.

4. De natiestaat als olifant in de kamer van de postkoloniale rechtsstaa…

   Bot, M. (2022). De natiestaat als olifant in de kamer van de postkoloniale rechtsstaat: Over nationaliteitsdiscriminatie, institutioneel racisme en het recht. NJCM-bulletin, 47(1), 78-94. Article NTM/NJCMbull. 2022/5. https://www.navigator.nl/document/idda5d7da006a34794896ffa032f2e7286?ctx=WKNL_CSL_102

5. Disrupting undocumentation - Municipal ID cards against passport feti…

   Bot, M. (2022). Disrupting undocumentation: Municipal ID cards against passport fetishism. Law & Literature, 1-21. Advance online publication.