Dr. C. (Kees) Waaldijk LL.M.

Position:
  • Director of PhD Studies at the Graduate School of the Leiden Law School
  • Senior lecturer
Expertise:
  • Sexual orientation law
  • Law & homosexuality


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 5206
E-Mail: c.waaldijk@law.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Stafdienst Graduate School
Office Address: Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B424
Personal Homepage: www.emmeijers.nl/​waaldijk

As Director of PhD Studies Kees Waaldijk is responsible for the PhD programmes for PhD fellows and other appointed PhD candidates at the Leiden Law School. He also acts as their coach and adviser, and organizes their evaluations. He advises both the Research Board and the Faculty Board on matters relating to the PhD candidates and their training, and monitors the progress of PhD research.  

Kees Waaldijk is a senior lecturer in the ‘Securing the rule of law in a world of multilevel jurisdiction’ research programme. Within this framework he carries out comparative legal research in the field of sexual orientation law.

Publications

See the full list of publications, on sexual orientation law and on other topics, that Kees Waaldijk has written since 1981.

News and information about sexual orientation law

For information about research in the field of sexual orientation law, and for occasional news about developments in this field, see the research page of Kees Waaldijk.

Curriculum vitae

Kees Waaldijk (1958) is a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of the Leiden Law School at Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. Since 2000 he is that Institute's Director of PhD Studies, as well as a research fellow specialising in sexual orientation law.

In 1982 he obtained his Masters Degree in Law at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From 1982 until 1995 he taught Public Law and Legal Skills at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, where in 1994 he obtained his Doctoral Degree, with the thesis Motiveringsplichten van de wetgever (The Legislature's Duties to Give Reasons, with summaries in English and French).

Since 1996 he works for the Universiteit Leiden (until 2000 as a lecturer in jurisprudence, and from 1999 to 2001 as the coordinator of the evening programme in law at the university's campus in The Hague). From 1987 until 1998 he was also part-time working for the Univerisity of Utrecht, The Netherlands, first as researcher and lecturer in the Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies, later as researcher at the University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. He has been teaching courses on Sexual Orientation Law, as well as post-graduate courses in Legislative Drafting and in Family Law, at various universities. In 1989 he spent a year in the United Kingdom, first as a senior visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh (Leverhulme grant), and then teaching British Constitutional Law at the University of Lancaster (ERASMUS staff exchange). From February to June 2000 he was visiting professor at Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, teaching the course 'Human Rights Law in Europe - as applied to family, immigration and sexual orientation' (Leiden-Hastings exchange programme).

He has been acting as a formal and informal adviser on law & homosexuality to numerous individuals, organisations, lawyers, politicians and journalists, and has had an active role in several test cases and legislative lobbies. He was a delegate to the International Lesbian and Gay Association (1987/93), a member of the Dutch Government's Commission of legal experts advising on the opening up of civil marriage to same-sex couples (1996/97), and a member of the Dutch Council for Family Affairs (1994/99). From 1999 to 2007 he was one of the editors of the annual collection of opinions of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission. He has been advising on evaluation studies commissioned by the Dutch government about the workings of the General Equal Treatment Act (1999), of the Law on Registered Partnership (1999 and 2006) and of the Law on the Opening Up of Marriage (2006). He is a founding member of the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association. From 2002 to 2004 he coordinated the European Group of Experts on Combating Sexual Orientation Discrimination, which reported to the Commission of the European Communities, about the implementation of the Employment Equality Directive. 

On his research page he provides news about developments and research in the field of sexual orientation law. See also his list of publications.

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