Adriaan Bedner is Professor of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society. He is also Head of Department of the Van Vollenhoven Institute and honorary fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).

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Adriaan Bedner is professor of Law and Society in Indonesia, Head of Department of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, and honorary fellow of the KITLV.

Adriaan’s research has a focus on access to justice, legal reasoning, family law and land law – in particular in Indonesia. This has led to publications on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from administrative courts and environmental litigation to human rights promotion in marriage law regimes and Indonesian legal education. He has supervised numerous PhD students and taught many courses at Leiden Law School and Leiden University College, including 'Law and Governance in Asia', 'Political and Economic Foundations of Law' and 'Making Human Rights Work'.

Adriaan has been involved in many research and legal education projects in Indonesia, sponsored among others by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Dutch Research Council, the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs and NUFFIC. He is Chair of the Board of the International Institute of Asian Studies, editor of Routledge’s Book Series Law, Development and Globalization, and a member of the Working Group on Legal Co-operation Indonesia-Netherlands.

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