Clara van Dam
Assistant professor
- Name
- Mr.dr. J.C.A. van Dam
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1389
- j.c.a.van.dam@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6642-7600
Clara van Dam is an Assistant Professor at the department of Constitutional and Administrative law at Leiden University.
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Clara van Dam is Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden Law School. Her research concentrates on European and national administrative law with a particular focus on informal administrative governance.
Clara studied Law and Political Sciences at Leiden University. She obtained the master degree in Dutch Constitutional and Administrative Law from Leiden University (2011; with distinction) and the master degree in European Political and Administrative Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (2012; mention très bien). In the first semester of 2010/2011 Clara studied at l’Institut d'études politiques in Paris.
In September 2013 Clara was awarded the Meijers PhD-position to conduct doctoral research at the Department of Administrative and Constitutional Law of Leiden University. Clara obtained her doctorate in February 2020. Her dissertation unravels the role of guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order and analyses the implications in light of legal principles that govern the implementation EU law. The analysis finds that the legitimacy of guidance documents is at risk, and invites to rethink ‘governance through guidance’.
During her doctoral research, in 2015-2016, Clara worked as a Blue Book trainee at the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission. During this traineeship she worked on a ‘guidance for guidance’, which outlines general rules and principles to be taken into account by Commission officials when drafting, issuing and using guidance documents.
As a PhD student Clara attended the Academy of European Law Summer School at the European University Institute (Florence, 2014) as well as the Summer School in Methods and Techniques; Process Tracing Methodology; European Consortium of Political Research (Ljubljana, 2014).
From September 2017 until July 2018 Clara was, as academic coordinator, involved in the development and organization of the first edition of Summer Course ‘Europeanisation of administrative law in the EU Member States’ which took place in The Hague in July 2017.
Clara is a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal for European Law (NtEr). Since November 2014 Clara has been a board member of the Dutch Association for European Law (NVER). Clara has been involved in the organisation of the Young FIDE Seminar as well as of the FIDE Congress that will take place from 12-15 May 2020 in The Hague. Clara also was a board member of the Dutch Association for Young European Lawyers (STER).
Teaching
Clara has coordinated and taught in several bachelor and master courses on Dutch administrative law and European administrative law, as well as on legal methodology. She is currently coordinating and teaching in the following courses:
- Administrative Law (Bachelor II 5 ECTS)
- Privatissimum and Practicum: Europeanisation of Administrative Law (Master 10 ECTS)
- Supervision of Bachelor Theses
- Supervision of Master Theses
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Staats- en Bestuursrecht
- Behre F., Dam J.C.A. van, Schippers M., Sluis M. van der, Haket S., Mândrescu D. & Quintel T. (2021), Reflections on the Young FIDE Seminar 2021: The Young FIDE 2021 Board and the Young Rapporteurs, EU Law Live. Weekend Edition 64(26 June 2021): 2-6.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2021), De voorstellen voor een Europese Awb als inspiratiebron voor een beginsel-gestuurde doorwerking voor Europese guidance [NTB 2021/143], Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Bestuursrecht 2021(5): 338-342.
- Cuyvers A. & Dam J.C.A. van (2021), Where soft law meets CILFIT: is a court ever obligated to refer questions on soft law?. In: Verboeket J.W., Brink J.E. van den, Drahmann A., Jacobs M.J. & Ortlep R. (Eds.) Bestuursrecht in het echt. Vriendenbundel voor prof. mr. drs. Willemien den Ouden. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 301-321.
- Dam J.C.A. van (11 February 2020), Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order (PhD thesis. Institute of Public Law, Leiden Law School, Leiden University) Meijers-reeks no. MI-337. Supervisor(s): Ouden, W. den; Brink, J.E. van den.
- Dam J.C.A. van (13 December 2019), Guidance documents of the European Commission in the national legal order (Lecture). VI RIDE Conference 2019 – The Modernization of European Administrative Law: Madrid.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2019), Guidance documenten van de Europese Commissie en de Algemene wet bestuursrecht. In: Barkhuysen T., Marseille B., Ouden W. den, Peters H. & Schlössels R. (Ed.) 25 jaar Awb. In eenheid en verscheidenheid. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 531-546.
- Dam J.C.A. van (14 March 2018), Habitat guidance documents in the Dutch legal order (Lecture). Maastricht: SoLaR Young Researchers Platform.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2017), Guidance documents of the European Commission: a typology to trace the effects in the national legal order, Review of European Administrative Law 2: 75-91.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2017), "Guidance documents of the European Commission and the implementation of EU law". Lecture during the Summer Course on the Europeanisation of administrative law in the Member States, 28 June 2017, The Hague (Lecture).
- Dam J.C.A. van (2017), Het Hof van Justitie spreekt zich uit over de bindende werking van een aanbeveling van de Europese Commissie, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht 2017(4): 84-90.
- Dam J.C.A. van (9 December 2016), "Guidance documenten en de implementatie van het EU recht" (Lecture). Maastricht: Maastricht University.
- Brink van den A., Senden L.A.J., Widdershoven R.J.G.M, van den Brink, J.E. & van Dam J.C.A. (2016), National Report: The Netherlands. In: Czuczai J, Darak P., Lancos P., Szabo M., Varga, A.Z. (Eds.) Division of Competences and Regulatory Powers between the EU and the Member Sates - FIDE Conference proceedings 2016. Budapest: Wolter Kluwer. 625-676.
- Dam J.C.A. van (7 March 2016), Over guidance documenten en promoveren (Lecture). Mordenate College, Leiden.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2016), Commission Guidance as Informal Implementation Tool: Fit for the Future?. In: Steunenberg B., Voermans W.J.M., Van den Bogaert S.C.G. (Ed.) Fit for the Future? Reflections from Leiden on the Functioning of the EU. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing. 53-68.
- Dam J.C.A. van & Huurnink P.P. (2016), Verslag van de 10e NVER pleitwedstrijd Europees Recht, SEW: Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht 1: 19-20.
- Brink J.E. van den & Dam J.C.A. van, annotation: Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie 3 September 2014, no. C-410/13, AB 2015 (AB 2015/116 Ten onrechte weigering van een Europese subsidie: verplichting tot rechtsherstel op grond van EU-recht? Begrip onregelmatigheid en betekenis Europese soft law voor de nationale rechter).
- Dam J.C.A. van (2015), EU Administrative Soft Law and the Separation of Powers. In: Napel H.M.T.D. ten, Voermans W.J.M. (Ed.) The Powers That Be. Rethinking the Separation of Powers. A Leiden Response to Möllers. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 191-213.
- Dam J.C.A. van (4 November 2014), Europese soft law en de Nederlandse rechter (Lecture). Den Haag: Rechtbank Den Haag.
- Brink J.E. van den & Dam J.C.A. van, annotation: College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven 13 March 2013, no. AWB 12/46, AB 2014.
- Brink J.E. van den & Dam J.C.A. van, annotation: College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven 16 September 2013, no. AWB 12/34, AB 2014.
- Brink J.E. van den & Dam J.C.A. van (2014), Nederlandse bestuursrechters en unierechtelijke 'beleidsregels', JB-plus : 3-27.
- Dam J.C.A. van (2013), De doorwerking van Europese administratieve soft law: in strijd met Nederlandse legaliteit?, NALL: Netherlands administrative law library 2013(januari-maart).
- Dam J.C.A. van & Brink J.E. van den, annotation: General Court of the European Union 15 April 2011, no. T-297/05, SEW 2012,3; 121-125.
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