Danny Jol has been employed as a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure and as a PhD candidate by the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University since 2024.

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Danny Jol has been employed as a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure and as a PhD candidate by the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University since 2024. He obtained his LL.M. from Leiden University, with dual specialisation, in criminal and civil law.

Teaching

From 2010 on, he has worked as a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University (2010-2012, 2016-2017) and the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University (2012-2016, 2017-…). He has also been involved as a lecturer in the History of European Public Law Course (with a focus on the history of constitutional law, criminal law and criminal procedure), taught at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law (Department of Legal History) of Leiden University (2013-2014). Since 2017 he has been appointed as a PhD candidate. As a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure, he teaches various courses in those fields.

Research

Danny Jol is writing a PhD thesis on criminal procedure in colonial Indonesia (the Netherlands Indies), under the (working) title ‘Tusschen Westersche leuzen en Oostersche mogelijkheden. De herziening van het Nederlands-Indische strafprocesrecht voor niet-Europeanen in 1941 en de Volksraad’ (‘Between Western Slogans and Eastern Possibilities. The Reform of the Netherlands Indies’ Criminal Procedure for Non-Europeans in 1941 and the Volksraad.’) His research focusses on two questions. (1) To what extent did the reform of the Netherlands Indies’ criminal procedure for non-Europeans regarding the preliminary investigation stage and the Public Prosecution Service in 1941 (which, among other things, led to the Herziene Inlandsch Reglement (HIR)) contribute to the improvement of the protection by law (rechtsbescherming) offered to non-Europeans, compared to the protection by law offered to Europeans by the Netherlands Indies’ criminal procedure for Europeans? (2) What effect did the parliamentary debate of the (proposed) legislation regarding the reform of criminal procedure for non-Europeans in the Volksraad (the central Netherlands Indies’ people’s assembly) had on this legislation, particularly seen from the perspective of protection by law (rechtsbescherming)?

He plans further research on criminal law and criminal procedure in Netherlands New Guinea (1949-1962) and on the process of pardoning of persons sentenced to death by the Court of St. George Delmina (or St. George d’Elmina). This Court was seated and adjudicated in the terrritories of the Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (or the (Dutch) Gold Coast, nowadays Ghana), in the period between 1848-1870.