Janneke Vink

External PhD candidate

animal politics
animal rights and animal welfare
democracy
philosophy of law
political legitimacy

Name: Mr. J. Vink
Telephone: +31 71 527 7548
E-mail: j.vink@law.leidenuniv.nl

Since August 2013 Janneke Vink works as a researcher at the department of Jurisprudence.

Supervisors

Paul Cliteur Professor of Jurisprudence
Arie-Jan Kwak Assistant Professor

Janneke Vink (1990) received her LL.M. in Criminal Law & Procedure and in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (cum laude) in 2013 at Leiden University.

She is now a PhD candidate at the department of Jurisprudence of Leiden Law School. Her dissertation is about animals in Liberal Democracies: Exploring the possibilities of animal protection in democracy and law. Her aim is to investigate if a constitutional democracy is realistically suitable for improving the current position of non-human animals.