Profile

Dr Mark Klaassen is Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute, Leiden University. He graduated from Warwick University with a Master of Arts in Politics in 2008 and progressed to an LLM in European law at Leiden University, where he graduated cum laude. In 2012, he started his doctoral research at Leiden Law School on the right to family reunification and obtained his PhD in 2015.

Klaassen is currently a lecturer and coordinator of various courses related to immigration law at Leiden Law School. In 2018, he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Council on Migration, an advisory body for the Dutch government and parliament on immigration law and policy. Klaassen is a board member of the Dutch Association on Migration Research and of the Netherlands Migration Law Foundation (Stichting Migratierecht Nederland).

Research

His research focuses on immigration law, particularly family reunification and the intersection of children’s rights and immigration law.

Education

Klaassen teaches the following courses at Leiden Law School:

• Vreemdelingenrecht
• Kind en Migratie
• Immigratierecht
• Migration and Children’s Rights
• European Migration Law
• European Asylum Law

Besides these courses, Klaassen supervises master theses for different departments of Leiden Law School.

Publications