Dr Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm is Director of Leiden Law School and appointed to the Faculty Board. She is also Associate Professor Health Law at the Institute of Private Law and a judge at the Regional Disciplinary Court for Healthcare in Amsterdam.

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Background

Mirjam Sombroek-Van Doorm studied French at Sorbonne University in Paris (1987). Subsequently, she studied law and French language and literature at Leiden University, graduating in 1993 (law) and 1996 (French language and literature).

In 2019, she was awarded a PhD on the subject: "Medical confidentiality and the duty of care of the doctor in the legal relationship between doctor, child and parents”. In 2021 she was appointed as Associate Professor in Health Law.

Mirjam Sombroek has continued to combine her academic work with management positions at Leiden Law School and Leiden University. She has always had a special interest in the training of PhD students and in establishing international collaborations for the Faculty. Since 2021, she has been a member of Leiden Law School’s Faculty Board where she is responsible for operational management.

She teaches on courses for the master’s degree programme Rechtsgeleerdheid (Law), supervises students writing a thesis in the field of health law and child law, is involved in postgraduate training courses in these fields, supervises PhD candidates and participates on PhD committees. She is also a member of the author’s team for the publication Tekst & Commentaar Gezondheidsrecht (Text and Commentary Health Law).

In addition to these positions, she is a judge on the Regional Disciplinary Court for Healthcare in Amsterdam. On two occasions, she has been invited as an expert to join a standing committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands.

She has a special interest in combining her administrative/organisational work for the Faculty and University with her academic work as a lecturer and researcher. Recently, she has been particularly active in setting up collaborations between health law and child law within the Faculty, and between Leiden Law School and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). This latter collaboration has resulted in a successful application under the National Science Agenda (NWA) in 2022.

Education

• PhD: 'Medical confidentiality in cases of child abuse: The duty of care of the doctor in the legal relationship between doctor, child and parents'.
• Law, University of Leiden
• French language and literature, University of Leiden

Current positions

• Director of Leiden Law School and appointed to the Faculty Board (2019-)
• Director Meijers Reseach Institute and Graduate School, Legal Postgraduate Training, Office for International Education, Marketing & Communication, Management Support & Information Service of Leiden Law School (2016-2019) 
• Member of the monitoring committee for the evaluation of the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse (Obligatory Reporting Code) Act and the Young People at Risk Reference Index Act (2019)
• Director of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School (2016-2019)
• Secretary of the Board of Research of Leiden Law School (2000-)
• Head of the Office for International Relations (1994-1998)

Other

• Consulted as expert to provide urgent advice on the vaccination of healthy children aged 12 years and older, and which vaccine to use (June 2021)
• Associate Professor Health Law (2020-)
• Author Text & Comments Health Law (since 2020)
• Assistant Professor at the Department of Child Law (2018-)
• Judge at the Regional Disciplinary Court for Healthcare in Amsterdam (2017-)
• Academic Coordinator Pre-PhD programme (2018-2019)
• Chairman of the Foundation KinderrechtenNU (2015-2016)
• Deputy Director of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School (1999-2015)
• Member of Leiden Interdisciplinary Network Child abuse & neglect (LINC) (2012-)
• Secretary of the Board of Research of Leiden Law School (2000-2019)
• Secretary of the Committee on Legal Postgraduate Education, University Leiden (2008)
• Secretary of the Advisory Committee for reorganisation of the Leiden Law School, University Leiden (2002)

Teaching and lectures

• 2022 JPAO Centre for Professional Learning 'Geweld in afhankelijkheidsrelaties'
• 2022 Webinar Sterk Thuis: 'Toestemmingsbeginsel & IVRK vanuit juridisch perspectief'
• 2021 JPAO Actualteitencollege gezondheidsrecht 
• 2020 Lecture (in Dutch) for National Expertise Centre on Child Abuse (LECK): Medical confidentiality and child abuse: New legal grounds for exchanging information 
• 2019 Lecture (in Dutch) for 5th annual conference on health law: The duty of care of medical practitioners
• 2019 Lecture (in Dutch) for confidential doctors and GPs: Medical confidentiality and child abuse: From conflict of duties towards duty of care 
• 2019 Lecture (in Dutch) A Children's rights perspective on mandatory mental health education in schools within the framework of the Gender, Inclusivity and Protecting the 21st Century Family Conference in London
• 2019 Privatissimum, Kind in het gezondheidsrecht (The child in health law) (master's course Child Law)
• 2019 Lecture (in Dutch) Child abuse: From conflict of duties towards duty of care
• 2018 Privatissimum (Master's course) Kind in het gezondheidsrecht (The child in health law) (master's course Child Law)
• 2018 Practicum Jeugdrecht, Internationale Kinderontvoering (international child abduction) (master's course Child Law)
• 2017 Juridische aspecten van kindermishandeling (Legal aspects of child abuse) (Minor) (master's course Child Law)
• 2016 Lecture (in Dutch) at 3rd national conference on domestic violence Domestic violence and child abuse: Helping, reporting and helping to report 
• 2015 Lecture (in Dutch) Medical confidentiality and child abuse: recent developments in disciplinary proceedings
• 2014 Presentation (in French) Paris II: Medical Confidentiality in cases of child abuse
• 2012 Lecture (in Dutch) Academisch Genootschap Friesland: Medical confidentiality and child abuse 
• 2012 Lecture (in Dutch) Leiden Interdisicplinary Network Child abuse & neglect (LINC): The duty of care and the duty of confidentiality of the doctor in cases of child abuse
• 2010 Postgraduate course on medial confidentiality in cases of child abuse
• 2010 Lecturer on master's course on health law
• 2009 Boerhaave course (taught in Dutch): The KNMG reporting code one year on - what's possible, what's permitted and what's obligatory (or not); the legal specifics

Publications

• Leiden Law Blog: Kindermishandeling: tijd om professionele stappen te zetten!
• Leiden Law Blog: Kinderen vaccineren tegen corona - in het belang van het kind?
• Hendriks A.C. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P., annotation: Rb. Gelderland 5 November 2021, no. C/05/394960 ZJ RK 21/1120, GJ 2022,1: 20-25 (GJ 2022/3 Verzoek toestemming kinderrechter voor vaccinatie tegen COVID-19 door 12-jarige).
• Silven A.V., Peet P.G. van, Boers S.N., Tabak M., Groot A. de, Hendriks D., Os H.J.A. van, Bonten T.N., Atsma D.E., Graaf T.J. de, Sombroek M.P., Chavannes N.H. & Villalobos-Quesada M.J. (2022), Clarifying responsibility: professional digital health in the doctor-patient relationship, recommendations for physicians based on a multi-stakeholder dialogue in the Netherlands, BMC Health Services Research 22: 1-10 (129).
• Hendriks A.C. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P., annotation: HR 16 July 2021, no. 19/05516, JBP 2021,5: 587-590 (JBP 2021/87 Wbp van toepassing met betrekking tot verwijdering persoonsgegevens uit hulpverleningsplan voor zover de beoordeling hiervan niet wordt geregeld in de Jeugdwet).
• Sombroek M.P. & Hendriks A.C. (2021), Gezondheidsrechtelijke kinderrechten in coronatijd: geen lockdown!. In: Bots B., Hermans W., Kraan D. van der, Poolman G., Rozenboom J., Verheij E. & Wissink L. (Eds.) Recht & Gezondheid. Gezondheid boven alles?. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 39-49.
• Sombroek-van Doorm M.P., Boom W.H. van, Ellian A. & Leun J.P. van der (Eds.) (2021), Cum Suis: vriendenboek Carel Stolker. Den Haag: Boom Juridisch.
• M.P. Sombroek-van Doorm & A.C. Hendriks annotation onder EHRM 15-06-2021, ECLI:CE:ECHR:2021:0615JUD006290315, (Kurt/Oostenrijk ), AB 20212/53.
• M.P. Sombroek-van Doorm & J. van der Leun (2021) 'De zorgplicht in twee contexten: een kwestie van erkennen en waarderen’. Cum Suis, Liber Amicorum, BJU
• Leiden Law Blog: COVID-19 en de geheimhoudings­plicht van de arts
• Blanckenburg B., Gerrits I.F.H.M. & Sombroek-van Doorm, M.P. (2020) Access to justice voor 12- tot 16-jarigen bij niet-nakoming van de geneeskundige behandelingsovereenkomst? Tijdschrift voor jeugdrecht 2020(4): 94-100
• Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (2020), Kindermishandeling, medisch beroepsgeheim en het participatierecht van het kind: Stappen in de goede richting. In: Bruning, M.R., Klep K.I.M., Punselie E.C.C. (red.) De invloed van 30 jaar Kinderrechtenverdrag in Nederland: Perspectieven voor de rechtspraktijk. Recht en Praktijk - Personen- en familierecht nr. 7. Deventer: Wolter Kluwers. 189-203.
• Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. & Conway D.M.A. (2019), Hoe betekenisvol is het participatierecht van het kind in de KNMG-meldcode kindermishandeling en huiselijk geweld (2018), Tijdschrift voor jeugdrecht 2019(3): 77-82.
• M.P. Sombroek-van Doorm, Medisch beroepsgeheim en de zorgplicht van de arts bij kindermishandeling in de rechtsverhouding tussen arts, kind en ouders, Den Haag: Boom juridisch 2019.
• Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (2019), Medisch beroepsgeheim en kindermishandeling - van 'conflict van plichten' naar zorgplicht, Tijdschrift voor Familie- en jeugdrecht 2019(11): 274-279.
• Ploem M.C. & Sombroek M.P. (2018), Afwegingskader voor melden van kindermishandeling: nog minder ruimte voor afwegen?, Tijdschrift voor gezondheidsrecht (42)3: 218-222.
• Bruning M.R. & Sombroek M.P., annotatie bij: RTG Den Haag 9 januari 2018, nr. 2017-170, Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht 2018,3; 232-241 (melden kindermishandeling/medisch beroepsgeheim)
• 2016 Het medisch beroepsgeheim en kinderbescherming; bijdrage in Jaarverslag Tuchtcolleges voor de Gezondheidszorg en het College van Medisch Toezicht 2015
• Hendriks A.C., Roode R.P. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (2009), Nieuwe KNMG-meldcode kindermishandeling aan de tuchtrechtspraak getoetst, Tijdschrift voor Familie- en Jeugdrecht 107(11): 285-290. (article in journal)
• Stolker C.J.J.M. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P., Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht 2005; 426 (Baby Kelly; aansprakelijkheid hulpverlener, wrongful life-actie voor het eerst toegewezen naast wrongful birth-actie). (annotation)
• Stolker C.J.J.M. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (1999), D-Lit: Nederlands recht in vertaling verzameld, De Juridische Bibliothecaris: 28-29. (article in journal)
• Stolker C.J.J.M. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (2003), Une existence illégitime aux Pays-Bas, European Review of Private Law 2: 227-237. (article in journal)
• Stolker C.J.J.M. & Sombroek-van Doorm M.P. (2003), De wrongful life-vordering: schadevergoeding of euthanasie?, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht: 496-506. (article in journal)
• 1992 Publication of the results of her master’s thesis “The influence of the European Commission in Sweden” in the first edition of a series of the Mordenate College (1992)

Editorship

Sombroek-van Doorm M.P., Boom W.H. van, Ellian A. & Leun J.P. van der (Eds.) (2021), Cum Suis: Vriendenboek Carel Stolker. Den Haag: Boom Juridisch.

Interviews based on the dissertation

• Interview kinderrechtencollectief juli 2021
• Medisch contact: Kindermishandeling: zorg-, meld- en zwijgplicht afwegen
• Nederlands Jeugdinstituut: ‘Juridische hulp voor toepassen meldcode’
• Leidsch Dagblad: ‘Oplossing voor duivels dilemma: wat doet arts bij vermoeden van kindermishandeling?’
• Reformatorisch Dagblad: ‘De dokter moet zwijgen of juist niet'
• Defence for Children: ‘Het medisch beroepsgeheim versus het melden van (mogelijke) kindermishandeling’
• Mare: ‘Kindermishandeling: wanneer moet een arts het beroepsgeheim doorbreken?’
• Zorg & Welzijn: ‘Huisarts kan niet uitgaan van meldingsplicht bij kindermishandeling’
• Privacyweb: ‘In gesprek met een beweger: Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm promovenda aan de universiteit Leiden’

Working days

Monday to Friday, 09.00-18.00 hrs.

Publications