Titia Loenen is Professor 'emeritus' of Human Rights and Diversity at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law.

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Titia Loenen is Professor 'emeritus' of Human Rights and Diversity at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law.

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Titia Loenen studied history and law at Leiden University. In 1984 she was appointed as assistant professor in ' Women and law' at this university and obtained her doctorate in law in 1992. Her PhD thesis was entitled  ‘Verschil in Gelijkheid. De conceptualisering van het juridische gelijkheidsbeginsel met betrekking tot vrouwen en mannen in Nederland en de Verenigde Staten’ (Difference in Equality. The Conceptualisation of the Legal Principle of Equality as Regards Women and Men in the Netherlands and the United States). 

After having been employed for many years at Utrecht University as Professor of Women’s Legal Studies and subsequently Professor of Legal Theory, she returned to Leiden University as Professor of Human Rights and Diversity in 2013. Here she designed and developed the Advanced LLM European and International Human Rights Law. 

Her publications cover human rights, equality issues and international, European and national non-discrimination law in comparative perspective. Many focus on gender and multicultural issues. 

As a lecturer, she set up many courses on gender and law, equality, human rights, and pluralism.

As of 17 October 2024 she is emeritus professor. Shortly after this date her book on equality as a legal concept was published, which flows from her 40 year work on this topic. It is available as an open access publication:
Loenen M.L.P. (2025), The conceptualization of equality and non-discrimination as legal standards: from formal to more substantive equality. Nijhoff Law Specials nr. 111. Leiden | Boston: Brill | Nijhoff. 

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