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Dr. mr. N.J. (Nik) de Boer

Faculty of Law
Constitutional and Administrative Law

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: 9.05
Postal address
  • Postbus 15557
    1001 NB Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Bio Nik de Boer

    Nik de Boer is Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Law School. His research focuses on constitutional law, EU law and political theory. In 2018 he received his PhD degree cum laude from the University of Amsterdam. His doctoral thesis 'Judging European Democracy' was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law and offers a systematic analysis of how we should assess the democratic legitimacy of the national constitutional courts' review of European law.

    Nik held visiting positions at the European Court of Justice, Harvard Law School and the Center for Global Constitutionalism WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre. Previously, he was a postdoctoral reseacher at the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Private Law of the Amsterdam Law School, where he taught financial law and was the academic coordinator of the Master in Law and Finance, as well as of the Faculty's PhD programme. Nik studied Law (LLB, cum laude, LLM in Legal Research, cum laude) and Philosophy (BA, cum laude) at Utrecht University and the University of Cambridge. For his Master Thesis Constitutional Identity, Fundamental Rights and the Issue of Divergent Rights Standards in the EU  he received the Prize for Best Master Thesis of Utrecht University in 2012, as well as the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award.  During his studies he was an editor of the Dutch law journal Ars Aequi and an intern at the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York.

    Research Interests

    • EU Constitutional Law
    • Economic and Monetary Union
    • Democratic and Constitutional Theory
    • Financial Law

    Teaching (present)

    • Private Law and Inequality (Bachelor)
    • Constitutioneel Recht (Bachelor)
    • European Integration and National Constitutions (LL.M.)
    • EU Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights (LL.M)
    • The Philosophy of Legal Research (PhD seminar)

    Teaching (past)

    • Financieel Recht (LL.M)
    • Securities and Markets Regulation (LL.M)
    • PhD Programme (coordinator)
    • Europees Recht I (LL.B)
    • Europees Recht II (LL.B)
    • LL.M in Law & Finance (coordinator)
  • Publications

    2023

    • de Boer, N. J. (Accepted/In press). Judging European Democracy: The Role and Legitimacy of National Constitutional Courts in the EU. (Oxford Studies in European Law). Oxford University Press.
    • van 't Klooster, J., & de Boer, N. (2023). What to do with the ECB’s secondary mandate. Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(3), 730-746. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13406 [details]

    2021

    2020

    2013

    • de Boer, N. J. (2013). Fundamental rights and the EU internal market: just how fundamental are the EU treaty freedoms? A normative enquiry based on John Rawls' political philosophy. Utrecht Law Review, 9(1), 148-168. https://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.219 [details]

    2018

    • de Boer, N. (2018). The False Promise of Constitutional Pluralism. In G. Davies, & M. Avbelj (Eds.), Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law (pp. 199-222). (Research Handbooks in European Law). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433091 [details]

    2013

    • de Boer, N. J. (2013). Constitutional identity, fundamental rights and the issue of divergent rights standards in the EU: a normative enquiry. Utrecht: Science Shop of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University. [details]

    2009

    • de Boer, N. J. (2009). The theoretical foundations of the Common Core of European Private Law Project: a critical appraisal. European Review of Private Law, 17(5), 841-851.

    2021

    2019

    • de Boer, N. (2019). Signalering: Judging European Democracy: National Constitutional Review of European Law and Its Democratic Legitimacy. Trema, 2019(1). [details]

    2018

    • de Boer, N. (Ed.) (2018). Globalisering: waar blijft de moraal? (deel 2). S&D (Socialisme & Democratie), 75(2), 34-95.
    • de Boer, N. J. (2018). Globalisering: waar blijft de moraal? S&D (Socialisme & Democratie), 75(1).

    2015

    2014

    2013

    2012

    • de Boer, N. J. (2012). [Review of: T. Ginsburg, R. Dixon (2011) Comparative constitutional law]. Common Market Law Review, 49(4), 1508-1510. [details]
    • de Boer, N. J., Dijkman, L., & van Kampen, S. (2012). The changing role of principles in the European multi-layered legal order: conference report of the symposium 'Principles and the Law', Utrecht University, 25 May 2011. European Review of Private Law, 20(2), 425-434. [details]

    2011

    • de Boer, N. (2011). [Review of: A. Torres Pérez (2009) Conflicts of rights in the European Union: a theory of supranational adjudication]. Common Market Law Review, 48(4), 1349-1353.

    2020

    • de Boer, N. J., & van 't Klooster, J. M. (2020). The ECB, the courts and the issue of democratic legitimacy after Weiss. Paper presented at Ius Commune Conference 2020 Workshop: The EU after Weiss: Constitutional, Political and Economic consequences, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    • de Boer, N. (editor) (2018-2022). European Constitutional Law Review (Journal).
    • de Boer, N. (editor) (2018). European Constitutional Law Review (Journal).
    • de Boer, N. (editor) (2018). Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (Journal).
    • de Boer, N. (reviewer) (2016-2020). S&D (Socialisme & Democratie) (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • de Boer, N. (speaker) (21-2-2017). Soevereiniteit, democratie en de Grondwet, Juridisch Forum Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, Den Haag.
    • de Boer, N. (speaker) (9-2-2017). Judging European Democracy, VU Centre for European Legal Studies Seminar, Amsterdam.
    • de Boer, N. (speaker) & Majastre, C. (speaker) (29-10-2016). With the Law on our Side: Judicialisation and Juridification of German EU politics in the Euro-crisis, European Sociological Association.

    2018

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