Marloes van Noorloos appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Marloes van Noorloos is appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Leiden University from 1 February 2025.
Criminal law in context
In her new role as professor, Van Noorloos will hold a key position within the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. She will further develop research lines in the areas of inequality in criminal procedure and criminal justice, as well as social protest, and will also help to establish collaborations within the faculty. For example, she is co-coordinator of the research programme Criminal Justice: Socially Effective Criminal Justice, which focuses on the role of criminal justice in society and the values and view of humanity that underpin it.
She also plays an important role in organising and further developing education in criminal law at the bachelor’s, master’s and post-academic level.
A diverse career at the intersection of criminal justice and human rights
Van Noorloos graduated cum laude with a degree in Law from Tilburg University, specialising in international and European public law. In 2011, she obtained a doctorate for her thesis ‘Hate Speech Revisited: A comparative and historical perspective on hate speech law in the Netherlands and England & Wales’. She subsequently worked at Tilburg University where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. She moved to Leiden University in 2023.
The research of Marloes van Noorloos focuses on the intersection of criminal (procedural) law and human rights, at a national, comparative and European/international level. She publishes on themes including discrimination, speech offences, the right to demonstrate, terrorism, migration and criminal law, fact-finding (e.g. DNA testing) and transitional justice. She has conducted research at Oxford University and at Queen Mary University of London, and carried out various studies for organisations including the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) and the Parliament & Science partnership. She is also editor of the journal Crimmigratie & Recht.
Bridging science and society
Marloes van Noorloos is not only a scholar, but she also builds bridges between the academic world and society in the field of fundamental and human rights. From 2013 to 2017, she was president of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists (NJCM) and in that capacity, she co-founded the Public Interest Litigation Project (PILP). She is also a member of the Bureau Clara Wichmann’s network of experts, the Meijers Committee (Standing Committee of Experts in International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal Law) and the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights and the Performance of Duties of Civil Servants, among others. At Leiden Law School, she co-organises the lecture series ‘Space for Academic Debate’.
In addition to the above, she contributes to the public debate through appearances in media such as news and current affairs programmes including Nieuwsuur and NOS Journaal. She has also given presentations in the House of Representatives, the European Parliament and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Vision
Marloes van Noorloos sees it as her task to examine criminal law with an eye to the social context in which it is embedded and the underlying considerations of values. She aims to critically examine topical issues while making them understandable to a wide audience. With her appointment, Marloes van Noorloos brings not only scientific expertise, but also a strong social vision to Leiden.