Adriaan Bedner
Professor Law and Society in Indonesia
- Name
- Prof.mr.dr. A.W. Bedner
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7252
- a.w.bedner@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7282-1620
Adriaan Bedner is Professor of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society. He is also Head of Department of the Van Vollenhoven Institute and honorary fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia -
Three main results of VVI’s Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI) -
Final conference international NUFFIC project Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI) on 28-29 March in Mataram, Lombok -
NUFFIC awards Van Vollenhoven Institute grant to train Indonesian law lecturers in socio-legal approaches -
Maintaining Order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia -
Formal land tenure in East-Timor: an insider's perspective -
Why citizen participation is not helping to stop environmental pollution in Indonesia -
Adriaan Bedner on NPO Radio 1 about controversial new law in Indonesia -
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative regional integration awarded to Leiden University -
Seminar on Criminalising and Emancipatory Trends in Family Law in Indonesia and other Muslim Majority Countries -
Call for papers: Islam (re-)Observed -
Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnerships -
Changes at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI)
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Report of the Conference ‘Adat law 100 years on: towards a new interpretation?’ now available -
Indonesia-Netherlands Security and Rule of Law Update 2018 in Jakarta
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
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The 1st Indonesian-Australian-Netherlands Socio-Legal Studies Conference
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Child Marriage in Indonesia: Research Sharing & Academic Writing Workshop -
Call for papers: International Conference 'Adat Law 100 years on: towards a new interpretation?' -
Article in 'de Volkskrant' by Adriaan Bedner
Inaugural Lecture
Adriaan Bedner is professor of Law and Society in Indonesia, Head of Department of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, and honorary fellow of the KITLV.
Adriaan’s research has a focus on access to justice, legal reasoning, family law and land law – in particular in Indonesia. This has led to publications on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from administrative courts and environmental litigation to human rights promotion in marriage law regimes and Indonesian legal education. He has supervised numerous PhD students and taught many courses at Leiden Law School and Leiden University College, including 'Law and Governance in Asia', 'Political and Economic Foundations of Law' and 'Making Human Rights Work'.
Adriaan has been involved in many research and legal education projects in Indonesia, sponsored among others by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Dutch Research Council, the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs and NUFFIC. He is Chair of the Board of the International Institute of Asian Studies, editor of Routledge’s Book Series Law, Development and Globalization, and a member of the Working Group on Legal Co-operation Indonesia-Netherlands.
Professor Law and Society in Indonesia
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Metajuridica
- Van Vollenhoven Instituut
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Bedner A.W. (13 October 2017). Sempre rubato ma non a piacere: de voortdurende noodzaak van rechtsdifferentiatie in Indonesië. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Bedner A.W. (10 December 2002), Judicial Corruption: Some Consequences, Causes and Remedies. Symposium ter gelegenheid van het afscheid J. van Olden als directeur van het CILC. Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (14 April 2002), Human Rights and Good Governance. Gastcollege. Institute of Social Studies. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (21 June 2001), Water pollution in West Java: the case of Rancaekek and Cisirung. Insela Seminar. Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. & Rooij B. van (20 June 2001), Some reflections on environmental disputes and enforcement of environmental law in developing countries. Insela Seminar. Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (4 December 2000), Handhaving van milieurecht in Indonesië. onderzoekslezing gehouden op het Meijers Instituut. Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (14 August 1999), Independensi Kekuasaan Kehakiman di Indonesia dan Belanda. lezing gehouden aan de Universitas Parahyangan. Bandung. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (16 December 1999), In de vuurlinie tussen staat en burgers: de Indonesische administratieve rechter en het huwelijk. paper gepresenteerd op conferentie Sociale Cohesie & Multiculturalismen. E.M. Meijers Instituut, Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (26 April 1999), From the Old to the New EMA: Integration or Disintegration of the Legal Potential for Enforcement?. Paper presented to the seminar Towards Integrated Environmental Management in Indonesia. Leiden. [lecture].
- Bedner A.W. (30 August 1999), Independensi Kekuasaan Kehakiman di Indonesia dan Belanda. lezing gehouden voor de Universitas Indonesia. Jakarta. [lecture].