Dirk Broekhuijsen (1987) is associate professor at the Department for Tax Law at Leiden University.

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Dirk Broekhuijsen (1987) graduated in Tax Law at Leiden University and in Law at Durham University (cum laude). In 2017, he defended his PhD thesis “A Multilateral Tax Treaty: Designing an Instrument to Modernise International Tax Law”. After finishing his PhD, Dirk worked for the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, first as tax talent trainee, and then as advisor and interim coordinator for personal income taxes at the tax office for Small and Medium Enterprises in Amsterdam.

In 2018, Dirk won the biennial “dissertation prize” of the Dutch Association for Tax Sciences, an award given to the writer of the best Dutch PhD thesis on or related to Dutch tax law. In 2014, he won the IFA President YIN Scientific Award for his article ‘A Modern Understanding of Article 31(3)(c) VCLT: A New Haunt for the Commentaries to the OECD Model?’ 

Dirk’s research interests relate to the legal and political dimensions of multilateral cooperation in international taxation. He has also published on the relevance and influence of OECD soft law on bilateral tax treaties and on the influence of public international law on international tax law. Moreover, Dirk is interested in the administrative practice of personal income taxes, focusing on situations where individual tailor-made legal outcomes come into tension with the Administration’s objective to process large volumes of cases.

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