Dr Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. Before transferring to Leiden Law School, he taught at Leiden University's Institute for Political Science, within the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).

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During the 2014-2015 academic year, he served as a ‘Research Fellow in Legal Studies’ at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ. He participated in an interdisciplinary research project entitled ‘Law and Religious Freedom’. His fellowship resulted in the publication of his monograph 'Constitutionalism, Democracy and Religious Freedom. To Be Fully Human' (Routledge, 2017; paperback edition, 2019).

In addition, he recently co-edited and co-authored the volumes 'Een nieuwe politieke formule. Ideeën voor staat en samenleving geïnspireerd door Alexis de Tocqueville' (A New Political Formula. Ideas for State and Society Inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville) (2021), 'Het radicale midden overzee. Verkenningen van het postliberalisme' (The Radical Middle Overseas. Explorations of Postliberalism) (2021) and 'Culture, Secularization, and Democracy. Lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville' (2024).

Since 2021, he has also been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy in Plano, TX, serving on the Executive Editorial Council of the Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy. In 2024, he was invited to give the Center for Public Justice’s 27th annual Kuyper Lecture at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI.

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