Joanne van der Leun is Professor of Criminology.

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Joanne van der Leun is Professor of Criminology. She currently holds various administrative positions.

On behalf of the rector, Joanne van der Leun is chair of the temporary Committee on Ethical Aspects of Collaborations. In addition, she is coordinating the national cross-cutting theme of the Social Sciences and Humanities sector plan for the SSH Council. At Leiden Law School, among other activities, she is chair of the FdR450 anniversary committee.

Joanne van der Leun was Dean of Leiden Law School from 2016 to 2023. She also chaired the council of law schools in the Netherlands, the RDR, and was a member of the SSH Council (social science and humanities). In 2024, she was chair of one of the clusters of the national education accreditation for law. She has a special affinity with the themes of internationalisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, educational innovation, leadership and diversity & inclusion. In 2020, she was chosen in the top 50 of most influential women in Leiden (the first edition of the Leiden Top 50).

She previously worked at Utrecht University, where she had been a student, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she had obtained her PhD with a dissertation on irregular migration.

Research

Her research focuses on crime, migration, human trafficking and crimmigration, or the intertwinement of crime policy and migration policy. She is a research fellow in the research programme Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectivity. As a supervisor, she supervises several PhD candidates together with fellow colleagues.

Teaching

Joanne van der Leun currently only gives guest lectures. She was one of the pioneers of the Leiden Criminology degree programmes and taught the bachelor's and master's programmes in Criminology and Comparative Criminal Justice. She was involved in developing and teaching a wide range of courses in the Criminology and Law degree programmes.

Publications