Marcel de Groodt joined the Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law as a PhD fellow on September 1, 2022.

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Marcel de Groodt joined the Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law as a Phd fellow on 1 September 2022.
He studied Law at the University of Amsterdam and completed the Master's degree in Criminal Law (Public Law) in 2019 with a thesis research on the compatibility of Predictive identification and the presumption of innocence.

After working briefly as a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Amsterdam, he has been employed as a lecturer in criminal law and junior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from June 2020 to August 2022. His work there consisted of providing working groups in various criminal law undergraduate subjects, providing working groups and coordinating the master's course in Financial Economic Criminal Law and conducting research, commissioned by the WODC, on ‘self-investigation and self-reporting of fraud and corruption by companies’.

Research

His PhD research focuses on the private-integrated approach to organised undermining crime. This PhD research mainly focuses on mapping and valuing enforcement models where the government uses information obtained through private parties, not being private detectives or investigative journalists. It considers both mandatory and more voluntary variants, making this research range from mandatory reporting and gatekeeping functions to public-private partnerships and shades of grey such as self-investigations. The question that arises with regard to these enforcement models is how they relate to criminal procedure principles, in particular the nemo tenetur principle.

Teaching

His work includes teaching various criminal law subjects, specifically in criminal procedure law and financial criminal (procedural) law and supervising undergraduate and graduate theses.