Marcel de Groodt joined the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology as a PhD fellow on 1 September 2022.

More information about Marcel de Groodt

Marcel studied Law at the University of Amsterdam and completed the Master's degree in Criminal Law (Public Law) in 2019 with a thesis 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 was 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 teaching tutorials in various criminal law undergraduate subjects, teaching tutorials 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 subversive 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, so that this research ranges from mandatory reporting and gatekeeping functions to public-private partnerships and grey areas 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 courses, specifically in criminal procedure law and financial criminal (procedural) law and supervising undergraduate and graduate theses.