Niels Demper
PhD candidate
- Name
- Mr. C.W. Demper
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- c.w.demper@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9557-2655
Niels Demper is connected to the Institute for Private Law as Meijers PhD fellow since 1 January 2020.
More information about Niels Demper
Supervisors
Niels Demper studied law (LLB) and Civil law (LLM, cum laude) at Leiden University (2013 – 2018). From September 2018 to December 2019 he was a lecturer in civil law at Leiden Law School.
Since January 2020 he is connected to the Institute for Private Law, department of Civil Law, as Meijers PhD fellow.
Research
Working title research: Judicial review of discretionary administrative decisions: theory and practice
Niels’ research deals with the judicial assessment of discretionary administrative conduct. He focusses on how civil courts review the acts and omissions of the government and has a strong interest in the phenomenon of judicial deference and the way the principle of proportionality operates within private law.
Promotors: Alex Geert Castermans and Tom Barkhuysen.
Teaching
Niels teaches both Bachelor’s and Master’s courses, such as the Introductory course to Private Law, the Law of Obligations, Property Law and Practicum in Civil Law, and supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses.
PhD candidate
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Privaatrecht
- Civiel recht
- Castermans A.G. & Demper C.W. (2024), Inbreuk op een recht en (on)zorgvuldig gedrag: Hoge Raad 12 januari 2024, ECLI:NL:HR:2024:17, RvdW 2024/105 (Afzinkkelder), Ars Aequi 73(6): 535-546 (AA20240535).
- Demper C.W. (2023), Rechterlijke toetsing van lagere regelgeving aan rechtsbeginselen: waarom de burgerlijke rechter explicieter moet aansluiten bij de toetsing van algemeen verbindende voorschriften door de bestuursrechter, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht 2023(4): 107-118 (NTBR 2023/13).
- Demper C.W., annotation: Hoge Raad 19 June 2020, no. 19/00962 & 19/04026, ECLI:NL:HR:2020:1082 & ECLI:NL:HR:2020:1090. JGR 2020(4): 362-366 & 366-379 (2020/31 & 2020/32 JGR 2020/31 Miragelplombe & JGR 2020/32 PIP-borstimplantaten).
- Castermans A.G. & Demper C.W., annotation: Hoge Raad 19 July 2019, no. 17/04567, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:1223. AA 68(12): 981-990 (Rond Srebrenica: de zorgplicht in tijden van oorlog).
- Verheijen B.A., Demper C.W., Du Bois N. & Ruiter R.J. de (Eds.) (2018), Juridische Dienstverlening in de 21e eeuw. Den Haag: Sdu.
- Castermans A.G. & Demper C.W. (2017), Kwalificatie en uitleg van de overeenkomst van multimodaal vervoer, Ars Aequi 66(4): 338-346 (AA20170338).