Chairs

Public Governance Law

Main focus & activities

The Chair is responsible for research and education on matters of Constitutional & Administrative Law, Good Public Legal Governance, Privatisation, Hybridisation and Supervision, Government & Markets, Regulation and Technology Innovation, Environmental & Sustainability Law, and Legal Design Methodology.

A special focus lies with multi-actor regulatory governance in a multi-level context, in which public law stretches beyond the traditional scope of the Trias Politica. This is also combined with a focus on (the design of) smart rules & regimes concerning facilitating and safeguarding of desired, as well as protecting against undesired effects of technological innovation – with a focus on sustainability, nano-medicine and infrastructures.

Key publications

·	Bärbel R. Dorbeck-Jung, & M.J van Heffen-Oude Vrielink, Do legal rules based on self-regulation affect the behaviour of doctors?, in: N. Zeegers e.a., Social and symbolic effects of legislation under the rule of law, Lewiston- New York 2005, 203-219.

·	Bärbel R. Dorbeck-Jung, Beelden over de wetgevingsadvisering van de Raad van State. Hoe wetgevingskwaliteit gemaakt wordt, Den Haag 2003.

·	Dick W.P. Ruiter, Is Transaction Cost Economics Applicable to Public Governance? European Journal of Law and Economics 20 (2005), 287-303.

·	Dick W.P. Ruiter, Legal Institutions. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

·	Michiel A. Heldeweg, Bestuursrecht met beleid, 3^e druk, Groningen 2006

·	Michiel A. Heldeweg, Towards Good Environmental Governance in Europe, in: European Environmental Law Review, 2005/1, p. 2-24

Important Networks

Netherlands Institute for Governance (NIG), esp. with regard to the Public Values theme

Ius Commune Research School, esp. the programme on Environmental Law

De Staatsrechtkring (bestuur)

Next generation Infrastructures (NGI), esp. the Smart Rules&Regimes theme

Juridisch Platform Twente (with the Academy for Law & Governance of the Saxion University for Applied science)

Cooperation with the province of Overijssel (with Political Science)

Staff/participants (mr. = Dutch equivalent of LLM.)

· prof.mr.dr. Michiel A. Heldeweg (chair)

· mr.drs. Lesley C.P. Broos (Researcher Information Infrastructure markets)

· drs. Wim E. van de Griendt (external PhD-student)

· dr. Bärbel R. Dorbeck-Jung (full professor Law&Regulation)

· mr.drs. Marc Harmsen (assistant professor – Administrative Law)

· mr.dr. Caroline Raat (lecturer&researcher – Public Law)

· prof.mr.dr. Dick W.P. Ruiter (emeritus professor – Legal Theory)

· drs. Maurits P.T. Sanders (associated PhD-student – Public Private Partnerships)