Curriculum Vitae of prof. Kees Groenendijk

 

 

1943               born in Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1967               graduation from Law Faculty, University of Utrecht

1967-1969     military service in the Royal Navy

1969-1973     advocate at the Amsterdam Bar

1973-1982     research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Sociology of Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Nijmegen

1975-              editor of a yearbook of Dutch and international case-law on immigration, refugees and race relations

1981               Ph.D. on collective interests in civil courts

1982-              Professor in sociology of law at the University of Nijmegen

1993-1995     Dean of the Law Faculty

1995-              Chairman of the Centre for Migration Law

 

Main research interests: immigration, refugee and race relations legislation, regulation of international migration, the legal profession, legal aid, defense of collective interests and group rights.

 

Recent publications: on European immigration policies (Schengen and the European Union), the impact of human rights instruments on the legal status of aliens, riots against immigrant workers in the Netherlands, the limits and possibilities of implementing national migration policies, the status of Turkish workers under the Association Agreement EEC-Turkey, estimating legal immigrants, temporary employment of migrants in Europe, regulation of ethnic immigration: the case of the Aussiedler, public reactions to the establishment of Muslim institutions in the Netherlands, security of residence of long-term migrants.

 

Main non-academic functions:

1980-1990     member of the Advisory Committee for research on ethnic minorities of the Minister of Home Affairs and the Minister of Welfare and Culture

1977-1997     member of the Legal Committee of the Dutch Refugee Council

1985-1995     member of the Commission on Ethnic Minorities Research of the Netherlands Science Organisation (NWO)

1989-              member and chairman of the Standing committee of experts on international immigration, refugee and criminal law

1990-1992     member of the advisory committees of the Netherlands Government on asylum procedures and reception of asylum seekers, on the enforcement of immigration legislation against illegal immigrants and on new legislation on admission of aliens for employment

1993-1994     expert for the International Organisation for Migration and the Council of Europe advising the Government of the Russian Federation on citizenship and migration legislation

1993               Consultant to the UN Centre for Human Righs on a technical assistance program for the Russian Federation/consultant on the Draft of the Aliens Law and the Ombudsman Law of the Russian Federation

1993-              Member of the Network Free movement of workers with the Commission of the European Communities

1993-              member of the Board of the Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations, supporting the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities

1994               member of the Council of Europe Expert Group advising the Russian Federation on legislation on migrant labour

1996-1998     Consultant for the Council of Europe on the legal status of long-term migants

1997               Expert for the IOM on Lithuanian Law on the legal status of aliens