Dutch 
Staff
A. Wouter Hins
Associate Professor
 
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
Oudemanhuispoort 4
1012 CN Amsterdam
Room G104
tel: +31 20 - 525 49 33
/ 39 66
fax: +31 20 - 525 34 95
 
 


Curriculum Vitae

Wouter Hins is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Amsterdam (60%) and Professor of Media Law at Leiden University (40%). He takes a special interest in human rights and mass communication, in particular freedom of speech, freedom of the press, media accountability, pluralism and access to government information.

Furthermore, he is a member of the complaints committees of the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority) and the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (Netherlands Public Broadcasting. He is also an editor of the Dutch journal Mediaforum and responsible for the quarterly column 'Mediarecht' (Media Law) in Ars Aequi.


Publications
Plurality of Political Opinions and the Concentration of Media, in: J.H.M. van Erp and L.P.W. van Vliet (eds.), Netherlands Reports to the Eighteenth International Congress of Comparative Law. Washington 2010, Antwerp - Oxford - Portland: Intersentia 2010, p. 469-494.

This report is about the theory and practice of Dutch law concerning media concentrations and looks into the future developments.

10.09.2010


(with D. Voorhoof), Access to State-Held Information as a Fundamental Right under the European Convention on Human Rights, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Cambridge University Press, 2007-1, p. 114-126.

Access to state-held information essential in a democratic society - Traditional reluctance of the European Court of Human Rights to apply Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights in access to information cases - Positive obligations and new perspectives: initiatives within the Council of Europe - Parallel with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - Sdruženi Jihoceské Matky decision of the European Court: the beginning of a new era?

11.05.2007


Updated 05.02.2013