Dutch 
Staff
Aernout J. Nieuwenhuis
Associate professor
 
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
Oudemanhuispoort 4
1012 CN Amsterdam
Room G101a
tel: +31 20 - 525 39 50
fax: +31 20 - 525 30 33
 
 


Curriculum Vitae
Aernout J. Nieuwenhuis studied political science, philosophy and law. His thesis (Amsterdam 1991) was on freedom of the press and press policy: press merger control and state aid for the press in France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. He was awarded a research fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, resulting in the book Over de grens van de uitingsvrijheid (Beyond the limits of freedom of speech. Justifications and restrictions of freedom of speech in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, Amsterdam 1997).

He is member of the constitutional law department and affiliate member of the Institute of Information Law. He lectures on constitutional and administrative law, and he gives the optional courses `Comparative constitutional law', and `Freedom of speech'. He is co-author of the book Uitingsvrijheid (Freedom of Expression, Amsterdam 2000) and he publishes regularly on constitutional law and information law issues. He is a member of the editorial staff of the information law journal Mediaforum.


Publications

The concept of pluralism in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, European Constitutional Law Review, 2007-3, p. 367-384.

Meanings of pluralism in different disciplines - Meaning in jurisprudence, esp. European Court of Human Rights - Feature of society and idea of society - Individual freedom v. group existence - Politics, religion, education - Pluralism as expression of rights and as guarantee of rights - Rejection of legal pluralism - Contradiction of elitist theory - State protection of pluralism and its limits

20.12.2007


Updated 21.12.2007