prof. dr. Marc Hertogh

Marc Hertogh (1968) is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Chair of the Department of Legal Theory at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He studied law at Leiden University and at the London School of Economics and Political Science; and he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford). His research focuses on public opinion about law, with a special interest in legal consciousness, legal pluralism, and administrative justice.

Among his publications are “Coercion, Cooperation, and Control: Understanding the Policy Impact of Administrative Courts and the Ombudsman in the Netherlands” (Law & Policy 23, 2001); “A ‘European’ Conception of Legal Consciousness: Rediscovering Eugen Ehrlich” (Journal of Law and Society 31, 2004); “What is Non-State Law? Mapping the Other Hemisphere of the Legal World” (Van Schooten & Verschuuren (eds.), International Governance and Law, 2008); and “What’s in a Handshake? Legal Equality and Legal Consciousness in the Netherlands” (Social & Legal Studies 18, 2009). Recent books include Judicial Review and Bureaucratic Impact (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (with Simon Halliday) and Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich ( Hart Publishing, 2009).

Professor Hertogh is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Dutch Council for the Judiciary and he has acted as an adviser to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, and the National Ombudsman Office in the Netherlands. He is the Law and Society correspondent of the Dutch Lawyers’ Journal and he has also served on the Editorial Board of the Dutch/Flemish Law & Society Review.

He is a member of the Law and Society Association (LSA), the Dutch/Flemish Law and Society Association (VSR) and he also actively participates in workshops and conferences of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Recent publications in English: Full list

 

1. Hertogh, M. (2011), 'Loyalists, Cynics and Outsiders. Who Are the Critics of the Justice System in the UK and the Netherlands?,' International Journal of Law in Context, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 31-46. Electronic copy available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1673744
   
   

2. Hertogh, M. (2010), 'Crime and Custom in the Dutch Construction Industry,' Legisprudence, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 307-326. Electronic copy available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1532182
   
   

3. Hertogh, M. (2010), Through the Eyes of Bureaucrats: How Front-Line Officials Understand Administrative Justice, in: M. Adler (Ed.), Administrative Justice in Context. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 203-225. ISBN 978 1 84113 928 9. Electronic copy available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371523
   
   

4. Marc Hertogh (Ed.) (2009), Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich (Oñati International Series in Law and Society). Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp 1-280. ISBN 978 1 84113 897 8.
   See: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841138985
   
   

5. Hertogh, M. (2009), 'What's in a Handshake? Legal Equality and Legal Consciousness in the Netherlands,' Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 221-239. Electronic copy available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1272483
   
   

6. Marc Hertogh and Simon Halliday  (eds.) (2004), Judicial Review and Bureaucratic Impact: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 1-315. ISBN 0 521 83918 1.
   
   
7. Hertogh, M. (2004), A 'European' Conception of Legal Consciousness: Rediscovering Eugen Ehrlich, Journal of Law and Society,Vol. 31, No. 4 , pp. 457-481.
   
   
8. Hertogh, M. (2001), Coercion, Cooperation, and Control: Understanding the Policy Impact of Administrative Courts and the Ombudsman in the Netherlands, Law & Policy 2001-1, 47-67.

    

9. Hertogh, M. (2000), Evaluating Ombudsman Systems, in: R. Gregory & P. Giddings (eds.), Righting Wrongs: the Ombudsman in Six Continents (IIAS Monographs, vol. 13), Amsterdam/Berlin/Oxford/Tokyo/Washington, D.C.: IOS Press 2000, 389-402, ISBN 1 58603 044 2 (with S.E. Aufrecht).

    

10. Hertogh, M. (1999). The Conscientious Watermaster: Rediscovering the Interactional Concept of Law, in: W.J. Witteveen & W. van der Burg (Eds.), Rediscovering Fuller: Essays on Implicit Law and Institutional Design, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 1999, 363-385. ISBN 90 5356 387 3.