Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Laurens van Apeldoorn
2022-2023
Home institution
Open University
Country of origin (home institution)
Netherlands
Discipline(s)
Law
Theme(s)
Democracy, Citizenship, Governance
Post-colonialism
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Laurens is a NIAS Theme Group Fellow (Political Theories of Involuntary Servitude within Europe (1600-1850)) during 2022-2023.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Tax Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands. My research within the research programme 'Limits of Tax Jurisdiction' concentrates on the philosophical foundations of (international) taxation. I also have research interests in constitutional law and legal history. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Theory at the Open University, the Nederlands, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University. I have been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, O'Brien Fellow in Residence at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto.
Research Project
Civil Slavery in Early Modern Theories of the State
The research project investigates how conceptions of slavery and involuntary servitude, in particular arising from conquest in war, were taken up in seventeenth-century English political and legal thought to describe and justify political authority and the state.
Research Interests:
constitutional law; legal history; international taxation; History of law and philosophy; Constitutional and private law; Early modern political thought; Slavery and political authority; Historical foundations of state power
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