mr.dr. (Nina) NL Holvast

Biography

Nina Holvast is an interdisciplinairy researcher, who uses multi-method research methods to study the Law in Action. Her research focusses on courts, judicial decision-making and the legal profession. Holvast has an educational background in law and social science: she obtained an LLM in Criminal Law (cum laude) and a MSc in Criminology (cum laude) at Leiden University. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam. Her dissertation (Eleven International Publishers) explored the role of judicial assistants in judicial decision-making. Prior to her PhD she worked at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice and Security and was a part-time law clerk at the District Court in The Hague. Her current research concentrates on the functioning of the judicial institutions, the effect of extra-legal factors in judicial decision-making and legal socialisation in law school. Holvast is regularly asked as an expert in empirical legal research methods during seminars and in supervisory committees.

Holvast has been an editor of Recht der Werkelijkheid (the journal of Dutch-Flemish Law and Society Association) and is currently a member of the editorial board of Erasmus Law Review. She was an academic visitor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and the Judicial Institute of University College London.

Erasmus School of Law

Associate professor | Sociology of Law
Email
holvast@law.eur.nl

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Work

  • WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & Alma Besic (2022) - Legal socialization in law school: the effects of two types of professional identity formation
  • WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & Alma Besic (2022) - Legal socialisation in law school: Two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity
  • Nina Holvast (2021) - Out of the shadow: professional standards for Dutch judicial assistants
  • NL (Nina) Holvast (2021) - Transforming into a lawyer at ESL: bridging the identity gap via the tutor
  • Nina Holvast (2021) - Researching a hidden actor: the role and influence of judicial assistants in Dutch courts
  • Nina Holvast & JMW Lindeman (2020) - The Blurring Boundaries between Professionals and Paraprofessionals in Dutch Courts and the Public Prosecution Service
  • A Sanders & Nina Holvast (2020) - International Journal For Court Administration (Journal)
  • WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven, NL (Nina) Holvast & NT (Tobias) Arnoldussen (2019) - Recht, realiteit, risico en rationaliteit
  • Nina Holvast (2019) - Erasmus Law Review (Journal)
  • Nina Holvast (2018) - In de schaduw van de rechter, workshop over de positie van juridisch medewerkers en het creëren van professionele standaarden

  • WJ (Willem-Jan) Kortleven & NL (Nina) Holvast (2021) - CLI Fellowship 'Voorbij het deficitdenken: naar inclusiever onderwijs en diversiteitsbeleid aan Erasmus School of Law'

Stichting Juridische Samenwerking aan de Maas

Start date approval
februari 2019
End date approval
december 9999
Place
ROTTERDAM

Communicate your Research

Year
2024
Course Code
EGSL-CR

Research Design 1

Year
2024
Course Code
EGSL-RD1

Research Design 2

Year
2024
Course Code
EGSL-RD2

Law in Action

Level
overig
Year Level
overig
Year
2024
Course Code
RMIN18

Empirical Legal Studies

Year Level
bachelor 1, bachelor 1
Year
2024
Course Code
RD118

Empirical Legal Studies

Year Level
bachelor 1, bachelor 1
Year
2024
Course Code
RR118

Thesis master Legal Theory

Year
2024
Course Code
RS128

Academic Integrity & Responsible Researc

Year
2024
Course Code
EGSL-AR

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Beyond deficit thinking: towards more inclusive education and diversity policy at Erasmus School of Law

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