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
- holvast@law.eur.nl
- Room
- L5-113
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Nina Holvast (2023) - Het belang van onderzoek naar de betrokkenheid en invloed van juridische ondersteuning - Rechtstreeks, 2023 (2), 49-54 - [link]
- Peter Mascini & Nina Holvast (2023) - Does delegation of drafting duties to law clerks result in judgments that show lack of confidence in terms of writing style?: A stylometric analysis. - Journal of Law and Courts, 1-22 - doi: 10.1017/jlc.2023.10
- Nina Holvast, Joost Jansen, Robby Roks & Joost Nan (2023) - Hét geweld tegen dé journalist bestaat niet - Sociale vraagstukken - [link]
- Joep Lindeman & Nina Holvast (2023) - New Public Management in the Dutch criminal justice chain: The effects of stratification and automation in out-of-court proceedings - [link]
- Nina Holvast, Joost Jansen, Robby Roks & Joost Nan (2023) - Beelden van geweld: Een mixed-methods onderzoek naar geweld en agressie tegen journalisten - [link]
- Joost Nan, Nina Holvast & Sjarai Lestrade (2023) - Compensation for a wrongful conviction in the Netherlands - doi: 10.4324/9781003229414-6
- Hilary Sommerlad, Jeanne Hersant , Nina Holvast, Luca Verzelloni, Stefanie Gustafsson, Rebecca Sandefur & Tom Clarke (2022) - Paralegals and the Casualisation of Legal Labour Markets - doi: 10.5040/9781509931248.ch-012
- Nina Holvast & Giel Stoepker (2022) - Professionele standaarden voor juridisch medewerkers: een belangrijke stap in het professionaliseren van de rechtspraak - Nederlands Juristenblad (NJB), 7 (406), 480-486 - [link]
- Nina Holvast & JMW Lindeman (2021) - An Inquiry into the Blurring Boundaries between Professionals and Paraprofessionals in Dutch Courts and the Public Prosecution Service - International Journal of Law in Context, 16 (4), 371-389 - doi: 10.1017/s1744552320000270 - [link]
- Nina Holvast & Willem-Jan Kortleven (2021) - De transformatie tot jurist: socialisatie en diversiteit in de rechtenstudie - Ars Aequi, 2021 (1), 74-79 - [link]
- 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
Law in Action
- Level
- overig
- Year Level
- overig
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RMIN18
Empirical Legal Studies
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RD118
Academic Integrity & Responsible Researc
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- EGSL-AR
Communicate your Research
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- EGSL-CR
Research Design 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- EGSL-RD1
Research Design 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- EGSL-RD2
Empirical Legal Studies
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RR118
Thesis master Legal Theory
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RS128