Professor Jaap E Doek
Professor Jaap E. Doek (1942) is a Law professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (Family and Juvenile Law). He was the Dean of the Law Faculty at the Vrije Universiteit between 1988 and 1992. He is currently a Deputy Justice in the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam and he has been a juvenile court judge in the district court of Alkmaar and the Hague from 1978 to 1985. Professor Jaap was the former Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, having served between May 2001 and 2007. Professor Jaap is the founding member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and board member between 1976 – 1992 (President 1982 – 1984 and Vice President for developing countries 1984 – 1992). He was also involved in the creation of Defence for Children International (DCI; 1979) and the Dutch Section of this organisation (1984). He has been a member of an ISPCAN/DCI working group on Child Labour which conducted a large study on Child Labour (1994-1997). Professor Jaap was also a member of the Board of the International Association of Juvenile and Family Court Magistrates 1982-1986). In 1993, Professor Jaap was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law School in Washington DC (February – July) and at the Michigan University School of Law in Ann Arbor (September – December). In the Spring of 1999 (January – May), he was a visiting professor at the North Western University School of law in Chicago. In 1999 – 2000, he was the president of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA). Professor Jaap has published numerous books and articles on various topics in the area of children’s rights and family law in national (Dutch) and international (English) journals.
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