Jaap Wieland

Senior Attorney

Jaap specialises in general and economic administrative law.

Jaap advises and litigates for public authorities, developers, housing corporations and non-profit organisations (healthcare and educational institutions) on various administrative law aspects of area and project development and on general administrative law issues. He is also regularly engaged in cases at the intersection of public and private law.

Jaap has extensive experience in education housing, the redevelopment of healthcare real estate (College sanering zorginstellingen), cost recovery in area and real estate development, subsidies and specific benefits (WBI/SBI), government liability and the distribution of scarce public rights (permits and subsidies) and government real estate (the Didam judgment).

Jaap has registered the following area of law in the Register of Jurisdictions of the Netherlands Bar Association:

• Administrative law

This registration obliges him to earn ten training points each calendar year in each registered area of law according to the standards of the Netherlands Bar Association.

Jaap studied Dutch Law, International Law and Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam and as a legal advisor at a municipality. Before joining Stijl Advocaten, he worked as a lawyer at the Administrative Law Directorate of the Council of State. There he dealt with administrative financial law, government compensation, decentralised government law, electoral law and education law, among others. Between 2010 and 2019, Jaap was a member of the Hearing and Advisory Committee of the Province of North Holland.

Jaap completed the Grotius specialisation course in general administrative law (cum laude) in 2009. In 2017, he received his doctorate from Leiden University for the dissertation entitled: The protection of competition interests in administrative law. Jaap regularly publishes on administrative law issues, competition interests and the Didam judgment in professional legal journals, such as the Dutch Journal of Administrative Law (NTB) and Construction Law (BR). Jaap is also an annotator for the Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht (TBR) and a guest annotator for Administrative Law Decisions (AB). Jaap is co-author of the Practice Book on Intellectual Property Rights in Construction Law of the Institute for Construction Law. Finally, Jaap occasionally gives courses and lectures on administrative law topics and on the Didam judgment.

Jaap is a member of the Administrative Law Association (VAR) and the Construction Law Association (VBR).

Dutch, English.