Leo Damen

Of Counsel

Leo specialises in general administrative law.

Leo is emeritus professor of administrative law at the University of Groningen. As of counsel, he advises Stijl Advocaten’s lawyers on a variety of administrative law issues. Leo also chairs the periodic administrative law lunch.

Leo studied law in Utrecht and Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate in Groningen with Prof. M. Scheltema on the thesis ‘Unregulated and opaque administration’.

Leo has more than earned his spurs in administrative law. Among other things, he was a professor of administrative law at the University of Groningen, a full-time councillor at the Administrative High Court and dean of the Faculty of Law in Groningen. Leo is editor of the jurisprudence journal AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht.

Leo publishes frequently in leading administrative law journals, such as NTB, JBPlus and Ars Aequi, and in academic collections, on the general part of administrative law, and in particular the position of citizens in administrative law. See further his more than 600 annotations in the AB and Ars A equi . In 2018, Leo published the preliminary opinion ‘Is the citizen triple A: alert, suspicious, assertive, or does he get lost in translation?’, in: Trust in Government, VAR series 160, The Hague: BJu 2018, pp. 7-103. For this and for a series of other publications, he received the VAR-Michiel Scheltema Prize in 2019.

Finally, Leo is editor and author of several administrative law textbooks. These are continued in Bröring et al and Marseille et al, Bestuursrecht 1 en 2, The Hague: BJu 2022.