Mr. Hester van der Kaaij (junior researcher)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room B0.009
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)43 3883146
Fax: +31 (0)43 3884907
E-mail: hester.vanderkaaij@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Hester holds a degree in private law from Maastricht University (2011). During her study she worked for three years as a student-assistant at the department of Foundations and Methods of Law. She was on the board of her student association and was a member of the editorial board of the Dutch legal journal Ars Aequi. In January 2011 she started as a PhD researcher under the supervision of prof. dr. Hage. Her research aims to lay the foundations for a general theory of legal acts, which will be suitable for both public and private law. She means to achieve this goal by creating a conceptual analysis on the basis of the institutional theory of law, speech act theories and the Bentham and Hohfeld-inspired assumption that the world of the law can ultimately be described in terms of a relatively limited set of basis concepts. This analysis will then be used in a comparative study of nullities in private and administrative law.
Expertise
- Legal theory
- Legal philosophy
