Bachelor Student Prize Winner

Eighteen students completed their bachelor's degree in 2020 with a thesis that was labelled ‘excellent’ by their faculty. Here you will find a short introduction to these excellent theses in the form of an "elevator pitch" from each student, plus a video in which the supervisor briefly addresses the lucky winner.

Sarah Samuel 

  Faculty of Law | Bachelor Dutch Law 

"The realization of the punishment adjustment for infanticide, remarkable or logical?"

Sarah's elevator pitch
This thesis answers the question to what extent the changing general and legal reporting on the punishment of infanticide can be found in the legislative history and genesis of the law of 1854, which has resulted in a change in the punishment of a number of crimes including infanticide. With the introduction of this law, infanticide was punished with a disciplinary sentence between five and twenty years instead of the death penalty. To answer this question newspapers, judicial statistics, parliamentary documents and the legal periodical ‘Het Weekblad van het Regt’ from the period from 1809 to 1854 have been examined.