Niels Graaf is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance at Utrecht University, based at the section of legal theory. With a background in public law and history, he explores judicial role perceptions hidden in scholarly uses of foreign law. His focus is on legal academic journals addressing a national readership on issues of EU (constitutional) law in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands across the 1990s and 2000s. 

 

Prior to his arrival at Utrecht University, Niels Graaf was affiliated with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome and has taught at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He earned his LL.B. and LL.M. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, and a B.A. and a research M.A. in history from the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam.

His research interests include the history and theory of legal thought, judicial and legal culture(s), comparative law, knowledge transfer and the history of humanities and science.