Philip Langbroek is emeritus professor of  justice and court administration at the Montaigne Centre of Utrecht School of Law. He graduated in political science (Staatkunde) in 1982 at Leiden University, and wrote a dissertation (PhD) at the Faculty of Public Administration, of Twente University, the Netherlands 1984-1988. From 1989 onwards he worked as a lecturer and senior researcher/senior lecturer in Public Law at the Department of Law, faculty REBO, Utrecht University, and taught Dutch Administrative Law, Constitutional Law. Legislative Drafting and Methodology of Legal Research. As may be seen from the lists of publications below he is fascinated by the actual constitutional, administrative and juridical  functioning of state organisations and inventions in that context, like quality management and New Public Management, with a focus on the Judiciary (and Ombudsman institutions), but with a long history in modern Dutch Administrative law and especially administrative procedure. He has directed many international research projects, and  has published widely on justice and court administration and administrative law. During the past few years, Langbroek participated in court and justice improvement projects in Ukraine and Greece.