Rate My Professor Johan Wolswinkel

Johan Wolswinkel is Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School, Department of Public Law & Governance, Tilburg University, appointed in November 2018 to the chair of Administrative Law, Market and Data. This position enables him to examine the role of administrative law amid market-driven and data-driven transformations in public administration. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg University from 2015 to 2018. Wolswinkel studied Law and Mathematics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and obtained his PhD cum laude there in 2013. His doctoral thesis, "De verdeling van schaarse publiekrechtelijke rechten. Op zoek naar algemene regels van verdelingsrecht" (The Allocation of Scarce Public Law Rights: In Search of General Rules of Allocation Law), addressed competitive decision-making for limited-issued rights including licences, concessions, contracts, and subsidies. The thesis earned the VAR prize in 2017 as the best administrative law publication from 2013 to 2016.

Wolswinkel's research interests encompass the regulation of administrative single-case decision-making and transparency requirements, the influence of EU law on administrative and economic law domains, and the interplay between administrative law and digitalization, such as automated decision-making, algorithmic transparency, and open government data. He is principal investigator of the CITaDOG project (Case-Inclusive Transparency for a Digital and Open Government), supported by an NWO Vidi grant and Tilburg University ICON grant awarded in June 2023, which analyzes the effects of disclosing individual administrative decisions to enhance citizen oversight. Key publications include his inaugural lecture "Willekeur of algoritme? Laveren tussen analoog en digitaal bestuur" (Arbitrariness or Algorithm? Navigating Between Analog and Digital Administrative Law, 2020), "The Dutch Open Government Act: Bridging Old and New Open Government?" (2023), "New Public Law in Response to New Public Analytics" (2023), and forthcoming "Balancing Public Interests Through Limitation, Allocation and Execution of Limited Rights" (2025). He holds roles as deputy judge at the Rotterdam administrative court since 2017, chair of the NWO internal appeals committee since 2018, research partner of the Netherlands Gambling Authority, and editorial board member of the Dutch Journal for Administrative Law since 2024, among others.