Rate My Professor Marc Hertogh

Marc Hertogh is Full Professor of Law and Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. Born in 1968, he studied law at Leiden University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, earning his PhD from Leiden in 1997. Before joining Groningen in 2005, he served as postdoc, university lecturer, and university reader at Tilburg University. He holds a concurrent appointment as Distinguished Professor of Social and Institutional Dimensions of the Rule of Law at Utrecht University and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the University of California, Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. Hertogh advises Dutch government bodies including the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of the Interior, National Ombudsman, and Public Prosecution Service, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Dutch Council for the Judiciary. He was Deputy Chair of the Dutch State Commission on the Rule of Law and led an investigative committee on the independence of the WODC in 2019.

His research specializes in empirical legal studies, legal consciousness, administrative justice, ombudsman institutions, public opinion on law, legal pluralism, and citizen perspectives on the rule of law. As Principal Investigator of the NWO-funded CITIZENS-LAW project, he explores EU citizens' perceptions of law to bolster the rule of law. Hertogh is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law in Context (Cambridge University Press), Chair of the Editorial Board of the Dutch Law & Society Review, and Law & Society Correspondent for the Dutch Lawyers' Journal. Notable publications include The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice (Oxford University Press, 2022), Nobody's Law: Legal Consciousness and Legal Alienation in Everyday Life (Palgrave, 2018), Research Handbook on the Ombudsman (Edward Elgar, 2018), Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich (Hart, 2009), and Judicial Review and Bureaucratic Impact: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His articles appear in journals such as Law & Society Review, Journal of Law and Society, and Social & Legal Studies, influencing scholarship on compliance, governance, and legal effectiveness.