Rate My Professor Michiel Luchtman

Michiel Luchtman is Professor of Economic and European Criminal Law at the Utrecht University School of Law, where he chairs the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. Born in 1975, he studied law at Utrecht University and earned his PhD cum laude in 2007 with the thesis 'Grenoverschrijdende sfeercumulatie'. He delivered his inaugural lecture on 2 June 2017. Prior to April 2023, his chair was designated as Transnational Law Enforcement and Fundamental Rights. Luchtman served as Director of Postgraduate Studies and a member of the Department of Law board from September 2019 to September 2022. From 2023 to September 2025, he was one of the programme directors of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). He leads the Master's programme European Criminal Justice in a Global Context and acts as the Dutch contact point for the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN). His teaching extends to post-academic courses for practitioners including defence lawyers, prosecutors, and judiciary.

Luchtman's research examines the impacts of Europeanisation on criminal justice and law enforcement, with emphasis on criminal law and fundamental rights, economic criminal law, and criminal tax law. Expertise areas include administrative criminal law, European criminal law, criminal procedure, human rights, and comparative criminal law. He has led projects funded by NWO VIDI and VENI grants, EU Hercule programmes, and co-founded the Jean Monnet Network on EU law enforcement (EULEN) with an Erasmus+ grant in 2019. Notable awards include the Siracusa Prize in 2009 for his book 'European cooperation between financial supervisory authorities, tax authorities and judicial authorities', NWO VIDI award in 2014, and VENI grant in 2008. Key publications encompass books such as 'Transnationale rechtshandhaving: Over fundamentele rechten in de Europese strafrechtelijke samenwerking' (2017), 'Choice of forum in cooperation against EU financial crime' (2013), and edited volumes like 'EU Enforcement Authorities: Punitive Law Enforcement in a Composite Legal Order' (2023) and 'Law Enforcement by EU Authorities: Implications for Political and Judicial Accountability' (2017). He contributes to editorial boards of Utrecht Law Review and Melai Internationaal, serves on NWO committees and others, supervises PhD candidates, and delivers frequent invited lectures on EU criminal justice topics across Europe.