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Prof. Dr. Jeanne Gaakeer, LL.M.

Legal scholar (Law and Humanities)Pic: Erasmus Law School
Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands,
Senior Justice in the criminal law section of the Appellate Court of The Hague, the Netherlands

Curriculum Vitae

Academic

  • M.A. English and American Literature, 1980, University of Utrecht
  • Pedagogical Training Certificate, 1981, University of Leyden
  • Ll.M., 1990, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • M.Phil., 1992, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Ph.D., 1995,  Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Endowed Professor of Jurisprudence: Law, Language and Literature, 2005, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Recipient of the James Boyd White Award, awarded by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH), 2013.
  • Full professor of Jurisprudence: Hermeneutical and Narrative Foundations, 2017, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Judicial

  • Deputy Judge in the Regional Court of Middelburg, 1998
  • Judge in the Regional Court of Middelburg, 2000
  • Justice in the Appellate Court, The Hague, 2008
  • Senior Justice in the Appellate Court, The Hague, 2016

Areas of Research and Teaching Interests

Jurisprudence; legal theory, legal methodology, legal philosophy; Law and Literature; Law and Humanities

Publications (selected, in English)

Edited collections

  • Human Law and Computer Law, Mireille Hildebrandt and Jeanne Gaakeer (eds), Springer, 2013.
  • Liminal Discourses of Law, Daniela Carpi and Jeanne Gaakeer (eds), Berlin, De Gruyter, 2013.
  • The Harmonies and Conflicts of Law, reason and Emotion: A Literary-Legal Approach, Carla Faralli, Jeanne Gaakeer, Marcelo Campos Galuppo, M.Paola Mittica, Ana Carolina de Faria Silvestre (eds), ISSL Papers, The Online Collection of the Italian Society for Law and Literature, www.lawandliterature.org, vol.8, 2016.

Articles

  • ‘Law, Language and Literature: Their Interrelations in Law and Literature’, in: Van Klink, B. and S. Taekema (eds),  Law and Method, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2011, pp.215-235.
  •  ‘The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man?’, in: Carpi, D. (ed.), Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 23-67.
  •  ‘Law and Literature: Batavische Gebroeders (1663), in: Bloemendal, J. and F.-W. Korsten (eds), Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age, Brill, Leyden, 2012, pp.459-487.
  • ‘European Law and Literature: Forever Young. The Nomad Concurs’, in: Porsdam,H. and Th. Elholm (eds), Dialogues on Justice: European Perspectives on Law and Humanities, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2012, pp.44-72.
  • ‘Configuring Justice’, No Foundations, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice,  9 (2012), pp.20-44.
  •  ‘Reverent Rites of Legal Theory: unity-diversity-interdisciplinarity’, 36 Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2012, pp.19-43.
  • ‘Iudex Translator: the reign of finitude’, in Monateri, P.-G. (ed.), Methods of Comparative Law,  Cheltenham UK and Northhampton USA, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp.252-269.
  •   ‘ “ On the Study Methods of Our Time” : Methodologies of Law and Literature in the Context of Interdisciplinary Studies’, in Gisler, P., S. Steinert Borella and C. Wiedmer, eds, Intersections of Law and Culture, Basingstoke UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2012, pp. 131-149.
  •  ‘”It’s my culture, stupid!”A Reflection on Law, Popular Culture and Interdisciplinarity’, in: Asimow, M., K. Brown, and D.R. Papke eds, Law and Popular Culture, International Perspectives, Newcastle on Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp.285-304.
  • ‘Law and Literature Redux: Some Remarks on the Importance of the Legal Imagination’, in G. Watt and J. Etxabe (eds), Living in a Law Transformed, Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White,  Ann Arbor, Maize Publishing, Michigan University Press, 2014, pp.13-36.
  • ‘Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature’, in: I.Ward (ed.), Law, Literature and Human Rights, the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015, pp.309-328.
  •  ‘Futures of Law and Literature: a Jurist’s Perspective’, in: Christian Hiebaum, Susanne Knaller, Doris Pichler (eds), Recht und Literatur im Zwischenraum/ Law and Literature In-Between, aktuelle inter-und transdisciplinäre Zugänge/contemporary inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2015, pp.71-103.
  • ‘Practical Wisdom and Judicial Practice: Who’s in Narrative Control?, in: Carla Faralli, Jeanne Gaakeer, Marcelo Campos Galuppo, M.Paola Mittica, Ana Carolina de Faria Silvestre (eds), The Harmonies and Conflicts of Law, reason and Emotion: A Literary-Legal Approach, ISSL Papers, The Online Collection of the Italian Society for Law and Literature, www.lawandliterature.org, vol.8, 2015, pp.1-17, ISSN 2035-553X.
  • ‘Close Encounters of the “ Third”  Kind’ , in Carpi, D. and K. Stierstorfer (eds.), Diaspora, Law and Literature, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 41-67.
  • ‘ “Sua Cuique Persona?” A Note on the Fiction of Legal Personhood and a Reflection on Interdisciplinary Consequences’, Law & Literature, vol. 28 , nr. 3, 2016, pp. 287-317.
  • ‘The judge’s perplexity is the scholar’s opportunity’, German Law Journal, vol. 18 no. 2, 2017, pp. 332-362.