Bomhoff, Jacco


Dr Jacco Bomhoff  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Lecturer in Law

Experience keywords:

comparative constitutional law; conflict of laws; 20th-century history of legal thought

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Jacco's research interests lie mainly in the fields of conflict of laws, comparative constitutional law and 20th century history of legal thought. He is currently particularly interested in two projects that lie at intersections of these areas: (1) a comparative study of local understandings and implications of legal formality in different societal and legal domains, and (2) the role of fundamental rights in cases that transcend the boundaries of individual political communities.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Languages:

Dutch [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6221

Publications

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2012

Bomhoff, Jacco (2012) Perfectionism in European law. In: Barnard, Catherine and Gehring, Markus and Solanke, Iyiola, (eds.) Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, vol. 14, 2011-2012. Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 75-100. ISBN 9781849463539

Adams, Maurice and Bomhoff, Jacco, (eds.) (2012) Practice and theory in comparative law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107010857

Bomhoff, Jacco (2012) Comparing legal argument. In: Adams, Maurice and Bomhoff, Jacco, (eds.) Practice and theory in comparative law. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK, pp. 74-96. ISBN 9781107010857

2011

Bomhoff, Jacco and Meuwese, Anne (2011) The meta-regulation of transnational private regulation. Journal of law and society, 38 (1). pp. 138-162. ISSN 0263-323X

2010

Bomhoff, Jacco (2010) Genealogies of balancing as discourse. Law & ethics of human rights, 4 (1). ISSN 1938-2545

2009

Huls, Nick and Adams, Maurice and Bomhoff, Jacco, (eds.) (2009) The legitimacy of highest courts’ rulings: judicial deliberations and beyond. TMC Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789067042895

Bomhoff, Jacco (2009) Comparing judicial reasoning on a formalism/policy axis: problematizing and contextualizing ‘formalism’ in Mitchel Lasser’s "Judicial Deliberations". In: Huls, Nick and Adams, Maurice and Bomhoff, Jacco, (eds.) The legitimacy of highest courts’ rulings: judicial deliberations and beyond. TMC Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 77-90. ISBN 9789067042895

2008

Bomhoff, Jacco (2008) Balancing, the global and the local: judicial balancing as a problematic topic in comparative (constitutional) law. Hastings international & comparative law review, 31 (2). ISSN 0149-9246

Bomhoff, Jacco (2008) "The rights and freedoms of others": the ECHR and its peculiar category of conflicts between fundamental rights. In: Brems, Eva, (ed.) Conflicts between fundamental rights. Intersentia, Antwerp, Belgium; Oxford, UK, pp. 619-654. ISBN 9789050957793

Bomhoff, Jacco (2008) Lüth's 50th anniversary: some comparative observations on the German foundations of judicial balancing. German law journal, 9 (2). ISSN 2071-8322

Bomhoff, Jacco (2008) The reach of rights: "the foreign" and "the private" in conflict-of-laws, state-action, and fundamental-rights cases with foreign elements. Law and contemporary problems, 71 (3). pp. 39-71. ISSN 0023-9186

2005

Bomhoff, Jacco (2005) Judicial discretion in European law on conflicts of jurisdiction. Sdu Uitgevers, The Hague, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789054094920

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Jacco Bomhoff studied law at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and at the University of Oxford, on a Dutch National Science Foundation Talent Scholarship. He also completed a program in political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, France. Before coming to the LSE in 2008, he taught at Leiden University's Faculty of Law. In 2005 he received an Allen & Overy research scholarship for a study on European conflicts of jurisdiction law. In 2006 he spent a semester as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California – Hastings College of the Law.

 

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