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Oswald Jansen Adjunct Professor WCL Faculty

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Oswald Jansen
WCL | General Academics & Research
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Degrees
LL.M., University of Nijmegen
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam

Bio

Dr. Oswald  Jansen is an attorney and strategic legal consultant at Resolución in The Hague. He is specialized  in Comparative, European and Global administrative law, regulation and law enforcement. He is adjunct professor at the American University Washington  College of Law and fellow of the Program on Law and Government. At AUWCL he  taught Comparative Public Law at the Law & Government's annual Summer Institute.



Previously, he was Professor of European Administrative Law and Public  Administration at Maastricht University, senior lecturer Comparative and Global  Administrative Law at Tilburg University, senior-lecturer Administrative Law at Utrecht University, and lawyer (advocaat)  in the Netherlands. Recently he also taught administrative law at the Erasmus  University of Rotterdam.



Oswald has  taught European (administrative) law, Comparative Administrative Law and  Administrative Law Enforcement in China. Europe as well as Latin America.


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He has  (co-)edited books such as Administrative Sanctions in the European Union  (Antwerp, Intersentia 2013), The European Composite Administration (Antwerp,  Intersentia 2011), Defence Rights During Administrative Investigations against  EU Fraud in England & Wales, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania,  Sweden and Switzerland (Antwerp, Intersentia 2007), Multilevel Governance in  Enforcement and Adjudication (Antwerp: Intersentia 2006), Competition Law  Sanctioning in the European Union (Kluwer Law International 2004). His  inaugural speech as a professor in Maastricht was entitled “Administrative Law and its Territory”. He defended his PhD at Amsterdam University in 1999..


 

Oswald  Jansen has published several contributions on subjects such as (Global or)  International Administrative Law (in Dutch and English), Comparative  Administrative Law (in Dutch, English and French), Comparative Public  Administration (in Dutch, English and French), and Defense Rights (in English),  Administrative Sanctions and Law Enforcement (in Dutch, English, French, Spanish  and Italian) and mutual assistance in administrative matters in the European Union  (in Dutch, English and French).

See Also
Inaugural speech Maastricht University
Resolución
Publications
BIO AUWCL
Areas of Specialization
Administrative Law
International/Comparative Law
Law and Government
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