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Iris Van Domselaar

Fernand Braudel Fellow

Department of Law

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Iris Van Domselaar

Fernand Braudel Fellow

Department of Law

Biography

Iris van Domselaar holds a chair in Legal Philosophy and Legal Ethics at the Amsterdam Law School and is founding director of the Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access to Justice. She is director of the Professional Ethics Programme at the Amsterdam Law School, a bachelor’s and master’s programme that is committed to the pedagogy of experiential learning in legal ethics education. Van Domselaar is also editor-in-chief of the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy.

Her research focuses on how to account for ethical quality in legal practice. Drawing on neo-Aristotelian and neo-Wittgensteinian strands within practical and legal philosophy and on social empirical research, Van Domselaar seeks to come to grips with ethics as ‘lived experience’ on the part of legal professionals and of citizens who are involved in legal procedures. She has published extensively on topics such as tragic dilemmas in legal practice, judicial virtues, the ethics of corporate lawyering, courage of legal professionals, and moral perception in legal practice. Van Domselaar is a member of the interdisciplinary consortium The Algorithmic Society, where she focuses on digitisation in the justice sector and the implications for the ethics of legal professionals.

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