Dr. Jill Coster
van Voorhout
Jill Coster van Voorhout is a lawyer and social scientist with a PhD in law. She conducts research and teaches on how to use empirical research methods to solve legal problems and, vice versa, how to use legal research methods to solve societal problems. For example, she is the principal investigator and project director of the NWO-funded research project COMCRIM, a public-private partnership that seeks to fundamentally understand crimes that corrode democracy and the rule of law in and via the Netherlands. With its focus on people (human trafficking), money (money laundering) and infrastructure/the interwovenness of the under- and upperworld (corruption), COMCRIM examines the systemic aspects of such crime in a team of 12 scholars, 3 banks, 3 partners in the intelligence and criminal justice chain, 3 NGOs, 3 ministries, 3 network organizations, 2 applied research organizations, the national rapporteur and norm-setting organization NEN (for more information: COMCRIM, under budget range 2-5 million).
She is also the Academic Director of UvA’s master’s programme in International Criminal Law (LLM), with its two tracks. Track 1 is the International Criminal Law – Joint Programme, with a first semester at UvA and a second semester at a partner organization, Columbia Law School, New York, United States of America. Track 2 is the International and Transnational Criminal Law Track, which is a full academic year at UvA.
Jill is also a Research fellow at the Amsterdam Center on International Law (ACIL), at the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice (ACCJ), and at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and an expert for Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC).