Newly appointed professor Betty de Hart joins ACELG
Betty de Hart has been appointed Professor of Migration Law at the University of Amsterdam. As of 1 February 2013, the newly appointed professor will carry out her research under the auspices of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance.
In her research, Betty de Hart focusses on European and international migration law, e.g. immigration law, citizenship law and international private law. She internationally conducts comparative, empirical and historical research on these fields of law and is particularly interested in the legal regulation of transnational families.
Some of her publications include: “A proper wife, a proper marriage: Constructions of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Dutch family migration policy”, European Journal of Women’s Studies 2013, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 61-76. “Love Thy Neighbour. Family Reunification and the Rights of Insiders”, European Journal of Migration and Law (2009), vol. 11, no. 3, p. 235-252. In 2012, she published Een tweede pas. Dubbele nationaliteit in de Verenigde Staten, Duitsland en Nederland (in Dutch, Amsterdam University Press, 2012).
In 2007 she obtained a VIDI-research grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the research project ‘Transnational Families between Dutch and Islamic Family Law. A Study on Transnational Legal Space’.
Betty de Hart obtained her PhD degree in 2003 on the topic of mixed couples in nationality law and immigration law (Onbezonnen vrouwen. Gemengde relaties in het nationaliteitsrecht en het vreemdelingenrecht, Aksant: Amsterdam 2003). She participated in various international research projects, on the topics of dual citizenship, citizenship law in the 15 ‘old’ EU-Member States (NATAC), and family reunification policy. De Hart is Associate Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen, at the Centre for Migration Law and Institute for Sociology of Law. She is a Member of the Advice Council of the Centrum Internationale Kinderontvoering (Centre International Parental Child Abduction) and a member of the Board of the Netherlands Organisation of Socio-Legal Research (VSR).