Nik de Boer is Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Law School and member of the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review. His current research focuses on democratic backsliding and democratic questions about the legal architecture of the financial system, central banks in particular. His earlier research primarily concerned the role of constitutional courts in the EU. His monograph Judging European Democracy was recently published by Oxford University Press and offers a systematic analysis of how we should assess the democratic legitimacy of the national constitutional courts’ review of European law.
Nik is the project leader of the multidisciplinary project Safeguarding the normative foundations of democracy and founding board member of the UvA platform for Democratic Resilience (DEMRES).
Nik obtained his PhD (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam in 2018. His doctoral thesis 'Judging European Democracy' was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law. Nik has held visiting positions at the European Court of Justice, Harvard Law School and the Center for Global Constitutionalism WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre. Previously he was a postdoctoral reseacher at the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Private Law of the Amsterdam Law School, where he taught financial law and was the academic coordinator of the Master in Law and Finance, as well as of the Faculty's PhD programme.