Lieneke Slingenberg is Professor of Migrants and the Rule of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She studies the regulation of migrants' lives from the perspective of the rule of law. She studies how law is both a governmental instrument to shape migrants’ lives (‘rule by law’) and an important limit on governmental power (‘rule of law’). From February to June 2018 she was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). In 2018 she was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research project entitled 'Human Rights Law, Non-Domination and Spatial Restrictions for Refugees'. Since 1 January 2022 she has been appointed Professor of Migrants and the Rule of Law within the VU University Research Chair (URC) programme.
Lieneke is involved in (bachelor- and master) courses and supervision of PhD projects on migration law and human rights and offers on a regular basis training courses for professionals in the field of migration law. She was head of the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law from May 2015 until September 2021 and of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law from January 2016 until January 2018. Since January 2024 she has been vice dean of research in the faculty board.
