mr. Cheyenne Dunk

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, Legal Theory and Legal History

PhD Candidate, Kooijmans Institute

PhD Candidate, Research Programmes - Law, Boundaries of Law

Personal information

Cheyenne Dunk is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the department of Legal Theory and Legal History of the Faculty of Law (VU), collaborating with Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving (NSCR).

In 2022, she completed her master’s in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (LLM) at Leiden University. While studying, she worked for organizations such as LANGZS, NSCR, and Leiden University. After graduation, she joined the department of Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and later began working at VU.

Research

Cheyenne’s doctoral research investigates the compensation order in Dutch criminal law (schadevergoedingsmaatregel). She aims to empirically and philosophically explore whether this order serves as a reparatory or punitive sanction by studying the perceptions and experiences of victims, perpetrators, and the general public.

Her doctoral research is part of the larger project "Compensation as punishment. A multidisciplinary inquiry into how the compensation order transforms traditional ideas of punishment, redress and criminal procedure". This project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

For more information, see NWO-beurs voor onderzoeksproject schadevergoedingsmaatregel.

Teaching

Cheyenne taught Pleitoefening (B3), Inleiding in de Rechtswetenschap (B1), and Encyclopedie der Rechtswetenschap II (B3), and currently teaches Recht & Praktijk (B3).

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