Louis Middelkoop is an external PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focusses on democratic control over contemporary Justice, Migration and Home Affairs policy in Europe. His research is supervised by prof. Thomas Spijkerboer (migration law) and prof. Ben Crum (political science).
Louis works as a policy advisor in the Dutch House of Representatives. He works mostly on EU asylum and migration law. He also advises on EU justice and international security affairs, constitutional affairs and international development.
Louis holds a LLM in international criminal law from University of Amsterdam/Columbia Law School (cum laude), a MSc in international crimes and criminology (cum laude) and a LLB(honours), both from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
