Anoeska Buijze appointed as professor of Administrative Law

Anoeska Buijze

As of 1 November 2022, Anoeska Buijze has been appointed full professor of National and European Administrative Law at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. She was already an assistant professor and  energy research coordinator at Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL).


Anoeska Buijze studied in the Legal Research Master's programma and obtained her PhD cum laude at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Her research focuses on the interaction between law and different fields of science.

In her new role as professor, she will focus more on administrative law in the broader sense. The focus of her research will shift from environmental law, water law and energy transition to general administrative law.
Administrative law is actually very interesting for anyone who is going to study law. So much happens where there are administrative law aspects. Think, for example, of the childcare allowance affair or whether or not energy allowance is granted. Anoeska Buijze recently wrote an opinion piece in  Dutch newspaper . It was prompted by Eneco's announcement to significantly reduce the energy feed-in tariff. And on the website of programme Radar, she explained why the government's defence of excluding students from energy surcharge is likely to fail in court.

As a new professor, Buijze also hopes to give a new impetus to the master's in constitutional and administrative law. She would like to link the subject much more to developments in society. As an example, she mentions the current crisis in administrative law because of the efficiency drive and the government's excessive ambition to want everything at once. This should receive more attention in the master's programme.

Prof. Buijze is involved in several transdisicplinary collaborations, including the project Nexusing Water, Energy and Food to Increase Resilience in the Cape Town Metropolitan Region by/funded by the South African National Research Foundation and NWO. This project examines how increasingly scarce resources can be better utilised, and the role of law in managing these resources.