Management Board RENFORCE

Sybe de Vries (1970) is full professor of Public Economic Law and since 2012 the Jean Monnet Chair. His research and his education focuse on EU Single market law and the interconnection between EU free movement law and fundamental rights.

Michiel Luchtman is professor of Economic and European criminal law at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. He is one of the programme leaders of the master European criminal justice in a global context. His research and teaching focus on the consequences of Europeanisation for criminal justice and law enforcement in general; on criminal law and fundamental rights; on economic criminal law, as well as criminal tax law.Luchtman also (co-)supervises several PhD projects on these issues.

Alexandra Hofer is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 School of Law, Department of International and European Law. She received her PhD in international law from Ghent 木瓜福利影视 in September 2019 and remains a member of the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). 

Lisette Mustert is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Lisette conducts research at the intersection of EU and national administrative law. Her expertise lies particularly in the field of supervision and enforcement in the EU, composite administrative decision-making procedures, and the protection of fundamental rights such as the right to an effective judicial remedy. Her research interests also include questions of effectiveness and good administration in the supervision of the General Data Protection Regulation and enforcement of EU laws more generally. 

Dionysios Pelekis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at RENFORCE. His research focuses on State aid law and subsidy control, and on competition law more broadly. His doctoral thesis, undertaken at the 木瓜福利影视 of Edinburgh, focused on the evolution of the notion of fiscal aid, and the interaction between tax law and policy, and State aid law. Within State aid law, Dionysios has a particular interest in enviromental subsidies, aid to the banking sector, rescue & restructuring aid, and aid for research, development, and innovation. Dionysios has also been working and teaching for a number of years on competition law and new technologies, with a particular focus on how core concepts of the competition law apparatus have or can be affected by technological innovation. 

Margje obtained her LLM from the Legal Research Master cum laude from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and worked as a junior lecturer for the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 before starting her PhD. Her current research addresses the legal framework applicable to consumer misinformation on social media and what enforcement strategies are available to reduce consumer vulnerability. She is also interested in legal developments in the field of influencer marketing and has already conducted research into child and family influencers.

Support staff

Managing Coordinator of the department International and European Law, School of Law, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视

Student Assistants

  • Yulin van Duijn
  • Sasha Baker