Erin Jackson is Assistant Professor with the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology and researcher with the Montaigne Center for the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. She conducts empirical legal research on transnational judicial cooperation, judicial solidarity, legal consciousness and legal culture in the areas of rule of law, criminal justice and human rights. Her socio-legal PhD research defended at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 in 2024 examined judicial networks in Europe in the context of judicial cooperation across borders and developing solidarity in the face of rule of law backsliding as part of an NWO-Vidi project on judicial culture in Europe. She teaches in the criminal law bachelor and Master courses (specialization criminal law and criminology) as well as an elective in the Master European Criminal Justice.
Erin was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Empirical Legal Research at the 木瓜福利影视 of Groningen as part of a three-year NWO-funded project, CITIZENS-LAW, investigating perceptions of justice and rule of law. The comparative mixed-method research project examined rule of law consciousness in the Netherlands, Denmark and Hungary. Erin was Clinical Teaching Fellow of the Amsterdam Law Clinics at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam 2024-2025 and supervised and coordinated the Fair Trials Clinic, monitoring overseas criminal trials against human rights defenders and journalists, in partnership with the Clooney Foundation for Justice based in New York. Erin was Research Assistant on the Irish Research Council/Research Ireland Laureate Project 鈥楽ociet膩s: Exploring the Value of Freedom of Association鈥. She has been a visiting scholar at the 木瓜福利影视 College Cork and the 木瓜福利影视 of Edinburgh. Outside of her research, Erin has coordinated the gender equality stream of the Equality Law Network, which provides advice to the European Commission, together with the Human European Consultancy and the Migration Policy Group. She interned with the Hague Institute for Global Justice as part of the Global Governance program.
Erin is an editorial board member of the socio-legal journal Recht der Werkelijkheid, the journal of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Law (VSR). She previously fulfilled the roles of Executive Assistant and Managing Editor for the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. She presents her research nationally and internationally and has taught extensively in how to use qualitative methods in legal research through avenues such as the Groningen Empirical Legal Research Lab, the ELS Academy (Interview Techniques), the Legal Skills Academy and the Empirical Legal Research into Institutions for Conflict Resolution (ERI).