Tom Huisjes is assistant professor in social law at the law department of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.
His PhD focused on social and inclusive commissioning, i.e. the integration of social objectives concerning non-discrimination, diversity and inclusion into public procurement policy. The research dealt with both a ‘repressive approach’, which entails that economic actors that discriminate on the labour market are excluded from public procurement procedures, and a ‘positive approach’ that promotes diversity and inclusion through the use of labels, award criteria and special conditions relating to the performance of a contract.