Carel Jan Jozef Marie Stolker (23 June 1954) is a Dutch academic administrator and the former

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from February 2013 to February 2021. He was the successor of Paul F. van der Heijden.Carel Stolker to succeed Paul van der Heijden as Rector Magnificus
(News Leiden University, July 2012) Stolker is a professor of

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and former dean of the Leiden University Law School (2005–2011).

Biography

Stolker finished high school at Bonaventura College in

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. After completing his military service, he studied law at

. His Ph.D. Thesis (1988) was a juridical dissertation about liability for unsuccessful sterilization. In his book ''Van arts naar advocaat'' (1989) Stolker looked at the medical liability crisis in the United States in comparison to the Dutch situation.Website Carel Stolker
accessed 8 Sept. 2012

Research and education

In 1991 Stolker taught Comparative Tort Law at the

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, Hastings School of Law. In 1996 he became director of the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies at

and in 2001 became a member of the executive board of the law school, in charge of research. He published regularly on issues relating to liability law. From 2005 to 2011 Stolker was dean of the Faculty of Law of Leiden University. In that capacity he straightened out a long lasting dispute between former criminologist Wouter Buikhuisen and Leiden University. In 2012, a one-year sabbatical was devoted to the writing of a book about law schools – a comparative analysis of legal education, legal scholarship, and the different approaches of law schools worldwide.

Professional life

In 1992 and 1993 he contributed, as a member of the Task Force Albania of the Council of Europe, to the development of a civil code for

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. He was a member of the Air Freight Documentation Committee (the so-called Hoekstra Committee), that conducted an investigation into the cargo of the El-Al aircraft which crashed into the Amsterdam Bijlmer district. He is a deputy judge at the Court of

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and a deputy justice at the Court of Appeal in

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Publications in English (selection)

* Carel Stolker: ''Rethinking the law school. Education, research, outreach and governance''. Cambridge University Press, 2014. * C.J.J.M. Stolker: Legal Journals: In pursuit of a more scientific approach. In: ''European Journal of Legal Education'', 2(2), pp. 77-94 (2005) * H.D. Ploeger & C.J.J.M. Stolker: In search of the importance of Article 1 Protocol No. 1 ECHR to private law. In: ''The right to property. The influence of Article 1 Protocol no. 1 ECHR on several fields of domestic law.'' (2000) * Carel J.J.M. Stolker and David I. Levine: Aviation products liability for manufacturing and design defects. In: ''The utilization of the world's air space and free outer space in the 21st century'' (2000) * Carel Stolker and David Levine: Compensation for damage to parties on the ground as a result of aviation accidents. In: ''Air & space law'', 1997, vol. 22, nr. 2, pp. 60-60 * Carel J.J.M. Stolker: Wrongful life. The limits of liability and beyond. In: ''The International and Comparative Law Quarterly'', 1994, p. 521 - 536 * Carel J.J.M. Stolker: The unconscious plaintiff. Consciousness as a prerequisite for compensation for non-pecuniary loss. In: ''The international and comparative law quarterly'', vol. 39 (1990), nr 1 (Jan), p. 82 In Dutch: * Carel Stolker: ''Aansprakelijkheid van de arts in het bijzonder voor mislukte sterilisaties''. (Dissertation Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1988).

References

External links

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