Experts & Expertise

• Church state relations
• Comparative law
• Fundamental rights
• Municipal law
• Rule of law

Leiden University, The Netherlands

· PhD (Law) (2010) Thesis Topic: Judicial review of legislation: Constitutionalism personified in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and South Africa (also published, see bibliography)

University of Antwerp, Belgium

· PhD (Law) (2005) Thesis Topic: The likeness of a democratic society. A comparative study of the limitation of fundamental rights and freedoms in accordance with the European Convention and the Constitution of South Africa (also published, see bibliography)

· Certificate PhD Study Programme (2002-2005)

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa

· LLM (Constitutional Law) cum laude (2001) Thesis Topic: The right to freedom of religion in South Africa

· Certificate in Legal Education (2001)

· LLB cum laude (1999-2000)

· BA (Law) cum laude (1996-1998)

Gerhard van der Schyff is a lecturer in the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Tilburg University.

Before coming to Tilburg in 2005 he conducted doctoral research at Antwerp University in Belgium, which culminated in his PhD in that year. He was also a trainee academic at the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa (now University of Johannesburg) in 2001 in terms of an LLM bursary.

Van der Schyff further has experience as a scientific collaborator in the Inter-university Centre for Education Law in Flanders, as well as the European Association for Education Law and Policy.

Gerhard van der Schyff was engaged in a Veni research project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The project was entitled "Characterising the Scope of Judicial Review: Constitutionalism personified in the Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom" and culminated in his second doctorate which was published by springer in 2010. At present he forms part of a research programme into constitutional dialogue.

Gerhard van der Schyff maintains regular contact with academics at universities in Belgium and South Africa. 2007 saw him conducting a lecture tour of a number of South African universities where he exchanged ideas with local academics and presented his research in the following lectures:

Can the differences between the Netherlands and South Africa in respect of human rights protection be justified?, presented on 10 May 2007 to the College of Law, University of South Africa, Pretoria

Editorships

Member Editorial Council, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Kerk en Recht, since 2010

Editor, European Constitutional Law Review, since 2009

Editor, International Journal for Education Law and Policy, since 2006

Past editor, Tilburg Law Review, 2005-2009

Peer reviewer on occasion for

Coutinho Publishers, South African Journal on Human Rights, SA Public Law, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Wolf Legal Publishers

Gerhard van der Schyff has delivered papers at a number of national and international conferences. He is part of the organisation committee of the Dutch Constitutional Law Conference that will be held in Tilburg in December 2010.

G. van der Schyff teaches the following subjects:

• Comparative Constitutional Law (600340) Further information
• Fundamental Rights (660092) Further information
• Constitutional Law (660102) Further information

Research Visits

Interviews

Gerhard van der Schyff has been interviewed for a number of publications, including Binnenlands Bestuur, SCOnline  and the NederBelgisch Magazine.

Translation Work

Assisted, inter alia, with the translation of JBM Vranken, Exploring the Jurist?s Frame of Mind (Kluwer, 2006)

Law Faculty Dissertation Prize Committee

Member in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010

Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

International Association for Constitutional Law

Gesellschaft für afrikansiches Recht

Vereniging voor Vernieuwingsimpuls Onderzoekers