Frank van Ommeren

(Nederlands)

Prof. Dr. F.J. van Ommeren (Frank)

• Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Director of the research programme ‘Public Contracts: Law and Governance’ of the VU Centre for Law and Governance (VU CLG)

• Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law (part-time from 2002; fulltime since 2008)
• Senior Legal Counsel at the Department of Legislation at the Dutch Ministry of Justice (1999 – 2007)
• Researcher and lecturer at the departments of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the VU University Amsterdam (1989 – 1994), University of Utrecht (1994 – 1997) and Tilburg University (1997 – 1998).

Research activities
He has a special interest in the public-private law divide, government and different kinds of governance, such as regulation with limited licenses, public contracts (voluntary agreements) and self-regulation.

• Public-Private Law Divide (Public Contract Law)
• State Liability Law
• Legislation and Regulatory Reform
• Comparative Public Law (Dutch Law / English Law)

• The Public-Private Divide in English and Dutch Law: a Multifunctional and Context-Dependant Divide, Cambridge Law Journal  2012, vol. 71(1), pp. 172-199 (co-author: Gerdy Jurgens)
• F.J. van Ommeren, W. den Ouden & C.J. Wolswinkel (ed.), Schaarse publieke rechten, Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2011, 435 p.
• De bevoegdhedenovereenkomst in de Awb en de verhouding met het BW, in: T. Barkhuysen e.a. (ed.) Bestuursrecht harmoniseren: 15 jaar Awb, Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2010, p. 717-735.
• De opmars van het onderscheid tussen publiekrecht en privaatrecht in het Engelse recht. Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2009, 182 p. (co-author: Gerdy Jurgens). With a summary in English: the Rise of the Public-Private Divide in English Law.
• Schaarse vergunningen; De verdeling van schaarse vergunningen als onderdeel van het algemene bestuursrecht, inaugural lecture VU University, Deventer: Kluwer 2004, p. 85.