Jacco Bomhoff

Jacco Bomhoff is an Associate Professor of Law at LSE Law School, having joined the LSE in 2008. He has degrees from Oxford University and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His main areas of interest are comparative law and the conflict of laws (private international law). His publications include the monograph ‘Balancing Constitutional Rights: The Origins and Meanings of Postwar Legal Discourse’ (Cambridge, 2013), and the edited collections ‘The Double-Facing Constitution’ (Cambridge, 2020, with David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole), and ‘Practice and Theory in Comparative Law’ (Cambridge 2012, with Maurice Adams). Jacco has held appointments as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, KU Leuven, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), and the University of California – Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He has won several LSE awards for teaching.

Research interests

• Comparative law
• Conflict of laws
• Cultural study of law
• Constitutional and legal theory
• Transnational legal ordering

Experience Keywords

*20th-century history of legal thought; comparative constitutional law; conflict of laws

Research Summary

I am currently pursuing two main lines of research:

(1) Rethinking the role of private international law in relation to global governance. Within this project, I am particularly interested in private international law''s Postwar intellectual history and in its relations to constitutional theory.

(2) Legalism in comparative jurisprudence. This project looks at lawyers'' and legal scholars'' ideas of what good law and legal reasoning should look like. I am particularly interested in differences among such ideas as between Western Europe and the US during the Postwar era, and about what these differences might mean for law''s functioning today.

Languages

Dutch [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]