Experience

Bureau Clara Wichmann

• Netherlands
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Raad van bestuur

  • Jun 2023 - Present

• Director

  • Feb 2018 - Jul 2023



Law Centre for Health and Life

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development

  • Nov 2020 - Present



Universiteit van Amsterdam - Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Professor Health Law & Policy

  • May 2018 - Present



University of Amsterdam

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant-Professor European law

  • Feb 2017 - May 2018

  Anniek de Ruijter is Assistant-Professor of European law at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law. She is a research fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) and ACCESS Europe. Her research interests lie at the intersection of European Union law and health law and policy. In this respect she focuses on constitutional questions regarding the EU role in human health and risk regulation. Anniek de Ruijter was a year-long Fulbright fellow to the United States. She holds an LLM (Masters in Law) from both Columbia University School of Law (NYC) and the University of Amsterdam. After her LLM degree she conducted research for one year as a visiting researcher at Columbia University, School of Law. She also was a research fellow during her PhD at the Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne, Pantheon, Paris 1. In 2017 she received the Veni award of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for a four-year research project on improving the EU constitutional order for responding to human health disasters such as pandemics or bioterrorist attacks. Before re-joining the UvA, she was Assistant-Professor at the Maastricht Centre for European Law. De Ruijter completed her PhD at the UvA, Faculty of Law, under supervision of Professor Deirdre Curtin. In 2015 the PhD thesis received 'honorable mention for outstanding new academic work’ from the Dutch Association for Health Law. The thesis will be published as a book by Oxford University Press. Anniek is on editorial board of the European Journal Risk Regulation with Cambridge University Press (2016) and she was editor on the Columbia Journal for European Law. Together with Maria Weimer, she has edited: Regulating Risks in the European Union - The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power (Hart). Together with Hylke Dijkstra she has edited a special issue with the European Journal of Risk Regulation (CUP) on the EU public-health security nexus, setting out a new agenda for research. Show less



Clara Wichmann Foundation

• Amsterdam

• Chair of the Board

  • 2010 - Jan 2018

  The Clara Wichmann Strategic Litigation Foundation supports principled litigation for womens rights. In 2012, the Foundation won a case against the SGP (Reformed Political Party), claiming that the SGP discriminates as long as women can not be elected as a representative for their party in national or municipal elections. The Clara Wichmann Strategic Litigation Foundation supports principled litigation for womens rights. In 2012, the Foundation won a case against the SGP (Reformed Political Party), claiming that the SGP discriminates as long as women can not be elected as a representative for their party in national or municipal elections.



Maastricht University

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor European Union law

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

  Anniek de Ruijter is currently assistant professor of European Union law and working on a new research project on domestic courts as European courts. Anniek is interested in European constitutional, institutional law and fundamental rights and health policy. She has conducted interdisciplinary research on these subjects combining a legal approach with empirical methods. Anniek’s research is part of the Maastricht Centre for European Law. Anniek de Ruijter is currently assistant professor of European Union law and working on a new research project on domestic courts as European courts. Anniek is interested in European constitutional, institutional law and fundamental rights and health policy. She has conducted interdisciplinary research on these subjects combining a legal approach with empirical methods. Anniek’s research is part of the Maastricht Centre for European Law.



Amsterdamse Vrouwenklinieken EVAA I & II

• Amsterdam en omgeving, Nederland

• Technical chair medical governance council

  • Oct 2015 - Feb 2017



University of Amsterdam

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in EU law

  • 2010 - 2015

  (2014) Coordinator of MA course European Health Law and Policy(2014) Lecturer BA Course European Union Law(2010) Lecturer MA Course Government and Health(2010) Lecturer MA Course EU Administrative Law and Governance(2007) Lecturer BA Course Contract Law in Perspective

• PhD Candidate

  • 2008 - Jun 2014

  Anniek’s thesis, written under supervision of Professor Curtin, received 'honorable mention for outstanding new academic work’ from the Dutch Association for Health Law. The thesis concerns a rights-based analysis of EU health law and policy and is entitled A Silent Revolution: The Expansion of EU Power in the Field of Human Health.

• Lecturer on Contract Law

  • 2007 - 2008

  Teaching a first year course on contract law.

• Member of the Management Board of the Law Faculty

  • 2006 - 2007

  Student member, responsible for ensuring that the student voice was heard in the decisions taken in management and administrative matters.