Maartje van der Woude is Professor of Law and Society at Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society. She holds degrees in Dutch law and criminology and received her PhD from Leiden University in 2010. Her interdisciplinary socio-legal research focuses on migration and border control, crimmigration, security governance, discretion, ethnic profiling, and fundamental rights.

Van der Woude has published extensively in Dutch and English, including peer-reviewed articles, books, and edited volumes. She is the author of The Mobility Control Apparatus: Getting to the Core of Crimmigration in the Schengen Area (Routledge, 2025) and in 2018, she received the Young Scientists Award in the Humanities for her research on the relationship between law and public debate concerning terrorism, migration, and cross-border crime.

Van der Woude joined the Law and Society Association in 2008 and has been an active member ever since. She served on the LSA Board of Trustees from 2017 to 2020, the 2019 Annual Meeting Program Committee, and the 2026 Herbert Jacob Book Prize Committee. From 2012 to 2016, she was a board member of the LSA Collaborative Research Network on Citizenship and Migration.

Since 2011, she has served on the board of the Crimmigration Control International Net of Studies, and since 2018 she has been Associate Director of the Border Criminologies Research Network at the University of Oxford. She was also a board member of the Dutch Law and Society Association from 2016 to 2020 and is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. As a Trustee, she would bring extensive governance experience, an international perspective, and a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and inclusive Law and Society scholarship.