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Kees Waaldijk Kees Waaldijk (Netherlands, 1958) (LLM Rotterdam, PhD Maastricht) is professor of comparative sexual orientation law at the Leyden University (campus The Hague) in the Netherlands. His sponsored chair, which is unique for Europe, was established in 2011 as part of Leyden Law School's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He has also worked at the universities of Rotterdam, Maastricht, Utrecht, Edinburgh end Lancaster, at Hastings college of Law in San Francisco, and at summer schools of a number of law schools. In the Spring of 2014 he will be teaching comparative sexual orientation law at he University of California in Los Angeles (the Williams Institute).He has published widely on legal aspects of sexual orientation, including the free movement of same-sex partners in Europe, and the 'standard sequences' in the legal recognition of homosexuality. Since publishing his first article on same-sex marriage in 1987 and then becoming involved in several test cases and legislative lobbies, Kees Waaldijk has contributed to the opening up of family law to gay and lesbian couples in the Netherlands and beyond. Most of his publications (in many languages) are online available on his website. He is the author of the frequently updated article Same-Sex Partnership, International Protection in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Together with Matteo Bonini Beraldi he wrote the 2006 book Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the European Union. And his inaugural lecture in 2012 was about The Right to Relate. With funding from the European Union, he is now in charge of a comparative research project on The Legal Content of Family Formats Available to Same-Sex and/or Different-Sex Couples. At the Antwerp conference, Kees Waaldijk participated in the panel on migration and saftey. |