Dr Friso Johannes Jansen is an interdisciplinary academic with research expertise in sociology of law, regulation, and public policy. He holds key senior strategic research roles in the School of Law. He is the Associate Director of Research for Research Integrity and Doctoral Research. He is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Law, Science and Policy. He is the PhD lead on the Faculty Research Degrees and Environment Committee, the Law chair on the Faculty Ethics Committee and regularly contributes to University Disciplinary Committees that look at academic misconduct. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. In 2019 he received the researcher of the year award at BCU.
Friso holds a DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an LLM in Legal Research and LLM in Law and Public Policy from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Friso leads a cross-faculty pedagogical project that provides medical students with a simulation of a Fitness to Practice Tribunal in the mock Crown Court Room. He is currently developing publications that disseminate the innovative pedagogies used in this project.
Friso’s research engages with the pedagogy of doctoral supervision and the role of medical experts in the construction of legal rules that impact the quality of medicine. His research builds on the key monograph Professional Regulation and Medical Guidelines: The Real Forces Behind the Development of Evidence-based Guidelines, seeking to develop a broader theoretical and philosophical engagement with the key drivers of professional regulation within the context of evidence-based medicine.
As a senior academic, Friso has extensive experience of teaching across all levels including at Doctoral level where he teaches a dedicated Doctoral Legal Research Methods Masterclass. He designed and taught modules such as Global Health Law, Medical Law & Ethics, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Advanced Legal Research Methods, and the Dissertation Module. He has supervised over 75 students across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programmes.
Friso currently supervises a range of doctoral researchers and is open to supervise doctoral researchers that share his research interests.
- Sociology of Law
- Medical Law
- Public Law
- Constitutional Law
- Applied Ethics
- Public Policy
- Sociology
- SEDA (Postgraduate Supervision)
- PGCert (Learning and Teaching in HE)
- DPhil Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford)
- MSc Regulation (government) (LSE)
- LLM (Res.) Legal Research (Groningen)
- LLM Law and Public Policy (Groningen)
- LLB Law and Public Policy (Groningen)
- Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
- Member of the Vereniging voor de Sociaalwetenschappelijke bestudering van het recht
- Critical Legal Thinking
- Medical Law and Ethics
- Doctoral Legal Research Methods Masterclass
- Community of Practice for Doctoral Supervisors
- Medical Law
- Sociology of Law
To date Dr Jansen has supervised the following topics and PhD students:
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Ongoing supervision
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‘An examination of judicia decision-making in vaccine harm cases in the United States’, American Law, Laura Smillie.
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Ongoing supervision
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‘The organisation of American States and the safeguarding of environmental rights’, Environmental Law, Freda Hernandez.
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Ongoing supervision
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‘The answer to balancing the protection of private property rights against environmental regulation’, Public Law, Sarfaraz Khan.
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Ongoing supervision
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‘The effect of social change on the regulation of forced marriage in Nigeria’, Human Rights Law, Emmanuela Enweonwu.
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Completed 2021
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‘International investment regime, tobacco control, and regulatory chill: Case studies in the post-Soviet space, International Investment Law, Oleksandra Vytiaganets.
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Previous supervision
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‘Compassionate release in the USA: Interdisciplinary perspectives’, American Criminal Justice, Thomas Nicklin.
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Dr Jansen has also examined the following PhD students:
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Independent chair of viva 2023
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‘Exploring financial strain in student population: A stress and coping approach, Psychology, Jessica Perry.
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Independent chair of viva 2023
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‘The dependent film distributor: The role of entrepreneurship and experience in the UK Irish theatrical film sector’, Music Studies, Frank Mannion.
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Internal examiner 2022
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‘Legal challenges and judicial responses to the scientific uncertainty associated with shaken baby syndrome / abusive head trauma in the USA’, American Law, Sally Phillips.
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Dr Jansen has published in a range of areas covering evaluation of laws, administrative law, socio-legal theory and the interaction of science and law. He specialises in combining qualitative methods with in depth comparative doctrinal analysis of law and regulation.
- Jansen, F. J. (2023 in preparation) Teaching tribunals: An immersive simulation of medical (mal)practice. Book chapter in preparation for: Monaghan, C. (2023) Debating Rights and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for Research-led Teaching.
- Jansen, F. J. (2021) Fitness to practice tribunals in the UK and the Netherlands. Book chapter in Comparative Study of Medical Guidelines. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Jansen, F.J. (2020) The role of policy in the exercise of discretion: a comparative search for fairness. Juris Poiesis, 23 (32). pp. 657-661.
- Jansen, F. J. (2020) Professional Regulation and Medical Guidelines: The Real Forces Behind the Development of Evidence-based Guidelines. Intersentia.
- Jansen, F. J. (2019) Judicial deference or judicial activism: an exploration of Dutch administrative law. Juris Poiesis, 22 (29). pp. 300-306.
- Jansen, F. J. (2019) De Omgevingswet: wetgeving als symbool of communicatieve wetgeving? Recht der Werkelijkheid, 40 (2). pp. 44-64.
- Jansen, F. J (2017) The shifting sands of evidence: a socio-legal enquiry into the development of medical guidelines. DPhil Thesis. University of Oxford.
- Jansen, F. J. (2015) Bloody Glucose! Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies: volume 1, issue 1.
- De Graaf, K. J, Marseille, A. T, and Jansen, F. J. (2013) Accelerating court proceedings with the Dutch Crisis and Recovery Act: Direct and indirect effects of procedural provisions. Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law 10 (3).
- A.T. Marseille, B.W.N. de Waard, F.J. Jansen, K.J. de Graaf, M.A. de Vos (2012) Evaluatieonderzoek procesrechtelijke bepalingen Crisis- en herstelwet. Evaluation Report on the Crisis and Recovery Act.
- A.T. Marseille, K.J. de Graaf, F.J. Jansen (2012) Het bestuursprocesrecht van de Crisis- en herstelwet: sneller en relatiever? NJB 2012, (9). The Public Procedural Law of the Crisis-and Recovery Act: Quicker and More Relative? Dutch Lawyers Journal.
- A.T. Marseille, K.J. de Graaf & F.J. Jansen (2011) Tussenrapportage evaluatieonderzoek procesrechtelijke bepalingen. Crisis- en herstelwet, Groningen: Vakgroep Bestuursrecht & Bestuurskunde 2011. Interim-report on the Crisis and Recovery Act.
- Jansen, F. J. (2010) Renting with a good sense of the law: A socio-legal enquiry into the legal consciousness of landlords and tenants of student rooms in Groningen. 3rd place Annual Thesis Price: Dutch-Flemish Association for the Sociology of Law.
During his career he has given several research presentations and been invited to talk on his research specialisms in an international context. For example, he has presented his research on judicial activism in Brazil and his work on medical guidelines in the Netherlands, as well as chairing research discussions at Birmingham City University. A short selection of these presentations is provided below.
- Dutch policy evaluation and the Crisis and Recovery Act (2021) Guest lecture invited by the University of Groningen. The Netherlands.
- The role of policy and the exercise of discretion: comparative search for fairness (2020) Law and Society Association Conference. Online conference originally to be held in Denver Colorado.
- Judicial deference or judicial activism: an exploration of Dutch administrative law (2019) Estácio de Sá University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Workshop.
- Medical guidelines and shifting powers (2019) Vereniging voor de Sociaal-wetenschappelijke bestudering van het Recht (VSR) Schiermonikkoog, the Netherlands.
- Lower-back pain: the search for the optimal guideline – the creation of facts and the role of science (2016) Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference. University of Lancaster.
- From medical guidelines to medical norms: a journey through the legal borderlands of the Netherlands and England (2015) Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference. University of Warwick.
- Introduction to the Dutch and UK healthcare systems (2013) St Anne’s College Workshop. University of Oxford.
- Medical practice guidelines and research design (2013) Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Seminar. University of Oxford.
