Prof. Dr. P.C. Westerman

Pauline Westerman is professor in Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen and member of staff of the Academy for Legislation in The Hague. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Social and Legal Philosophy (IVR) and editor of Legisprudence: International Journal for the Study of Legislation , Hart Publishing, Oxford. She graduated in philosophy of science but defended her PhD-thesis (cum laude) in the Faculty of Law, which was published in 1998: The Disintegration of Natural Law Theory: Aquinas to Finnis , Brill, Leiden, awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum. In 2010 she was appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.