Dr. Mark Klaassen is Assistant Professor at the Europa Instituut at Leiden University. He graduated from Warwick University with a Master of Arts in Politics in 2008 and progressed to an LLM in European law at Leiden University, where he graduated cum laude. In 2012, he started his doctoral research on the right to family reunification at Leiden Law School and obtained his Ph.D. in 2015.
Klaassen is currently a lecturer and coordinator of various courses related to immigration law at Leiden Law School. In 2018, he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Council on Migration, an advisory body for the Dutch government and parliament on immigration law and policy. Klaassen is a board member of the Dutch Association on Migration Research and of the Netherlands Migration Law Foundation (Stichting Migratierecht Nederland).
His research focuses on immigration law, with a particular emphasis on family reunification and the intersection of children’s rights and immigration law.
