Rate My Professor Anne Meuwese

Anne Meuwese is Full Professor of Public Law & Governance of Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University’s Faculty of Law, specifically in the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law within the Institute of Public Law. Appointed on 1 November 2020 as part of the university’s SAILS interdisciplinary programme, her research centres on the application of artificial intelligence by public authorities, the potential of AI to improve monitoring of government actions, and the roles of constitutional law, administrative law, and public administration in governing these developments. She adopts a behavioural perspective, treating these legal fields as tools to influence the actions of public actors. Her current priorities encompass legislative quality, customization in policy implementation, and government communication. Meuwese leads the PDI-SSH funded WetSuite project, which develops Natural Language Processing tools for legal scholars analysing Dutch state documents. From 1 January 2026, she co-leads the NWO-funded project ‘The Artificial Intelligence Act in Action’ with Francien Dechesne.

Meuwese’s academic career includes affiliation with Tilburg University from 2010 to 2020, where she was appointed Professor of European and Comparative Public Law in 2013, and earlier postdoctoral positions at the University of Antwerp and the University of Exeter. She received her doctorate cum laude from Leiden University in 2008 for the thesis ‘Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking’. Notable publications include ‘Better Regulation in Europe: Between Public Management and Regulatory Reform’ (2009, with C.M. Radaelli), ‘Hard Questions, Hard Solutions: Proceduralisation through Impact Assessment in the EU’ (2010, with C.M. Radaelli), ‘Closing the Regulatory Cycle? A Meta Evaluation of Ex-Post Legislative Evaluations by the European Commission’ (2016, with E. Mastenbroek and S. van Voorst), and ‘Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Bridging Idealism and Realism’ (2017, co-edited with M. Adams and E.H. Ballin). She serves on the editorial board of RegelMaat, a journal on legislative issues, and as a member of the Advisory Board of Stichting Algorithm Audit. Previously, she contributed to the Regieraad Responsieve Overheid.