Rate My Professor Sonja Meijer

Meijer's research specializes in criminal procedural law, sanctions law (imposition and enforcement of sentences and measures), detention law, and penology, combining legal-normative, empirical, and comparative methods. She earned her LL.M. in Criminal Law and Civil Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam on July 22, 2003, and began her doctorate at Tilburg University on October 15, 2006. In 2016, she was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Key publications include the co-edited volume Fundamental Rights and Legal Consequences of Criminal Conviction (Hart Publishing, 2019, with H. Annison and A. O'Loughlin), Vergelijkend onderzoek 41-bis detentieregime (2023, with S. Struijk and P. Verrest), and WODC studies such as Strafverzwaring in samenhang: De invloed van recente wetgeving op de gevangenisstraf bezien vanuit de wetssystematiek, rechtsvergelijking en praktijk (2026, with M. van Meeteren and S. Buisman), Recidive na drie geweldsmisdrijven (2024, with M. van Meeteren, I. Achten, and C. Immink), and De zucht naar vrijheid (2019, with M. Hirsch Ballin, M. Cupido, and Y. Piekhaar). She is an editorial board member of Sancties, sub-editor for the Vrijheidsstraf section of Delikt en Delinkwent and the Penitentiair Recht section of KwartaalSignaal Ars Aequi, and annotator for provisions on penalties in Tekst & Commentaar Strafrecht and Book 6 of Tekst & Commentaar Strafvordering.