Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. (cum laude), Tilburg University, 2009
• M.Jur. (with distinction), Oxford University, 2004
• LL.M. (cum laude), Maastricht University, 2003

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2024

Other Positions

• Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2016-Dec 2023
• Associate Dean (Postgraduate Teaching & Curriculum), School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2017-Jun 2020
• Director, J.D. Programme, Singapore Management University, Jul 2017-Jun 2020
• Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2013-Dec 2015
• Assistant Professor of Law, Maastricht University, 2010-2013 
• Assistant Professor of Law, Tilburg University, 2008-2010
• Visiting Scholar, National University of Singapore, 2006
• Doctoral Researcher, Tilburg University, 2004-2008 

Course Taught in SMU

• Comparative Legal Systems
• Constitutions, Cultures and Context

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Engagement with constitutional rules and values outside the courtroom
• Constitutional courts
• Transnational judicial dialogues
• Comparative pedagogy and methodology

Current Projects

• Framework for extra-judicial constitutional interpretation
• Participatory constitution-making in small states
• Cultivating constitutional literacy and identity

Selected Publications

• Academia.edu author page: https://smu-sg.academia.edu/MaartjedeVisser
• SSRN author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=706999

• "Non-Judicial Constitutional Interpretation: The Netherlands" in D Law (ed), Constitutionalism in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) (forthcoming)
• "Glocalized constitution-making in the twenty-first century: evidence from Asia" (2019) 9 Global Constitutionalism 297-331 (with Bui Ngoc Son)
• "Constitutional judges as agents for development" (2019) 12 Law and Development Review 691-722
• "We All Stand Together – The Role of the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions in Promoting Constitutionalism" (2016) 3 Asian Journal of Law and Society 105-13
• "A Critical Assessment of the Role of the Venice Commission in Processes of Domestic Constitutional Reform" (2015) 63 American Journal of Comparative Law 701-46
• "Constitutional Review in Europe – A Comparative Analysis" (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014)