News item | 23-06-2023 | 1:00 pm
prof. Mr. Toon van Mierlo will be appointed chairman of the Advisory Committee on Restitution Applications for Cultural Property and the Second World War (the Restitutions Committee) as of 15 August. prof. mr. Corjo Jansen has been appointed as a member of the Restitutions Committee as of 1 September. That is a decision of State Secretary Gunay Uslu (Culture and Media).
The Restitutions Committee was established in 2001 and advises the State Secretary on applications for the restitution of cultural objects that were stolen during the Second World War or lost involuntarily through the Nazi regime in some other way. A lawyer was sought for both positions.
The new chairman Van Mierlo works part-time as a lawyer at Habraken Rutten. He is also part-time professor at both the University of Groningen and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds numerous supervisory and management positions, such as chairman of the Healthcare Insurance Act Disputes Committee and member of the KNVB Arbitration Committee.
Jansen works as a professor of Legal History and Civil Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has several publications on law and the Second World War to his name. He also holds various management and supervisory positions. He is, among other things, chairman of the board of the Grotius Academy and of the Research Center for Business & Law.