Femke Laagland
Professor of Labour Law / Advisor
Boontje Advocaten & Mediators is proud to announce that Femke Laagland joined our firm as an advisor on 1 September 2025. She succeeds Cees Loonstra, who retired as professor of labour law at Erasmus University and left our firm on 1 June.
Femke is a professor of (European) employment law at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She is also a Crown member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) and a deputy justice at the Court of Appeal in Arnhem-Leeuwarden. Femke was a member of the Borstlap Committee, which advised the government on the future of employment law. More recently, she was a member of the Van Rijn Committee, which conducted research at the NPO. Finally, Femke is a member of the Supervisory Board of BNNVARA.
Femke will share her academic knowledge with us and provide us with professional support. In doing so, Femke will further strengthen and deepen our firm’s employment law profile.
We are delighted that Femke will be joining our firm with her expertise.