Marie Decock

Background

About Marie Decock

Assistant Professor in Public Law (Hasselt University - Belgium). • Assistant Professor in Administrative Law (Maastricht University - the Netherlands). • FWO Postdoctoral Researcher (Hasselt University & KU Leuven - Belgium). • Yale Law School VR ‘24. Research interests: public law, the public-private law divide, administrative law (e.g, economic administrative law, administrative organization law), comparative administrative law, municipal law, local government, interlocal cooperation, alternative service delivery, shared services, democratic accountability, and smart cities. My ongoing research project is titled:'Inter-local Cooperation in Civil and Common Law Traditions. A Comparative Law Study of Interlocal Entities at The Interface Between Public and Private Law'. In the fall of 2024, I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex (UK). During the 2023-2024 academic year, I attended Yale Law School (USA) as a Visiting Researcher, where I conducted a one-year research project on the democratic accountability and transparency of interlocal entities, sponsored by prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman and prof. David Schleicher. In the spring of 2021 and the winter of 2023, I was a Visiting Researcher at VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Previously, I was a PhD Researcher at Hasselt University where I have pursued my dream to write a doctoral thesis at the intersection of public and private law (2022), and I obtained my master's degree in Law at Ghent University (2017, magna cum laude). Winner PhD Cup 2023. Winner Triennial Doctorate Prize Joseph Merlot-Joseph Leclercq 2023. Winner KVAB-JA Annual Prize Science Communication 2024. - Please feel free to contact me at marie.decock@uhasselt.be.