Jaap Wieland

Senior Attorney

Jaap advises and litigates on administrative law aspects of area and project development, transactions and property management and on general administrative law issues.

Jaap specialises in general and European administrative law. He deals with the administrative law aspects of area and project developments, transactions and property management, such as permits, zoning plans and subsidies.

Jaap has registered the following area of law in the Register of Jurisdictions of the Netherlands Bar Association:

• Administrative law

This registration obliges him to earn ten training points each calendar year in each registered area of law according to the standards of the Netherlands Bar Association.

Jaap studied Dutch law, international law and political science at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a junior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam and as a legal advisor to a municipality. Before joining STIJL Advocaten, he worked as a lawyer at the Administrative Law department of the Council of State. There he dealt with, financial administrative law, local government law, electoral law and educational law.

In 2009 Jaap completed the Grotius specialisation programme in General Administrative Law (cum laude). In 2017 he obtained his PhD at Leiden University on the protection of competition interests in administrative law. He regularly publishes on administrative law matters and occasionally gives courses and lectures.

Jaap was a member of the Hearing and Advisory Committee of the Province of Noord-Holland between 2010 and 2019. Jaap is a member of the Association for Administrative Law (VAR).

Jaap is co-author of the Intellectual Property Rights in Construction law Practice Book of the Institute for Construction Law.

Dutch, English.