Wouter Veraart

Wouter Veraart

Wouter Veraart (1971) is Professor of Legal Philosophy and head of the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Veraart has a strong interest in questions of historic injustice, restitution, victimization and the rule of law. Since 2021, he is one of the investigators of the research program Pressing Matter, which deals with the provenance and destination of colonial collections in Dutch museums. Veraart’s publications include articles on the value of apologies and reparations in relation to slavery and other forms of colonial injustice, most recently “Apologies from the heart: Some reflections on national apologies for colonial slavery” (in Dutch) in Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht (2022).