Jantien Leenknecht

Jantien Leenknecht obtained her Master of Laws at KU Leuven in 2017 and her PhD in 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she was active as a PhD Fellow of the Research Institute Flanders (FWO) at KU Leuven’s interdisciplinary research line Youth Law and Criminology. Her fields of interest are the age limits, relevant actors and reaction possibilities in different youth justice systems as well as the rights of the child and EU criminal procedural law.