Marc van Opijnen (1963, the Netherlands) studied administrative, international and European Law at the University of Groningen.
Fascinated by the opportunities the internet has to offer, he mastered the necessary computer skills and has been working for over 20 years as an intermediary between the law, the administration of justice and IT. He has a special interest in all aspects relating to the on-line accessibility of case law, also the subject of his PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam (2014).
Currently he is affiliated to the Publications Office of the Netherlands, and actively involved in various national and European projects on improving the access to legal information. He is a long-standing member of the EU Council working party on e-justice/e-law and currently he is project manager of the EU co-funded project ‘Building on the European Case Law Identifier’. He regularly publishes on his fields of interest.
