Dr. Bart Jansen LL.M.

Whoever asserts a value, must bring its influence to bear. Whoever maintains that it has value regardless of the influence brought to bear by any individual human being who endorses it, is simply cheating

In addition to his work at Nyenrode, Jansen teaches General Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, where he currently lectures on Law and Human Behaviour. Since the spring of 2022, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Legal Philosophy at Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia, where he also conducts comparative legal research on Indonesia and the Netherlands. In 2023, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law of the University of Curaçao; in 2025, he taught Legal Philosophy at Leiden University; and since 2025, he has been Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at Anton de Kom University of Suriname.

Jansen’s research and publications focus primarily on legal philosophy and ethics. In addition, he publishes on aesthetics and philosophy of art, the semiotics of law, existential philosophy, medical ethics and health law, sustainability in global supply chains and the arts sector, comparative constitutional law, business ethics and management philosophy, as well as legal history.

In January 2022, Bart Jansen obtained his PhD from Nyenrode Business University. In his dissertation, he advanced the argument that business ethics is increasingly subject to juridification, and that this process obstructs the functioning of a genuinely ethical discourse.

Most relevant publications

• Jansen, B. (2025). The Politicization of Business Ethics: State, Corporation, and Society Seen from a Schmitian Perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly.
• Jansen, B. (2025). A Deconstruction of the Juridical Conditions of Business Ethics. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.
• Jansen, B. (2025). Legal Ethics and Legalised Legal Ethics: A Critical Inquiry Into the Disparity Between Reflection and Compliance. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 44(1), 45-62.
• Jansen, B. (2023). The Juridification of Business Ethics. New York: Springer.
• Jansen, B. (2023). The Ontological Indifference of Rights of Nature. Liverpool Law Review, doi: 10.1007/s10991-023-09344-8.
• Jansen, B. & Schreiner, A.T.M. (2023). Captured by Digitization: Algorithms, Law, and Media. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, doi: 10.1007/s11196-022-09958-7.
• Jansen, B. & Jeurissen, R. (2022). Camera Iuridica: Plea Against a Legally Thought Business Ethics. Ethical Perspectives – A Quarterly Review, 29(2), p. 197-229.