Paul Cliteur

Paul Cliteur
Cliteur at the Debate Night of Arminius, 2014
Member of the Senate
In office 11 June 2019 – 25 November 2020
Personal details
Born	Paul Bernard Cliteur (1955-09-06) 6 September 1955 (age 68)
Political party	Forum for Democracy
Title	Professor emeritus of Jurisprudence at Leiden University
Spouse	Carla Zoethout
Academic background
Alma mater	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (MA) University of Amsterdam (LLM) Leiden University (PhD)
Thesis	Conservatisme en Cultuurrecht. Over de fundering van recht in rechtsbeginselen (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Herman van Gunsteren
Academic work
Discipline	Law, philosophy
Sub-discipline	Jurisprudence
Institutions	Delft University of Technology Leiden University
Doctoral students	Thierry Baudet
Website	Leiden University

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Paul Bernard Cliteur (born 6 September 1955) is a Dutch professor of jurisprudence at Leiden University, as well as a politician, philosopher, writer, publicist and columnist. He is known for his conservative perspective, his atheism, his republicanism, and his dislike of Islam. He is a member of De Vrije Gedachte.^[1] Since 2015, Cliteur is a member of the Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie, where he is chairman of the advisory board and the party's official think tank. In 2019 he was elected to be parliamentary group leader for Forum voor Democratie in the Dutch Senate.^[2]

Cliteur has also been on the board of several organisations, including supervisor of the Telders Foundation (think tank of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy), and from 1993 until 1995 chair of the Humanist League (Humanistisch Verbond).^[3]