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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > key people in law and society > Cornelis van Vollenhoven
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Cornelis van Vollenhoven  

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  • Cornelis van Vollenhoven, a Dutch jurist, was the founder of the school of adat law that advocated empirical research on customary law in Indonesia. In Leiden, the Netherlands, van Vollenhoven studied Semitic languages, law, and political science, obtaining a doctorate in the latter two disciplines in 1898. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Vollenhoven, Cornelis Van]

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