Wetenschap aan de noordkant. Rechtshistorici uit de Lage Landen (17)

Dieneke Hempenius-Van Dijk lectured for nearly half a century at the University of Groningen, and transferred her love for old Dutch law to many that once read law in the most northern province of the Netherlands. In this interview, conducted in January 2024, Dieneke again showed how to set front stage the need for legal history in teaching law, and to always look as well at the law in action. Hence her teaching was always embedded in and very much strenghtened by knowledge acquired from meticulous archival research, often in collaboration with her husband Bertus Hempenius. The High Court of Friesland, old as well as early modern Frisian law, substance as well as procedure, and the Groningen orphanage chamber, and much more has been kept alive and kicking in spoken and written word, according to Dieneke Hempenius-Van Dijk’s high academic and exemplary standards.