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Jelle Cnossen is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University specializing in substantive and special criminal law. His research focuses on the relationship between special and common criminal law, with a significant body of work leading up to his dissertation defended in 2024. Cnossen has published several articles over recent years and is actively involved in teaching criminal law courses, including Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure II at the bachelor's level and Special Criminal Law in the master's program. He supervises bachelor's and master's theses. In 2025, he won the faculty teaching award for senior lecturers. Prior to joining Radboud University, Cnossen worked for a time at the Public Prosecution Service (National Office, 2012) and as a PhD fellow and lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Leiden University from 2013 to 2021. He is an author contributing to various legal commentaries and serves as an editor for legal journals pertaining to criminal law and enforcement.
Radboud University • Nijmegen, Netherlands
Teaching and researching criminal law.
Leiden University • Leiden, Netherlands
Research and teaching in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure.
Public Prosecution Service • Netherlands
Worked in the National Office of the Public Prosecution Service.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).