Alrik de Haas

In 2005, Mr. Alrik de Haas graduated in criminal law from the University of Utrecht.

Alrik has been a criminal lawyer since 2006. He has acted throughout the Netherlands in a wide variety of criminal and deprivation cases. Alrik has extensive experience in assisting defendants in traffic criminal cases and providing assistance to defendants in fraud cases and economic criminal matters. Alrik has special knowledge in the field of TBS and is a specialist member of the Association of TBS lawyers.

Due to his extensive experience as a criminal lawyer, Alrik teaches other criminal lawyers in the Netherlands, Suriname and the Antilles. He has been closely involved in the professional training for young lawyers of the Dutch Bar Association as a lecturer since 2013. Since 2017 he has been closely involved in the training of magistrates from the training institute of the Judiciary and the Public Prosecution Service.

Alrik publishes regularly in scientific books and journals. He is an external doctoral student at the Open University, University of Amsterdam and Anton de Kom University (Paramaribo, Suriname). In that context, he conducts empirical-legal research on conflict resolution in Maroon communities in the interior of Suriname and its ultimate significance for Dutch criminal (procedural) law.

The importance of milder values in criminal law Alrik also conveys as president of the Human and Criminal Law Foundation (link) Alrik has been involved in the development of so-called restorative justice, in particular mediation in criminal cases, in the Netherlands from the very beginning.

Alrik is a deputy justice at the Court of Appeal of The Hague. This allows him to anticipate how a judge will look at the case when preparing the defense in criminal cases.

Since May 1, 2023, Alrik has been part of the team at Weening Criminal Lawyers.