Who is Ybo Buruma? 

Ybo Buruma has always had a great interest in social and political questions. He has been engaged widely in public debates on trust in the judiciary, on crime as well as on law and politics.

Ybo is Justice in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. Until 2011, Ybo was a professor of Criminal Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He was Chair of the Commissie Posthumus II, the Committee for the Assessment of Closed Cases, that evaluated cases in order to find out about judicial errors.

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View Ybo’s profile at the Hoge Raad, or his Wikipedia entry (in Dutch).