This book puts forward a new theoretical concept of the juridical act, this concept is not described from the perspective of a specific national legal system, but instead represents the commonalities and ideas that stem from the Western legal tradition.
Hester van der Kaaij holds a bachelor degree in law and a master degree in private law from the University of Maastricht (2011). In May 2016 she obtained her PhD in the field of legal theory and legal philosophy. Her interests lie with the study of the basic concepts of law, juridical acts, philosophy of language and institutional theories of law. In August 2016 she started her training to become a lawyer at Themis Advocaten in Maastricht.