Biography
Dr. Marie DeCock is Assistant Professor in Public Law at the Centre for Government and Law of Hasselt University (Belgium), Assistant Professor in Administrative Law at the Department of Public Law of Maastricht University (the Netherlands), and Postdoctoral Researcher at the FWO Research Foundation Flanders in collaboration with Hasselt University & KU Leuven.In her current research and teaching, Marie DeCock focuses on public law, the public-private law divide, economic administrative law, administrative organization law, comparative administrative research, municipal law, local government, interlocal cooperation, alternative service delivery, shared services, democratic accountability, and smart cities.
Marie holds a PhD degree in Law from Hasselt University (2022), where she wrote a doctoral thesis on interlocal cooperation at the intersection of public and private law. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex (UK), a Visiting Researcher at Yale University (USA), and a Visiting Researcher at VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She obtained her master's degree at Ghent University (2017, magna cum laude).
Marie was awarded several academic prizes for her work, including the Triennial Doctorate Prize Joseph Merlot-Joseph Leclercq on Public Economy 2023 for her book on inter-municipal cooperation, the PhD Cup 2024, and the KVAB-JA Annual Prize on Science Communication 2024.
Her full list of publications is available here. here
Linkedin: Marie DeCock
