Hendrik Jan van Eikema Hommes (May 3, 1930, IJlst – September 3, 1984,

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) was a noted Dutch

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and successor to

Herman Dooyeweerd Herman Dooyeweerd (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam) was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of Reformational phil ...

in the post of philosopher and judicial scholar at

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. Van Eikema Hommes wrote an ''Introduction to the Philosophy of Dooyeweerd'', along with numerous legal studies. He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983.

Academic works

*''Major trends in the history of legal philosophy''. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1979. *"Freedom and equality in constitutional and civil law." In: Equality and Freedom: International and Comparative Jurisprudence. Papers of the World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. St Louis, 1975. Vol. III, 1977, pp. 1085–1094. * * * * * * *
Legal Order and Legal Principles
" in ''Symposia I'' (''Memoria del X Congreso mundial ordinario de filosofía del derecho y filosofía social'' 5; Universidad nacional autónoma de México, 1981), pp. 43–56.

References

1930 births 1984 deaths Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Wymbritseradiel Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch philosophers {{Netherlands-philosopher-stub