Dana van Weerden joined Pels Rijcken’s Administrative Law department in 2018, where she focuses on a range of issues involving government transparency, oversight and enforcement.
Dana graduated from Leiden University with a BA in Criminology and Law and a master’s degree in Youth Law. She studied Constitutional and Administrative Law at VU Amsterdam and completed part of her BA at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. During her studies, Dana completed an internship with the judiciary and legal firms. She undertook a graduation project at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and was a law clerk at the District Court of The Hague.