Marieke Dubelaar is a professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at Radboud University, specializing in criminal conflict resolution. She chairs the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology and is one of the two Nijmegen leaders of the multidisciplinary research program Conflict Resolution Institutions, which collaborates with the universities of Utrecht and Leiden.

 
Marieke Dubelaar teaches both formal and substantive criminal law. She is also a permanent lecturer at the Study Centre for the Administration of Justice (SSR), where she teaches judges and public prosecutors about criminal evidence. She also regularly teaches Dutch and international judicial experts who wish to deepen their knowledge of criminal law.

 
Marieke Dubelaar publishes on a wide range of topics in the field of criminal law and procedure. Her expertise extends specifically to the following themes: criminal conflict and problem resolution, evidence and truth-finding; the position of witnesses and experts; the right to a fair trial; the standardization of the investigation and response to procedural irregularities; the organization of the investigation at the hearing and the role of the judge; and the effects of digitalization on criminal proceedings. Her research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, as she seeks to connect with insights from other disciplines.

 
Since June 2015, Marieke Dubelaar has been a deputy judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. From 2008 to 2015, she worked as a deputy judge at the District Court of The Hague. She is also a member of the editorial board of Tekst & Commentaar Strafrecht en Strafvordering and the editor of the new series of monographs on the modernization of the Code of Criminal Procedure.