Marc’s career as a criminal law scholar, specialized in victims’ rights, kick-started
with his PhD on “Compensation for Victims of Crimes in the Criminal Trial”
defended at Leiden University in 1985. For this magnum opus of 400 pages, he duly
received in 1986 the prestigious Modderman Prize for best criminal law PhD of the
year. Unsurprisingly, he was soon thereafter, in 1987, at the tender age of 30,
appointed Full Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Tilburg
University.
Thirty years later, he is still the incumbent of that same chair, besides having
been Dean of both the Law and the Social Sciences Faculty of Tilburg University
and Founding Director of the International Victimology Institute Tilburg
(INTERVICT). His tenure in Tilburg, lasting more than three decades, makes him
without doubt one of the longest-sitting chair holders of Dutch universities.