Ashley Terlouw is Professor of Sociology of Law at the Law Faculty at Radboud University since 2008. She is Chair of the Department of Migration Law and Sociology of Law, as well as Chair of the Research Center for State and Law (SteR). In addition, she is also responsible for the execution of the Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid with regard to institutions of Conflict Resolution. She is specialized in non-discrimination and asylum law and in the working of legal institutions (especially courts and judges). She wrote her dissertation on collaboration between aliens law judges and held her inaugural lecture on the influence of fear on law. Since 2020 she is chair of the Meijers Committee, the standing committee of experts in International Migration Law, Refugee Law and Criminal Law.