Board 2023 - 2024
Daily Board 2023 - 2024
Margot van Delft – Chairman
Maartje Laarhoven – Secretary
Isabel Claeijs – Treasurer and Education Commissioner
Nina Prast – PR Commissioner
Chairman
Margot van Delft
chairman@magisterjft.nl
In my role as Chairman, I carry several responsibilities. First, I lead both General Board and General Members Meetings. In addition, it is essential that I am fully informed about everything concerning Magister JFT. This includes actively maintaining contacts, a crucial aspect of my duties. I maintain contact with various entities, including the Chambers of Magister JFT, the Faculty Board of TLS, the Executive Board of Tilburg University, other associations within and outside of Tilburg, and many more.
My duties include developing policy and new ideas, optimizing existing processes, and ensuring a positive work environment within the board. Finally, I am also the Chairman of TiGeAk, an umbrella organization that, in cooperation with other associations in Tilburg, represents the interests of all association boards at Tilburg University.
Secretary
Maartje Laarhoven
secretary@magisterjft.nl
The Secretary of Magister JFT is the face of the association, both internally and externally. My responsibilities include managing multiple email accounts and overseeing the recruitment process for the central committees of Magister JFT, ensuring that all members find a fitting role within the association. I maintain active communication with students, members, and various stakeholders, including former board members and alumni.
In addition, I coordinate a diverse range of engaging committees, including the Activities Committee, the Ice Committee, and the Almanac Committee. Moreover, I hold the role of Chair within the Application Committee. As part of my commitment to ensuring that our members always have someone to turn to, I also serve as the association's Confidential Contact Person.
Lastly, I am accountable for various administrative tasks, such as maintaining the membership database, sending out the monthly member newsletter, crafting contributions for the yearbook, and, of course, documenting all significant General Board and Member meetings. It is indeed a challenging role where each day brings new experiences!
Treasurer and Education Commissioner
Isabel Claeijs
treasurer@magisterjft.nl
The Treasurer keeps track of all the finances of Magister JFT. This means I am ultimately responsible for the cashflow of all the Chambers, Committees and Student Party. This also means that I compose a financial plan each year, as well as financial reports. Together with the Auditing Committee, I make sure all of this is correct. Next to this, I also administer the events on the website, as well as coordinate the National Quick Pleading Committee and the trips inside and outside Europe.
As Education Commissioner, my main goal is to support students in many ways. For example, I am responsible for various educational events such as "Fit for The Future" and maintain close contact with TLS. As Education Commissioner, I am also in charge of coordinating pleading association DiCiT and I am the editor-in-chief of SecJure, our independent faculty magazine. In addition, I manage the book list, summaries and exam trainings. In short, a position with many diverse tasks!
PR Commissioner
Nina Prast
prcommissioner@magisterjft.nl
The PR commissioner mainly focusses on promotion and coordinating the mentorship. Next to that I coordinate a few central committees. For instance the First Year committee and the Media and Promotion committee. As a PR commissioner, every day is different and that’s what I really like about my function. One thing that is always the same: Everyday I get the chance to express my creative and social side. For the promotion I manage all the social media accounts and I create content for the central promotion. Next to that I help the Student Party and the Chambers with their promotion. For the mentorship I coordinate all student mentors and work together with the University to give first year students a good start. In short, a very versatile function where you can join very much experience.
General Board member and Chairman Magister JFT | Global Law
Loes Adriaans
globallawchairman@magisterjft.nl
As the Chairman of Magister JFT | Global Law my focus is on all Global Law students at TLS. Together with my board and our committees, we organise all kinds of events, from social to academic and from professional to personally-developing; there is something for everyone! As the Chairman I am responsible for the functioning of the board and its organisations, while also coordinating one of our committees and, additionally, also taking position in the General Board of the association on behalf of the Global Law chamber. Being Chairman of the board of Magister JFT | Global Law means working hard, but also meeting a lot of new people, developing on a social and professional level and learning many things that are not in the regular study programs!
General Board member and Chairman Magister JFT | Juribes
Lieke den Uijl
juribesvoorzitter@magisterjft.nl
My name is Lieke den Uijl. I am 20 years old and I am currently in my fourth year of the bachelor Public Administration. This year I have the honour to be the chairman of Magister JFT | Juribes. This entails that I have the responsibility to make sure that everything runs smoothly in the chamber. Next to that I coordinate the Podcastcommittee and the Seniorcommittee. Also, we as a board organise a variety of activities, both social and professional. Finally, I am part of the General Board of
Magister JFT, in which we discuss things that concern the whole association.
General Board member and Chairman Magister JFT | Justitia
Sam Besuijen
justitiavoorzitter@magisterjft.nl
As Chairman of Magister JFT | Justitia, the Chamber of Law and Business Law, I am responsible for my Justitia board and the committees under it. They take care of the actual organisation of the activities, which I, as Chairman, obviously have to oversee. My duties mainly consist of leading meetings within the Chamber and coordinating my board. I also take a seat on the General Board of Magister JFT, where, together with the rest, I ensure that the association runs at the top of its game.
General Board member and Chairman Vrijspraak, Student Party of Magister JFT
Durante Held
vrijspraakvoorzitter@magisterjft.nl
Vrijspraak is a student party which represents students’ needs within TLS as their main responsibility. In practice representing students means that we support the Faculty Council and the Program Commitees. In order to stimulate the communication between the student participatory organisations within TLS we organise Open Party Meetins which I, as chairman, have to lead. I also keep in close contact with several other student parties and student participatory organisations within TLS. Finally as chairman I carry responsibility for the board meetings. We are part of Magister and have a say in what happens within the association. As the chairman I have a seat in the General Board which means I carry responsibility for decisions concerning the entire association.
General Board member and Chairman Magister JFT | E-Law
Antonino Raffa
elawchairman@magisterjft.nl
As chairman of Magister JFT | E-Law your tasks are not always specific or clearly outlined which leaves you with a lot of wiggle room and space for creativity. That being said, in your position you will have to organise regular meetings with your board members to make sure events are being planned and new or existing speakers are being approached. As an LLM student it is understandable that you do not have that much time on your hands, but it is possible to balance the role alongside your degree as you have the flexibility to decide when to have your board meetings and when to organise events.
Throughout the year you, with your board, have a wide array of topics to choose from, be it medical law, data protection and privacy law or competition law. You help organizing all kind of interesting activities for Law & Technology students.
As chairperson of Magister JFT | E-Law you are also part of the general board which sees to it that the association runs smoothly, and you can achieve goals for the law school! You have the opportunity to directly improve your university experience and that’s pretty neat.