Education CV
I am currently a PhD-student at the Faculty, funded by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. I am researching inchoate offences, focusing in particular on the law of attempts, their justifications, and what the law ought to look like in this area.
Before coming to Cambridge I completed an LL.B in Dutch Law (cum laude) and a two-year Research LL.M (cum laude), as well as a BA in Philosophy of Political Science (cum laude) at the University of Groningen.
Alongside my studies, I worked as a student assistant and lecturer in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Groningen, and completed an internship at the Dutch Supreme Court (Criminal Law Section).
Besides reading for my PhD, I also supervise philosophy undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge for a number of courses.
Research centres and interest groups
Punishing Attempts
Supervisors
Professor Findlay Stark & Professor Richard Holton (Faculty of Philosophy)
Representative Publications
W.O. Wegkamp, 'Grensgebieden van vrijwillige terugtred bij de poging', Boom Strafblad 2025(2), 70-76.
W. O. Wegkamp. ‘De achtervolging van de vergelding: het leven en werk van Leo Polak’, Sancties 2024/18.
H. A. W. Koch & W. O. Wegkamp, ‘In dubio pro libertate: over de inzet van het strafrecht voor een rookvrije generatie’, in: A. Tollenaar (ed.), Naar een rookvrije generatie, University of Groningen Press (2024).
W. O. Wegkamp & K. J. de Graaf, AB 2021, 295.
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