Jens van den Brink
Jens van den Brink started his career as an attorney in 2000,
after having studied law at the University of Amsterdam, King’s
College London and Columbia University in New York, and having
studied French in Nice.
Jens is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Media
department, where he heads the media group. He specializes in
media litigation. His main areas of expertise are free speech
(defamation and privacy), copyright law, internet law, image
rights, advertising law, games of chance and media law.
Jens recently defended film production company IDTV in
two injunction
proceedings that were brought against the
movie ‘the Heineken Kidnapping’ by the kidnappers of beer-tycoon
Alfred Heineken. He acted for artist
Nadia Plesner against Louis Vuitton in a
case concerning the freedom to incorporate symbols into art, for
Dutch broadcaster Vara’s TV guide in a satire case and for a
municipal councilor who exposed a
corruption affair in the city of Delft and
was sued for defamation. He also recently represented media such
as Dutch national newspapers
de Volkskrant,
Het Parool and
Spits!, broadcasters KRO, MTV and PowNed,
Dutch blog
GeenStijl and magazines such as Elsevier and
HP De Tijd.
Jens regularly teaches courses on media law, press law, internet
law and intellectual property law. He is a guest lecturer at
Erasmus University Rotterdam
(Post
academic Newspaper Journalism course), the University of
Groningen
(Master Journalism), VU University Amsterdam
(Post academic Internet Law course), the
School for Journalism (Utrecht) and the Media Academy
(Hilversum).
Jens is co-author of
the International Libel & Privacy Handbook
(Bloomberg, 2009), the
Press Law Chronicle 2006-2009 (Mediaforum,
2009-10), the
Press Law Chronicle 2009-2011 (Mediaforum,
2011-5), and editor-in-chief of the media law blog
Media
Report.
Recommended in:
Legal 500 EMEA 2012
"Jens van den Brink is ‘an outstanding lawyer in the field of
media law and defamation; very experienced and up to date’. The
team successfully represented artist Nadia Plesner in proceedings
brought by Louis Vuitton."
Chambers Europe 2012
"Jens van den Brink earns much praise for his work on
defamation and privacy matters. Clients pick out his up-to-date
knowledge of new and social media as a particular
strength."