Wil Eikelboom specializes in conducting legal proceedings at international human rights organisations, in particular the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. With Liesbeth Zegveld, he won the ECtHR Grand Chamber case of Jaloud v. the Netherlands (2014).

Eikelboom also assists clients in domestic immigration proceedings. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as a legal officer at the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva for five years. Wil Eikelboom speaks Dutch, English, French and German.

Jurisdictions

• Human rights
• Migration
• Public order

Lawyer since

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Additional functions

• Chairman Association of Asylum Lawyers the Netherlands (Vereniging van Asieladvocaten Nederland; VAJN)
• Member of the National Advisory Committee for Legal Assistance for Asylum-seekers and detained aliens (Landelijke Adviescommissie voor de Rechtsbijstand aan Asielzoekers en in bewaring gestelde Vreemdelingen; LARAV)
• Teacher to lawyers and judges (OSR/SSR) Member of the specialist assosicaion SVM 

In the media

• Pauw: Interview over de Afghaanse tolk Ahmadzai (26 September 2014)
• NPO Radio 1, Dit Is De Dag: Interview over de zaak-Zwarte Piet (16 October 2014)
• NOS.nl: 'Nederland faalde in onderzoek naar dode Irakees' (20 November 2014)
• NPO Radio 1, de Ochtend: 'Het jaar van advocaat Wil Eikelboom' (31 December 2014)
• Advocatenblad, ‘Ons kantoor is vast een pain in the ass’, interview (July/August 2015)
• RTL Z, 'De grootste bedreiging voor onze normen en waarden zijn wijzelf', interview (20 January 2017)