Do what is necessary to protect our democratic constitutional state - Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius

The book Do what is necessary to protect our democratic constitutional state contains the complete and annotated text of the fourteenth HJ Schoo lecture that Minister of Justice and Security Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius delivered on Monday, September 12, in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. It is an ardent and personal plea for the preservation of the democratic constitutional state.

When she took office as Minister of Justice and Security in the Rutte IV cabinet, some were critical, as Yeşilgöz-Zegerius is not a lawyer. The fact that the VVD politician had had to flee Turkey with her parents from lawlessness as a child was apparently not considered important. While that is a profound experience, perhaps more important for a Minister of Justice and Security than studying law at a university in the safe Netherlands. In that respect, it is not surprising that Yeşilgöz-Zegerius refers back to that flight from Turkey in her HJ Schoo lecture and uses it as a foundation for her argument.

Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (Ankara, 1977) was a councilor in Amsterdam and became a Member of the House of Representatives in 2017. In the outgoing Rutte III cabinet she was State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate. She has been Minister of Justice and Security since January 10, 2022.

The editors of EW aim to open the political season every year with the HJ Schoo lecture. The lecture, organized by EW , is named after HJ Schoo, the former editor-in-chief of Elsevier , deputy editor-in-chief of de Volkskrant and publisher of Vrij Nederland and Opzij , who died in 2007 at the age of 61.

This paperback has 64 pages and includes an index.