Jonathan Emanuel Soeharno was born on 27 July 1977 and is a Dutch lawyer, professor, and politician.
21 Facts About Jonathan Soeharno
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Jonathan Soeharno has been working for law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek since 2008 and as a professor at the University of Amsterdam since 2012.
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Jonathan Soeharno served as a member of the Senate on behalf of the Christian Democratic Appeal for four months between 2021 and 2022 as the replacement of Ben Knapen.
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Jonathan Soeharno completed his secondary education on gymnasium level and did not start his higher education for another two years.
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Between 1997 and 2003, Jonathan Soeharno studied theology at Utrecht University followed by five years of legal theory.
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Jonathan Soeharno obtained his doctorate in legal theory from Utrecht University in 2009 after finishing his dissertation titled The Integrity of the Judge: A Philosophical Inquiry.
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Jonathan Soeharno was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge's Pembroke College in 2006.
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Jonathan Soeharno started working as a lawyer for De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam in 2008.
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Jonathan Soeharno initially worked for its finance department, but his focus later shifted to integrity, ESG, human rights, and disciplinary and governance matters.
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Jonathan Soeharno started teaching ethics, judgement, and disciplinary law at the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary the following year, he became a judicial integrity research fellow at Utrecht University's Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and he served as an editor of the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy.
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Jonathan Soeharno's specialty is administration of justice and legal philosophy, and he devoted his inaugural speech to the renewed interest in oaths.
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Jonathan Soeharno remained active as a lawyer and as a teacher for the SSR, and he would later take a job as deputy judge at the commerce chamber of the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch.
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Jonathan Soeharno participated in the 2019 Senate election as the tenth candidate of the CDA.
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Jonathan Soeharno was not elected, as his party won nine seats.
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Jonathan Soeharno remained active in his other positions with the exception of deputy judge.
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Jonathan Soeharno stepped down as senator after 1 February 2022 to allow for the return of Knapen, whose stint as minister had ended due to the swearing in of the fourth Rutte cabinet.
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When Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind was proposing reforms of oversight of the legal profession to parliament, Jonathan Soeharno signed a letter with over twenty others criticizing plans to have a new national regulator operate on behalf of the Netherlands Bar.
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Jonathan Soeharno was placed tenth on the party list, but the CDA received only six seats.
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Jonathan Soeharno holds and has held several positions next to his job.
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Jonathan Soeharno has been chair of the advisory board of the Protestant Theological University, the supervisory board of the Ronald McDonald Kinderfonds, and the supervisory board of the Centre for Organisational Integrity.
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Jonathan Soeharno has been a member of the Loorbach Committee, which advised the Netherlands Bar on changes to its code of conduct; the Disciplinary Court of Appeal for Lawyers ; Radboud University's supervisory board ; the Dutch Securities Institute's disciplinary committee ; the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds's advisory committee on grants ; and a committee advising the government on Article 57 of the Constitution.