Dutch Law Institute

What Dutch Law Institute does

The Dutch Law Institute (Stichting Dutch Law Institute) is an independent, non-profit foundation established in 2021 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It operates dutch-law.com as a comprehensive English-language guide to Dutch law covering four core areas: contract law, employment law, litigation and arbitration, and the Dutch legal profession. The platform serves international businesses operating in or with Dutch counterparties, individuals seeking legal representation in the Netherlands, and foreign lawyers seeking information about Dutch law and qualification requirements. The Institute is edited by Jan Willem de Groot, a Dutch lawyer with over 40 years of practice, and the website is available in English, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch.

The Institute's product and service offering comprises the Dutch Law Guide website, a free Statutory Interest Calculator under Dutch Civil Code articles 6:119 and 6:119a, annual independent editorial rankings of leading Dutch lawyers across more than a dozen practice areas (contract, corporate, M&A, IP, ICT, immigration, family, divorce, dismissal, labour, employment litigation, and business law), legal advisory services on Dutch contract, employment, and civil litigation matters, and educational events including lectures and seminars. The underlying technology is a standard content website without proprietary platform architecture, no APIs, no AI integrations, and no published software.

The business model is non-commercial. The Institute is a Dutch foundation (stichting) with a voluntary, uncompensated board and does not publicly disclose pricing, revenue, or customer relationships. Distribution is entirely content-led through the dutch-law.com website, with secondary reach via media commentary and organized events. There is no external investment, no parent company, and no acquisitions; the organization operates as a single independent entity with 1–10 employees.

Name

Dutch Law Institute

Legal name

Stichting Dutch Law Institute

Website

https://dutch-law.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Dutch Law Institute is an independent, non-profit Amsterdam-based foundation that publishes dutch-law.com, a multilingual English-language guide to Dutch contract law, employment law, litigation, and the Dutch legal profession, serving international businesses, individuals, and foreign lawyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Information Services

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), All Other Legal Services (541199), Offices of Lawyers (54111)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJACAA

Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Professional & Legal Publishing (Standards, Compliance, Reference)

SECONDARYEDAGAGAB

Legal Reference (Statutes, Case Law, Practice Guides)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

SECONDARYEDAGAFAG

Law & Legal Studies Scholarly Publishing

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

SECONDARYEDAGABAH

Law & Legal Studies

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Higher Education Textbooks & Courseware

Keywords

• Legal information publishing
• Dutch contract law
• Dutch employment law
• Lawyer rankings
• Legal advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Dutch Law Institute publishes dutch-law.com, a comprehensive English-language online guide covering Dutch contract law, employment law, litigation and arbitration, and the Dutch legal profession. It independently ranks leading Dutch lawyers across more than a dozen practice areas and provides a free statutory interest calculator. The Institute also offers legal advisory services on Dutch contract law, employment law, and civil litigation, and organises lectures and seminars.

Product overview

The Dutch Law Institute operates dutch-law.com as a comprehensive English-language legal information platform, supported by its core publication (the Dutch Law Guide), a statutory interest calculator tool, and published rankings of Dutch lawyers. The Institute also provides advisory services and educational events. The offering is a single unified platform with multiple content and service layers rather than a modular product architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• The Legal 500: Independent legal ranking publication covering law firm performance and individual lawyer recognition across multiple jurisdictions, including the Netherlands. Closely comparable to the Institute's annual rankings product.
• Chambers and Partners: Publisher of independent lawyer and law firm rankings across dozens of practice areas globally, including the Netherlands. Closely comparable in the rankings and lawyer-discovery function, though operating at much greater scale and across many countries.
• Legal Intelligence Netherlands: Dutch legal ranking and intelligence platform with annual rankings of leading Dutch law firms and lawyers across practice areas. Most directly comparable peer given its specific Dutch-jurisdiction rankings focus.

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis: Global legal information and analytics provider with extensive primary law, case law, and practitioner content, including Dutch jurisdiction coverage. Comparable as an English-language legal information publisher, but with broader international scope and paid-platform distribution.
• Ius Commune Rechtspraak (via Kluwer): Kluwer's Dutch legal publishing arm covering case law, statutes, and practitioner commentary in the Netherlands. Comparable as a Dutch-focused legal publisher, though owned by a much larger group and operating on a paid subscription model.
• Practical Law (Thomson Reuters): Practical Law is a Thomson Reuters service providing practice notes, precedents, and current-awareness content for lawyers across many jurisdictions. Comparable as an English-language, jurisdiction-focused legal know-how publisher, though much larger and broader.
• Wolters Kluwer: Dutch-based global publisher of legal, regulatory, tax, and compliance information with deep Dutch law content via Kluwer Law International. Directly comparable as a Dutch-headquartered legal publisher, but operates at vastly larger scale and across many jurisdictions.

Emerging players

• Lexology: Global legal content network aggregating articles from law firms across jurisdictions, including Dutch firms. Comparable as an English-language aggregator and distribution channel for Dutch law content, though without the Institute's editorial rankings layer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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