Education
Leiden University.
Leiden University.
On 20 March 2015 he became Minister of Security and Justice. He focuses on matters of judiciary, constitutional and administrative law. In both cases he was respectively is also Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) fraction leader.
After graduating from Leiden University, Van der Steur started working as a lawyer at NautaDutilh.
During his professorship at Leiden University, Van der Steur would invited pledges of his former student society Minerva to come to his house to perform handyman jobs and cook for him. On the 17 of December 2015 it came to light that Van der Steur had purposely redacted most of the content of a report detailing the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 investigation, on false basis to cover up his own incompetence during the investigation.
As a member of the People"s Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) he has been an Member of Parliament since 17 June 2010. He was a member of the municipal council of the former municipality of Warmond from 2002 to 2006 and has been a member of its successor the municipal council of Teylingen since 2006. Van der Steur studied law at Leiden University where he was also a member of the Minerva student society.
