Maurits den Hollander (1994) is a historian. He is assistant professor of legal history at Tilburg University. In 2021, he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on Amsterdam’s insolvency law in the seventeenth century. The commercial edition of this book, Court, Credit, and Capital, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. He has published in, among others, The Legal History Review and the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History. He currently leads the research project 'Professionals and the People' (2023-2029), which analyses the impact of urban administrative officials involved in making and implementing law and policy in late medieval and early modern Dutch cities.