# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-smits
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:34.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-smits"
name: "Jan Smits"
slug: "jan-smits"
description: "Jan M. Smits is a Dutch law professor. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, where he is also professor of private law."
tagline: "Dutch legal scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Smits.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.805652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/janmsmits"
    handle:    "janmsmits"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/persons/2ea88a26-567e-4ba9-a6a1-f08c900ef8b1"
sources:
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    title: "جان سميتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smits"
    title: "Jan Smits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smits_(rechtsgeleerde)"
    title: "Jan Smits (rechtsgeleerde)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "جان اسمٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "杨斯密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump