Willem Johannes Witteveen ( ; 5 May 195217 July 2014 ) was a Dutch legal scholar , politician , and author . He was a law professor at Tilburg University ( 1990 – 2014 ) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party ( 1999 – 2007 ; 2013 – 2014 ) . He was also the author of several books about law and politics . Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on , Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , was shot down over eastern Ukraine
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
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