[2][3] Stolker finished high school at Bonaventura College in Leiden.

In his book Van arts naar advocaat (1989) Stolker looked at the medical liability crisis in the United States in comparison to the Dutch situation.

In 1996 he became director of the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies at Leiden University and in 2001 became a member of the executive board of the law school, in charge of research.

[1] In that capacity he straightened out a long lasting dispute between former criminologist Wouter Buikhuisen and Leiden University.

In 2012, a one-year sabbatical was devoted to the writing of a book about law schools – a comparative analysis of legal education, legal scholarship, and the different approaches of law schools worldwide.