Latest blog articles

  • Name-dropping in marketing

    Using the trade mark of someone else to describe how your own products relate to the trademark products is allowed under certain circumstances. Recently, the law changed in this respect, leaving the application of some factors uncertain.

    Name dropping in marketing - trademark
  • Making the UM greener is not easy. But I want to help.

    Blog by UCM-student Svea Grünkorn about Green Impact.


    The Green Impact programme first crossed my mind when I saw a picture of the frog “Kermit” being circulated within the university. Teams of the UM-wide Green Impact programme were trying to steal the stuffed animal from one another whereby they...

    Green Impact Maastricht University
  • US Supreme Court orders the Gay-Marriage

    Last Friday, in Obergefell et al v. Hodges the United States Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote held that same-sex couples may exercise the right to marry in all US States. President Obama, a fervent supporter and promotor of the gay-marriage and gay rights, decided to light up the White House as a rainbow...

    white house law blogs