From hip-hop to Victor Hugo, and historical fiction to classic cinema: What do these things have in common with the study of law, you might think? At Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, a growing group of researchers and students is exploring exactly that and even more.
Thanks to the SURF Incentive Scheme for Open and Online Education (still available at the time), Gwen Noteborn (university lecturer in personal and family law at Maastricht University), Claudia Hocks and Janneke Hendrix (lecturers in law at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences) were able to get...
Two Law PhD candidates of the Maastricht Faculty received awards for their doctoral theses during the 21st International Congress of the International Association of the Penal Law in Paris.
The UM team came second in the Grand Final of the 12th edition of the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition, which took place at the European Court of Human Rights.
What is it like, being the first generation to go to university? We are talking about this topic with various UM students. Joy Osadebawem Daniel from Luxembourg is one of them. Her parents, originally from Nigeria, didn’t always have an easy time after arriving in Luxembourg. But they taught Joy an...
EU immigration and asylum law are plagued by disharmony and dysfunction. Lilian Tsourdi, assistant professor of International and European Law, is investigating how to improve the situation.
The Consul Association has jointly decided to award a prize (value: 1000 euro) for the best master thesis in the field of EU law, written at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University during the academic year 2022/2023. The Prize will be awarded to the student who wrote a thesis of outstanding...
The consultation round on the upcoming ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2023 has been launched! Grab the opportunity to share your experiences with ITEM! Dossier suggestions can be made up to and including 7 March 2023.
Professor of Clinical Chemistry Yvonne Henskens has prepared for this interview by laying out her most important cookbooks and whipping up a fig cake with eggs from her own chickens. “I prefer to make everything myself: bread, cheese, mayonnaise. I want to know how it works—in that sense I’m still a...
What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters your lung? This molecular animation visualises how the virus particle can take over the host cell and turns it into a virus factory. Eventually, the host cell produces so many viral particles that it dies and releases numerous new virus particles.
