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… use of language may result in a dissociation of law from a specific society. Language is a fundamental means to convey messages, to know the law, and to shape the law. On occasions, law is presented in languages that do not correspond to those of the targeted societies. Comparative legal history can attest of such occasions. Similarly to radio frequencies, on such occasions messages were disrupted by “electromagnetic interferences” and did not reach their destination. Comparative legal history can … use of language may result in a dissociation of law from a specific society. Language is a fundamental means to convey messages, to know the law, and to shape the law. On occasions, law is presented in languages that do not correspond to those of the targeted societies. Comparative legal history can attest of such occasions. Similarly to radio frequencies, on such occasions messages were disrupted by “electromagnetic interferences” and did not reach their destination. … Electromagnetic …
… Zoekresultaten 26 oktober 2021 door: P. Balboni in Law I am very pleased that today we will start teaching the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC. Today we will kick off the course with Brian Honan, who will lecture on the concept of … University Faculty of Law. He graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Technology Law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) in 2008. … I am very pleased that today we will start teaching the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC. Today we will kick off the course with Brian Honan, who will lecture on the concept of …
… Zoekresultaten 10 december 2012 As exams are starting all over again, the library and university buildings become more crowded then ever. Finding a quiet study spot is not possible unless you will participate with the early morning German runs. Luckily there are some secret spots in Maastricht … and enough power-plugs available. Kiwi - as most of us are coffee addicts anyway, why don’t you just study in a bar? Kiwi is very spacious and is pretty quiet during the day. This basically applies to all bars in Maastricht, as most of them only start filling up later in the evening or the night. A lot of the bars even start having free Wi-fi, but power-plugs might be a problem. The hospital - when entering the lobby coming from the faculty of Psych you enter a main hall. Take the escalators to the top and discover a vast open area with a lot of tables and chairs …
… Zoekresultaten 13 mei 2018 When a marriage no longer works, you break up. Divorce proceedings are started and if all goes well, both partners can go on to live their own lives. At least, that is how it works with a civil marriage. What kind of problems do women encounter in a religious divorce? For those who have vowed ever-lasting fidelity in a … such as anointing of the sick.” In protestant congregations, the marriage often remains intact as well, because it also has a meaning for the religious congregation. Or take the Jewish faith. Traditionally, the man must offer the divorce letter voluntarily, “he must take the initiative. So, you can imagine what that means for the woman if she no longer wants to be married but he won’t act. Research shows that in liberal Jewish circles in the Netherlands, we do see that with a marriage a document … in the Netherlands, first during a civil marriage ceremony and a month later for the Islamic faith. Things go wrong. She becomes isolated and is abused, she wants a divorce. Her husband refuses to agree to a religious divorce. Eventually, she starts a civil suit based on wrongful act. “He prevents her from getting on with her life.” But taking matters to court is not an option for everyone. Many women are afraid to start proceedings, because of their own safety and that of their children, …
… Zoekresultaten 28 mei 2024 door: A. Parise in Law Codification of different areas of law took the stage in the nineteenth-century. [1] The process of scientific revolution – which had started with the Enlightenment and Humanist Movement and was followed by Rationalistic Natural Law Theorizing – led the way to codification. [2] Several jurisdictions longed to achieve codification of their laws, resulting in a global movement that … The decades that followed the enactments of the first codes showed that these bodies of the law were not able to realize the utopian goal they had been originally envisioned to achieve. Was codification ultimately attaining a dystopian goal? Scholars started to note that there was a dysfunction or relative failure of codification. [10] Codification – as a legal paradigm and global movement – continued to evolve during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, when it mainly experienced processes of revision, de-codification, and re-codification. These three external elements to the codes forced mutations and started to point towards a dystopian goal. The existing literature on these three elements is copious, [11] and proposed definitions follow: Revision is a legislative process that results in the amendment of the text of codes. These amendments in the …
… Zoekresultaten 25 september 2017 The 2017 federal parliamentary election heralds a sharp departure from the post-war consensus. “Things Fall Apart” is the name of a book by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Its title derived from an eponymous poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats which goes as follows. … and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world What happened in Germany yesterday was a certain reminder of that poem. The 2017 federal parliamentary election resulting in another first-place showing for the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), led by sitting Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the Christian Social Union (the CDU’s sister party in the State of Bavaria). However, the CDU/CSU … that deprived the Social Democrats of Whilst their initial announcement to immediately seek the opposition benches is the right conclusion from the erosion, the SPD will have to make hard choices about its future strategy. Will it renew itself and start preparing the ground for a credible centre-left alliance between itself, the Greens and the Left Party. The Social Democrats may wish to look all the way across the Pacific for a winning approach: just one day prior to Germany’s federal election, …
… Zoekresultaten 30 november 2020 door: W.A. Bull C.A.N.M.Y. Cauffman in Law The annual Ius Commune conference and its contract law workshop on “Contract law in times of corona and other sanitary crises”. The yearly Ius Commune conference, this year held online on 26 November 2020, traditionally includes a contract law workshop. This year the theme of the workshop was “Contract law in times of corona and other sanitary crises”. Five researchers presented recent work dealing with subthemes. The first speaker was prof. Marco Loos (UvA). He discussed two very similar cases decided by the same Dutch ADR body (Geschillencommissie Reizen) on 22 respectively 30 … laundering legislation to the professional football sector in the context of the UEFA Research Grant Programme. C.A.N.M.Y. Cauffman … The annual Ius Commune conference and its contract law workshop on “Contract law in times of corona and other sanitary crises”. … Blog Contract law workshop …
… Zoekresultaten 6 april 2021 The implementation of the Unitary Patent Package will represent the result of the evolution towards the unification of the European patent system. Help or hindrance for start-up companies? During the journey towards patent harmonisation in Europe, it is important that the patent system’s regulatory framework addresses the needs of the different market players, including start-ups. Their protection has been designated as one of the main policy objectives of establishing the Unified Patent Court (UPC). Nevertheless, it is not yet clear to what extent the UPC establishment can influence the innovation of start-ups. To …
… Zoekresultaten 9 mei 2017 door: J.C. Hage in Law A little bit of provocation sharpens the mind. Let me therefore start with a provocative thesis: Most lawyers have no idea what law is. Presently almost every lawyer is a legal positivist. Contrary to what some believe, legal positivists are not naïve persons who only recognize black letter law. Legal positivists … Philosophy at Leiden University, where he also defended his PhD-thesis on Law and Meta-ethics (1987: ‘Feiten en betekenis’). He worked at the Leiden law school from 1978 until 1989. … A little bit of provocation sharpens the mind. Let me therefore start with a provocative thesis: Most lawyers have no idea what law is. … Do we know what law is? …
… Zoekresultaten 4 oktober 2019 door: W.A. Bull in Law Case C-80/19 E.E. – Do Latin notaries qualify as ‘courts’ and are they bound by the rules of jurisdiction under the European Succession Regulation? By Katja Zimmermann “What’s in a name?” – William Shakespeare’s famous question readily comes to one’s mind when analysing whether a … of a good year, two requests for a preliminary ruling have been submitted to the CJEU that both concern the classification as a ‘court’ under the European Succession Regulation. In case C-658/17 WB , the Court came to the conclusion that Polish notaries do not qualify as ‘courts’ due to the fact that they do not “exercise […] judicial functions” (para. 61-62). The second case (C-80/19 E.E .), which is still pending before the Court, invites the CJEU to rule on the question whether a Lithuanian notary must be considered as a ‘court’ within the meaning of article 3 (2). It is highly interesting and nota bene highly relevant for legal practice to notice that in opposite to the earlier WB case, the E.E. case goes a step further and explicitly …