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Soon I will host a champagne toast in honour of our employees who have given 25 or 40 years of service. These are the happy days in the life of an administrator, you see. It has only been since last year that we’ve been able to honour people who have served 40 years.
… pre-trial nature. Third, since this case falls outside the realm of the Directive – and thus EU law – the Charter is not applicable (Article 51). Articles 6 and 47 of the Charter cannot be invoked ad hoc, as there is no application of EU law. Commentary The Court in DK confirms the European Union legislator’s view on the presumption of innocence being a thin, limited concept. The Directive on the presumption of innocence had little ambition, putting forward a minimalistic presumption. To this … manner. The Court draws the strength of its arguments from the grammatical reading of the Directive as provided by AG Pitruzzella. According to the latter, while some provisions of the Directive cover trial and pre-trial measures alike, others target exclusively trial measures. This is extracted from references made in Article 4 (public references to guilt) to all ‘judicial decisions’ other the one on guilt. An all-encompassing notion is surely not repeated by Article 6 (burden of proof) and … could not easily provide new circumstances to challenge his detention. Having said that, an (additional) argument including the presumption of innocence (Article 48 Charter) would have been stronger. This is confirmed by the Opinion, as AG Pitruzzella groups Articles 47 and 48 together although no reference to Article 48 was made by the referring court. In spite of these inconsistencies, the Court’s way of dealing with the interpretation of the Charter is bizarrely introvert. With a few laconic …
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… relations. As a child, I had a big map of the world hanging above my bed. Before going to sleep, I would trace my little index finger over the coloured paper from country to country. Being a mixed-race person, whose family is the result of involuntarily migration, means I have always looked beyond the lines the country written in my passport consists of. My parents left their homes in the late eighties of past century. They met in a for them foreign country’s small-city guest house where both …
… emphasised that there may be a bleak future for Dutch academia if not more funds are made available for fundamental work – as Germany, Sweden and Finland have been doing in the last few years. This plea must be taken very seriously. Also Dutch law faculties are increasingly dependent on outside funding, leading to a tendency to do more ‘applied’ research and leave fundamental questions – for which money is often more difficult to find – aside. But this does not only mean that universities should … in five or ten years time. They will need to develop new ‘business models’ of financing research and teaching based on clear choices about the things they want to achieve. In my view, this discussion should be at the centre of attention in Dutch law faculties. Labels: mepli research policy J.M. Smits … The high position of Dutch universities is a small wonder in view of the ever-decreasing public funds available for fundamental research. … Dijkgraaf, Clevers and Rutte, or: on how to finance …
Comparative law and multiculturalism can evolve together in the classroom at schools of law and result in a fruitful combination. Their interplay should be encouraged.
… using the university’s infrastructure and research orientation – in this case the research tasks students must complete as part of their skills course – to contribute to the production of open-source knowledge to be disseminated online through the website of the Land Portal Foundation. ‘This is an incredible opportunity to link education and society; the work of the Land Portal Foundation, of making legal information more transparent and more accessible, is a great context in which meaningful …
There is value in reflecting on the impact that Covid-19 has on legal education. A first reflection relates to the fact that many state that Covid-19 invites for virtual teaching.