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… degree of freedom to students. But the students here really make the most of it. How I got to the MSP I am a professor of paleontology and evolution. I am originally from the Maastricht area, although it has been a long time since I lived here. I started my university career in Utrecht where I studied geology. Then I went to Canada to do research on dinosaurs. After that, I went to Harvard University in the US where I continued my studies in paleontology and got a PhD in in biology. I then … is highly successful and has been growing steadily. It is a fantastic moment to take stock. I think one of the best ways to do that is by finding out as much as I can, from every different perspective. It has been great talking to our diverse group of students. They have invaluable insights into which aspects of the programme are working well, things we might be missing, and what can be improved. Together with students and staff, we brainstorm about the possibilities for the future. We are …
![Bacteria blog Kristel de Smedt](/sites/default/files/2023-03/bacteria-blog-kristel-de-smedt_mlr.jpg)
… Faure and Marjolein van Asselt, Christine Neuhold and Esther Versluis (CERiM). The consortium is composed of 11 partners, representing all geographical regions of Europe. The consortium brings together academic expertise from three leading academic groups in the field of the precautionary principle (from Maastricht University, University of Bergen, and Humboldt-University Berlin), three major European players in Technology Assessment (Rathenau Institute, the Danish Board of Technology and the …
![Blog Manfred Nowak Human Rights](/sites/default/files/2023-03/blog-manfred-nowak_mlr.png)
… organization with true universal membership. Its principles, such as sovereign equality of all member states, peaceful settlement of international disputes and, for the first time in human history, the prohibition of the threat or use of military force, already assumed the universality of the United Nations when it was founded. The process of decolonization as one of the major achievements of the world organization during the Cold War was of critical importance for achieving a genuine … Customary international law, ius cogens and erga omnes obligations symbolize the major sources of universal international law. In addition, some international treaties, such as the UN Charter, the four Geneva Conventions on international humanitarian law, the Convention on the Rights of the Child or the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women are ratified today by almost all sovereign states. Certain crimes, such as piracy, terrorism, torture, genocide and … water and ecological crises, including a dangerous level of climate change. Undermining and minimizing the role of states further resulted in many failed and fragile states, where powerful non-state actors, including warlords, armed and terrorist groups could gain influence and control. Most importantly, neoliberal economic policies have led to unprecedented economic inequality between and within states which is undermining the social contract and coherence of societies and the values of …
![Nature-reserve blog genocide Tutsi](/sites/default/files/2023-03/nature-reserve-blog-genocide-tutsi_mlr.jpeg.jpg)
… discussed during a recent commemorative conference in the Peace Palace. Genocide against the Tutsi On the 17 th of April 1994, Romeo Dallaire of UNAMIR sent a cable to the U.N. in New York describing how civilians belonging to the Tutsi ethnic group were executed on the spot at roadblocks that were set up in Rwanda’s capital Kigali. The military, militias and armed civilians did the killing, and it was part of an orchestrated effort by powerful Hutu extremists to wipe out the entire Tutsi population. The victims were innocent men, women and children and they were killed only because they …
![Blog Fake news, algorithms and democracy protection](/sites/default/files/2023-03/fake-news-algorithms-and-democracy-protection_-blog-maja_mlr.jpg)
… in the European society. Fake news as a threat to democracy The threat to democracy and fundamental rights in Europe is caused mainly by raising amounts of disinformation during electoral periods, brisk spreading of information through social media, targeting of vulnerable parts of population and (technical) difficulties in recognising their fake nature. Even though the detrimental effects of such misleading online content on democratic values of the European society are not disputed, the … diverse. On the one hand, the EU is hesitant towards immediate regulatory solutions and currently fosters self-regulatory approaches as pointed out in the Commission Communication on tackling online disinformation , the Report of the High-level Group on Online Disinformation and the a non-binding Code of Practice . On the other hand, recent German legislation aimed at combating manipulative information divided public opinion as to its effectiveness, likelihood of internet censorship and … its removal. In the above-mentioned Commission Communication (p. 7-8), removal or blocking of disinformation does not appear among the objectives of tackling such disinformation. Since this field remains to be largely self-regulated – save for voluntary and non-binding acts such as EU Code of Practice – platforms have adopted various approaches towards combatting disinformation. These range from deploying (human or artificial) fact-checkers, flagging of disinformation, surrounding disinformation …
![Update Brexit blog October 2018](/sites/default/files/2023-03/update-brexit-blog-october-2018_mlr.jpg)
… Indeed, in the corridors of power in Westminster, it resembles a dark art and is more akin to a blood sport than a gentlemanly or ladylike endeavour. The preferred weapons of choice are, thankfully, not bullets, but speeches, white papers and parliamentary whipping. Nonetheless, the sting of defeat is always around the corner, just a few errant (or intended) votes away from inflicting the pain of irrelevance and oblivion upon those wielding power. Prime Minister Theresa May is currently at the cusp of becoming the latest victim of the palace intrigues enveloping her party. Ever since she called the 2017 general election and subsequently lost the Conservative Party’s parliamentary majority in the House of Commons, the whiff of weakness, instability and indecisiveness has been following her around. Tragically, this is making itself felt rather clearly on the one issue that has been capturing the British public’s … riven about the type of Brexit that it prefers. Quite obviously, this is also the result of lacking a strategy from Day 1. The Prime Minister’s weakness has also made it possible for the faction around Rees-Mogg, the so-called European Research Group to become a critical mass to sabotage the Prime Minister’s desire to pursue a reasonably close relationship with the EU. The ERG was responsible for an amendment to the customs bill that stipulated that Northern Ireland could never form part of a …
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… Law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University) and I had the pleasure of organizing one of the eight workshops, titled ‘Technology and Innovation: Challenges for Traditional Legal Boundaries’. The workshop covered discussions on 23 papers, which we grouped around 6 different themes: Privacy and Data Protection; Media Law and Free Speech; Challenges in Intellectual Property; Online Platforms; Business Law, Blockchain & RegTech, and AI Law. Young scholars from around the world were in attendance … Development Marta Infantino and Weiwei Wang (University of Trieste) – Algorithmic Torts: A Prospective Comparative Overview Mateusz Piątkowski (University of Lodz) – The Future of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in the Light of International Humanitarian Law Markus Naarttijärvi (Umeå University) – Technological Obscurity and Qualitative Legality Originally posted on Mepli.eu More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: Technology and Innovation data protection Comparative Law Andere blogs: …
![Blog about Bob Dylan and Law_But to live outside the law you must be honest_Maastricht University](/sites/default/files/2023-03/bob-dylan-and-law_but-to-live-outside-the-law-you-must-be-honest_mlr.jpg)
… Dylan’s body of work has become a more respectable pursuit, no doubt assisted by Dylan’s acquisition of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. “But to live outside the law you must be honest...” Perhaps the most infamous ‘Dylanologists’ was Alan J. Weberman, who allegedly spent time in the 1970s rifling through Dylan’s household rubbish to find evidence to support his spurious theory that Dylan was a heroin addict. Though I cannot deny being a Dylan obsessive, I can at least assure you that I … ties” Dylan takes a cynical (realistic) view of law as an instrument, which is malleable in fallible and often malevolent human hands. The law is also portrayed as a mystifying mask, justifying the exercise of what is otherwise naked power by one group over another. Take, for instance, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (1964), a song in which Dylan decries the then recent injustice of a wealthy white man receiving a mere six-month prison sentence for the manslaughter of a black waitress in … and that the courts are on the level And that the strings in the books ain’t pulled and persuaded And that even the nobles get properly handled Once that the cops have chased after and caught ’em And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom Stared at the person who killed for no reason Who just happened to be feelin’ that way without warnin’ And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance William Zanzinger with a six-month …
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… a 30 percent chance of not being exposed to inhumane treatment. A combination of reasons explains how tort law can produce such outcomes : First , the individual protection paradigm requires a focus on the interests of individual plaintiffs (or groups of legally comparable plaintiffs). This is why the court distinguished between various types of victims (e.g. those who were on the compound on or after 13 July 1995, those who were not on the compound before or on that date) and different … to the full amount of damages. Third , tort law defines wrongs and losses in a particular way. The damages that some of the plaintiffs will receive are damages for pain and suffering due to the inhumane treatment of their relatives. Awarding monetary compensation for pain and suffering is common in tort law. Relief that consists of obliging the State to take responsibility for its military decisions and for the State withholding information and evidence are, however, not. Such needs are not recognized as legally relevant interests and are consequently neither claimed by plaintiffs nor ordered by courts. Cases like the Srebrenica …
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… the research shows, with a stunning degree of accuracy, that the outcomes of cases can indeed be predicted. However, while this type of case prediction might have practical and theoretical value for the common law system following the doctrine of stare decisis , it is less clear how such case prediction would work in civil law jurisdictions where judges rely almost exclusively on legislation and where potential discrepancies between judgments of different (or even the same!) courts are much more … does not mean, that I absolutely reject possibility of the use of intelligent machines in judicial decision-making. To the contrary. Nevertheless, the use of AI in this process should be limited to what a machine can do: analyse, mine the text, group similar decisions and arguments, make legal predictions on the bases of analysis of former cases – in other words, help the judge not to overlook a provision, a precedent or an argument. But the decision itself, embedded in the interpretation and …