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… philosophy in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Europe. Throughout my career, I have held a wide variety of roles, including Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs and Acting Dean of UCM. I also chair the Ethical Research Committee for the Inner City Faculties and was a member of the development team for the BSc in Global Studies. As chair, it is my ambition to make the University Council a forum for meaningful conversations about the kind of institution we want to be and how we want to respond to … May 31, the council dealt with several important topics. Firstly, the council approved the new UM Allocation model. This is the internal system for distributing the funding the university receives from the government for research and teaching to the faculties and service centres. This needs to be updated from time to time, to reflect changes in the structure of the university, such as the creation of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and to take into account developments like increasing … the representative process at our university. If you have any thoughts about this you’d like to share, you are always welcome to get in touch with me at: chair-ucouncil@maastrichtuniversity.nl . If you’d like to know more about the council, visit our website . Best Wishes from the University Council , Teun Dekker Labels: University Council T.J. Dekker Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students …
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… confirming that more forums have open and hence more student views and approaches are being heard. A second strength is that SL Reviews offer a laboratory for academic writing. Academic writing is an art. It is like playing the violin. Virtuosos start to play violin before adolescence. The same should happen with academic legal writing. The earlier students start to engage in this type of writing, the sooner they will gain the needed skills. SL Reviews offer a laboratory to actively write and to actively edit. Students can find in a SL Review a place to learn to build a legal argument; to analyse a court …
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… the agreement to gradually move away from fossil fuels altogether has been marked by i.a. the Washington Post as possibly ‘the most important global climate moment since the 2015 Paris Agreement’ and praised by the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary in his COP28 closing speech . The weak language adopted at COP28 reflects the countries’ awareness of the gigantic complexities related to shifting away from fossil fuels when our entire economies and lives have been heavily depending on it for … in its international trade and investment policies Considering itself a global forerunner in climate action, the EU has indeed an impressive record in proposing and adopting measures aimed at combating the climate change. As proudly sharing on its website, by delivering the European Green Deal the EU intends to become the first climate neutral continent. A closer look at the EU’s policies, in particular in the field of international trade and investment , however, reveals the EU’s lack of … compliance with i.a. the Paris Agreement, has also been put forward for consideration to (a large number of) states that participate in the global discussions on the reform of investor-state arbitration conducted under the auspices of UNCITRAL Working Group III. It shows the states’ awareness that an express carve-out may indeed be a safe way to go. It should be noted that new investment treaties already contain various exceptions justifying breaches of investors’ rights by state (regulatory) …
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… it hard to lie) and are very good at single-tasking. Treatment is not possible for intellectual disabilities: our genes define whether we are born with it or not. Research shows that adaptations in cognitive-behavioural therapy works for this client group. Other trends in mental health care show that a multidisciplinary plan works the best. Elements of this plan are: Reinforce the social network, If the social network is not able to take care of the disabled person, then find a safe living place …
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… effectiveness and profitability while satisfying their customers expectations. In the light of this, for companies it has become difficult and expensive to produce their needs on their own (Gunasekaran, Patel and Tirtiroglu, 2001); therefore they started looking for suppliers to work co-operatively in providing improved service, technological innovation and product design (Gunasekaran, Patel and McGaughey, 2004). In addition to the above-mentioned internal motives, the development of SCM is also … that could be used for assessing the performance of a supply chain. This framework is useful because on the one hand it presents the metrics that are mostly considered by literature and practitioners; on the other hand, the metrics/measures are grouped according to the level of management to which they refer (i.e. Strategic; Tactical; and Operational) and the four major supply chain activities/processes (i.e. Plan; Source; Make/Assemble; and Deliver). The framework is provided below: …
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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 …
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… Zoekresultaten 25 april 2018 door: A. Unknown in Law On 19 April 2018, professors, PhD researchers and students from more than four different faculties, departments and institutes at the Maastricht University gathered for the first official “Legal Data (LeD) community initiative”. The event consisted of a speed date, where all participants could introduce themselves and their fields of …
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Maastricht Law Student Research Prize 2012 – an essay competition aimed at encouraging high-level research amongst our student body.
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… 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 …
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… can adapt to better suit the needs of future lawyers, Smits lists two alternatives to the doctrinal framework (liberal law education and legal engineering method) and calls for the continuing differentiation of legal education methods. This commentary will summarize Smits’ arguments, while incorporating my personal take on his arguments, which is that law schools need not only to balance the interest of the academic community and that of the practitioners, but must also take into consideration … Legal Education requirements for practicing lawyers literally continue so long as they remain in practice), but that legal education in America costs an arm and a leg (and then some). This concern over costs leads us to the main point of this commentary, which is that teaching the law is a business, not just in the US, but elsewhere as well. This means the law schools not only need to balance the interest of the academic community and the demands of legal practice (while managing societal … argue that the Dutch law schools should simply emulate the American legal education, at least not in substance. To do so would directly contradict Smits’ point regarding the diversification of legal education and that is not the intent of this commentary. But perhaps as a business model, the Dutch universities can emulate a few business strategies from its American counterparts by slightly adjusting their admission practices or by enhancing their reliance on alumni networks to generate capital. …