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… show why law must have a central place in the big research themes of today. Last week I visited a ‘work conference’ on legal research in the Netherlands. This meeting was organised by the Council of Deans, the platform of deans of the ten Dutch law faculties. We spent an afternoon talking about the state of legal research in the presence of vice-deans for research, the president of the VSNU and the chair of the new NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities (that Law belongs to). There was enough … I therefore made a plea at the meeting that legal academics better show themselves in these societal debates. Of course in the very first place through top research, but also through op-eds, blogs (the Dutch economists do this very well with their website me judice ), possibly with a sector plan, and certainly with a powerful lobby with funding organisations. Legal science itself cannot speak. This is why its spokespeople – all of us – must show how important our discipline is. Read more …
How do we guarantee access to COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, and secure health-related human rights for all? We’ve heard a string of promises in the race for new vaccines and therapies.
“Hopefully COVID-19 will be gone at some point, but tracking technologies may stay for longer and permanently hamper the rights and freedoms of individuals”.
… 2020 to address various structural and behavioural conducts of the so called ‘gatekeepers’, based on a framework entailing certain qualitative/quantitative thresholds, novel remedies and investigatory tools. DMA Proposal has gone through the Parliamentary review ending up with a number of amendments in December 2021 and now is through trialogue between the EU Council, Parliament and Commission. In the UK, the regulatory process has been initiated by the Competition and Market Authority (CMA)’s …
… the incentives that the law provides them with in order to motivate consumers to bring cases against companies violating contract and consumer law, i.e., that consumer receives 50% of the fine imposed on a company if he wins the case. Prof. Franziska Weber from Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam presented an experimental project she has been working on together with Tim Friehe and Leonie Gerhards. In this project, Prof. Weber addresses a very topical yet rather neglected issue that arises when people share their personal data, i.e., when sharing their data, people reveal information not only about themselves but also about third parties (e.g., their friends or family). In other words, a decision that may seem like a decision about our own privacy usually also affects the privacy of others. Prof. Weber wanted to learn whether people care about that, i.e., whether the knowledge that the decision affects the privacy of third parties decreases people’s willingness to share their data. The experimental results revealed that if sharing personal data …
… simple for the almost 39,000 asylum-seeking men, women, and children, among them thousands of unaccompanied children, residing on the Greek Aegean islands. The Greek Council for Refugees and Oxfam, among others, have provided insights into the unsanitary conditions facing asylum seekers on the islands’ ‘hotspots’, where most are accommodated. There is one shower for every 500 people, and one toilet for every 160. To collect their meals, they must queue in line for hours, with hundreds of other … island ‘hotspots’. The first such transfers have taken place, with 12 children relocated to Luxembourg and 47 to Germany. Unlike the previous relocation mechanism that was operational from 2015 to 2017, this is a smaller-scale operation based on voluntary pledges. Other measures include in-kind assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism and additional EU funding of a total of €700 million for the construction of five multi-purpose reception and identification centres on the Greek …
… analogies The arguments made by Lord Hughes are rich in quotable material and besprinkled with funny analogies. One learns, for instance, that “the runner who trips up one of his opponents is unquestionably cheating, but it is doubtful that such misbehaviour would ordinarily attract the epithet ‘dishonest’”; and “[t]he stable lad who starves the favourite of water for a day and then gives him two buckets of water to drink just before the race, so that he is much slower than normal, is also cheating, but there is no deception unless one manufactures an altogether artificial …
… blogpost is based on the chapter ‘EU agencies’ which appears in P. De Bruycker, M. De Somer & J.L. De Brouwer (eds.), From Tampere 20 to Tampere 2.0: Towards a new European consensus on migration (2019). More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: TARN MCEL International and European law Miscellaneous E. Tsourdi Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi is tenured Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre …
Does a little piece of feudalism in property law contribute to sustainability? The addressed topic was delivered by distinguished scholar Prof. dr.
… 2014 door: M.T. Kawakami in Law The Harvard Professor v. The Chinese Restaurant During the first lecture of the popular Comparative Contract Law course here at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, MEPLI’s Jan Smits – the course coordinator – starts off by cautioning the first-year students. He states that when one commences the study of law, they will start seeing the world through “law goggles” where everything and anything we see becomes a potential legal issue: a banana is no longer just … that has received some viral attention highlights this point. The dispute (which has yet to make it to court) is about a Harvard Business School professor (with a BA, JD and PhD all from Harvard) who ordered some Chinese delivery. The restaurant’s website listed an old menu (with cheaper prices), which failed to reflect the increased price on their new menu. This meant that there was a $4 discrepancy between what the professor (who ordered online) expected to pay and what the restaurant charged … law professor who was “cheated” out of $4 and is now on a vigilante crusade against the restaurant) or the “accused” (the family owned Chinese restaurant that is simply trying to make ends meet, but did not have the resources necessary to keep their website constantly up to date). If the dispute goes to court (as the professor threatens in his email), a strict textbook analysis of the case is relatively straightforward: the professor bases his damage claim on Massachusetts General Law, Section XV, …