PhD projects
- Maastricht Centre for Human Rights / School of Hum
- Institute for Transnational Legal Research METRO
- Institute for Globalisation and International Regu
- Montesquieu Institute
- Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innova
- the Maastricht Forensic Institute (tMFI)
- European Private Law
- European Public Law
- European Fiscal Law
Maastricht Centre for Human Rights / School of Human Rights research
Research programme Globalisation and Human Rights (1.1)
- State Failure and Human Rights (M. de Groof)
- Corruption and Human Rights (M. Boersma)
- The interface of intellectual property and human rights: Access to medicines for patients in developing countries (J. Sellin)
- A right to a remedy for socio-economic rights (G. Arosemena Solorzano)
- The Universal Periodic Review Mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Value-Added by a Peer Review Process (T. Lewis)
- The impact and effectiveness of human rights state reporting and concluding observations at the domestic level (J. Krommendijk)
* Research programme Criminal Law and criminology in an international context (1.2)
- A comparative research on the mobilisation of criminal law in the combat against terrorism in the United States and Europe (K. Veegens)
- Defences in (international) criminal law (M. Krabbe)
- Comparative research on the regulations governing the conduct of criminal defence lawyers in England and Wales, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands (M. Attinger)
- The Dynamics of Genocide Denial: Denying the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (R. Moerland)
- Mens rea and defences as constituent elements of a general part of criminal law for the European Union (J. Blomsma)
- Actus reus and participation as factors determining criminal liability in a general part of criminal law for the European Union (J. Keiler)
- Legality as a factor determining criminal liability in a general part of criminal law for the European Union (C. Peristeridou)
- Jurisdiction in time and place in a general part of criminal law for the European Union (A-S Massa)
- Scrutinizing the Real Estate Sector: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess and Explain Serious forms of Crime (L. Ritzen)
- The role of a lawyer and impact of legal assistance at police stations in the Netherlands and England and Wales (A. Ogorodova)
- Piracy in the digital environment: understanding the phenomenon, the impact of (legal) responses and the role of human rights (B. Leeuw)
- P.M. (J. Fermon)
Institute for Transnational Legal Research METRO
* Research Programma Liability and Insurance (2.1)
- Punitive damages: suitability for Dutch, French and German tort law (L. Meurkens)
- The liability for asbestos related injuries and the role of experts in a comparative perspective (F. Sobczak)
* Research Programme Transnational Environmental Law (2.2)
- Towards Effective Enforcement of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (L. Tilindyte)
- A European Legal Framework for Nuclear Liability (T. Heldt)
Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR)
* Research Programme Constitutional Processes in the international legal order (Ius Commune) (3.1)
- Independence and Impartiality of the International and European Civil Service: From Hiring to Firing (I. Alexovicova)
- "The Republic of Kosovo and the WTO: On the Road to Accession?" (A. Memeti)
- The Need for an Emergency Safeguard mechanism (ESM) under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): A Developing Country Perspective (D. Ramawati Natakusumah)
- Private-Sector Standards as Technical Barriers to Trade in Goods: In Search of WTO Disciplines (A. Kudryavtsev)
- The protection of core societal values under the WTO GATS; with special emphasis on public health services (N. Mendis)
- Legal Aspects of Accession to the World Trade Organization (with a special reference to the case of I.R. Iran) (S. Amoozeidi)
- How to free and restrain Sovereign Wealth Funds? The role of law in striking a balance (E. Malathouni)
* Research Programme Intellectual property (Ius Commune) (3.2)
- International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Multilateral versus Bilateral/Regional Approaches (A. Moerland)
- Intellectual property piracy, market access and media control in China (R. Creemers)
- P.M. (Shabalala)
Montesquieu Institute
* Research Programme Comparative constitutional and administrative law (Ius Commune) (4.)
- Parliamentary Investigations in a Comparative Perspective (S. Loeffen)
- Positive Obligations in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (R. van de Westelaken)
- The investigative function of the European Parliament (C. Syrier)
- Accountability of Independent Agencies before Parliaments (M. Scholte)
- Parliamentary Immunities (S. Hardt)
- P.M. (P. Bootsma)
- P.M. (M. Zwiers)
Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies (ICGI)
P.M.
the Maastricht Forensic Institute (tMFI)
European Private Law
* Research Programme Contract Law and Law of Obligations in general (Ius Commune) (7.1)
- Representational legitimacy with collective bargaining. A study of the representativeness and independence of trade unions and works councils in the formation of collective employment conditions (B. Schmahl)
* Research Programme Family Law (Ius Commune) (7.2)
- ‘Repudiation or recognition of Islamic divorces in Europe?’ (P. Kruiniger)
- “Private International Law dealing with Marriages Concluded in Pakistan” (K. Chaudhary)
- Corporate Codes of Conduct as an expression of societal constitutionalism and influences of this regime constitution on the private law system (A. Beckers)
- Finding the Roots of Family Law in Europe; A Reaction to National Socialist Family Law? (M. Lenaerts)
* Research Programme Property Law (Ius Commune) (7.3)
- European Property Law: from fragments to a system? Possibilities for harmonising property law in the European Union (E. Ramaekers)
- The right of superficies in comparative perspective (K. Hoofs)
- Contractualization of ownership in civil law systems: A stepping stone for the development of European property law (W. Loof)
- Optional Instruments in the EU (W. Bull)
- Addressing legitimacy concerns of Global Standards used in EU Risk Regulation (S. Wirtz)
* Research Programme Foundations (Ius Commune) (7.4)
- The consequences of contributory negligence for delictual liability in historical perspective (E. van Dongen)
- Cultural values and civil litigation (S. Vacarelu)
- Toward a general theory of juridical acts (H. van der Kaaij)
- The Evolution of Ownership in American Civil Law Jurisdictions: a Melting Pot of European Private Law and Regional Culture (A. Parise)
European Public Law
* Research Programme Judicial Protection and Law Enforcement: the interaction between the national and European dimension (Ius Commune) (8.1)
- From dead letters to living matters: Learning from ‘best practices’ to realize a more uniform application of EU directives (J. Polak)
- Towards an innovative framework for employment protection (N. Büttgen)
* Research Programme Integration, Differentiation and Flexibility: new perspectives on EU law and policy (Ius Commune) (8.2)
- Market integration through 'network governance': the role of European agencies and networks of regulators (M. Zinzani)
- The Horizontal Dimension of General Principles of the EU (M. de Mol)
- P.M. (F. Coman Kund)
- The External Dimension of an EU Migration Policy (K. Eisele)
- The Margin of Appreciation in European Expulsion Decisions (K. Hamenstädt)
- The EU’s response to Mixed Migration movements – policy making at a crossroad between Human Rights or migration management and border control (A.-L. Hardy)
- Regulating the Invisible: Law, Science and Accountability Concerns in the EU Risk Governance of Nanotechnologies (T. Ehnert)
- P.M. (S. Schoenmakers)
European Fiscal Law
* Fiscal issues within the internal market (Ius Commune) (9.)
- The Territoriality Principle in European Tax Law (M. Schaper)
- Allocation of VAT taxing competences among Member States of the EU (F. Nellen)
- Social exemptions under EU VAT legislation – Definitions, applicability, implementation and effectiveness of the social exemptions in VAT (M. Gabriël)
- International Aspects of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) in Europe (T. Albin)
- Making Double Tax Conventions fairer: a proposal on how to adapt the definitions of permanent establishment, controlled foreign corporation and royalties to the interests of developing countries (F. Souza de Man)
