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ECtHR: Fliegenschnee e.a. t. Oostenrijk 18 November 2025, application no 40054/23

On 21 and 22 June 2026, the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence (MCLJ), organised a workshop on the theme ‘The Common Good and the Common Good.’ This workshop was organized around Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira’s Starter Grant. The workshop, in which we were involved as Student Assistants...

ECtHR, Greenpeace Nordic and others v Norway (Licencing petroleum exploration: breach of art 8 ECHR?) 28 October 2025, application no.34068/21

In April 2026 the world witnessed a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. The cruise ship carried many nature enthusiasts and during a bird-watching excursion in Argentina some of them caught the hantavirus, which is caried by infected rodents. Infection of humans happens...

Forced labour remains difficult to detect in garment supply chains, despite the increasing legal weight of companies’ responsibilities to do so. There is a need for novel ways of identifying risks of exploitation. Banks and their data could provide one such avenue.

On 16 and 17 April 2026, the 61^st annual Association of Law Teachers (ALT) Conference took place at the University of Exeter under the theme: ‘Reimagining Legal Education for the Future of Law’. Attending the conference, together with Nicole Kornet, offered a valuable opportunity to engage with a...

Legal education can be enhanced by activating all senses. Object-based learning and problem-based learning proved to be instrumental in that path towards active transfer and creation of knowledge. The inclusion of relevant visuals in books of law can be likewise of help. Readers can benefit, for...

Dear members of the UM community,

The past few months have been busy at the University Council, so I wanted to update the community on some of the things that we have been doing. 

Copyright lawsuits in the US brought by groups of writers, artists, and musicians against AI developers have mainly focused on the AI training stage rather than the output stage. One of the reasons for this focus is that claimants often struggle to demonstrate that AI outputs are copies of original...

Can we trust AI with our financial integrity? With financial crime, the stakes aren't just monetary—they involve the rule of law and the health of our democracy. But in the COMCRIM AI PhD project, we are facing a unique challenge: How do you train a machine to find a needle in a haystack when that...