Dear members of the UM community,
After a long summer, the University Council has kicked off the new year. We started with our traditional council day, during which we introduced the new student members of the University and Faculty Councils, as well as the new members of the Service Councils, to the...
For more than seventy-five years, one rule has governed the Road Runner cartoons: Wile E. Coyote orders some ingenious contraption from ACME, activates it, and watches it turn against him. The rocket skates overshoot. The catapult fires the wrong way. The anvil obeys gravity with suspicious...
Human trafficking is too often studied only at its endpoint, namely at the peak of its most lucrative sexual exploitation, while its business model and damage to the rule of law go underexamined. A recent seemingly Tate-'influenced' Dutch criminal case shows why that needs to change.
Naturvårdsverket v UQ and Naturvårdsverket v IC (Joined Cases C-221/24 and C-222/24)
C-629/23 MTÜ Eesti Suurkiskjad v Keskkonnaamet
OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL (compatibility of a national carbon tax with EU law / EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System), 9 October 2025, Case C519/24.
ECtHR: Fliegenschnee e.a. t. Oostenrijk 18 November 2025, application no 40054/23
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...
