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Name-dropping in marketing

11 January 2021

Using the trade mark of someone else to describe how your own products relate to the trademark products is allowed under certain circumstances. Recently, the law changed in this respect, leaving the application of some factors uncertain.
Not crossing the border: recommendation or ban?

16 April 2020
During the Easter weekend there was a lack of clarity about what the rules are at the German-Dutch border. What is actually still allowed when it comes to travelling from the Netherlands to Germany and vice versa? Both the government in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and in the Netherlands have...
by:
- M. Unfried
in General Corona Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Law
$Ambtsmisdrijven van ministers en leden van de Staten-Generaal: klikken uit de commissie stieken: vervolging van fractievoorzitters?$

Judges and politics: the familiar game of musical chairs

23 October 2015
Every once in a while it will pop up again as an argument: a judge may not occupy the seat of a legislator (or politician)... This article is only available in Dutch.
by:
- A.W. Heringa
in Law
What works to make EU law work?

16 October 2015

What works to make EU law work? Or, how can we ensure that EU law is implemented effectively in the member states? I have researched[1] this question by studying the usefulness of instruments that are meant to support national administrations in the application of EU law or that may otherwise be...