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‘Technology and Innovation: Challenges for Traditional Legal Boundaries’ Workshop

The 20th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) took place this year in Fukuoka, Japan, between 22-28 July. Apart from bringing together established comparative law scholars from different...

In the case of a violation, the Government can give a warning. Are there any legal consequences? Yes, said one judge. No, said the other. But now they all say: Yes, therefore a warning is a decision. ^{(Only available in Dutch)}

In May 2018 the European Commission presented the plan of a new financial framework for 2021-2027. In which is stated that the European Commission, among other things, aims to make the subsidies which are given to the countries, conditional upon the level at which a member state complies with EU...

Yelling, offensive language, indecent sounds, and to a certain extent even behaviors are being protected as ‘speech’ or as ‘symbolic speech’ by Article 7 of the constitution. If we believe criminal justice is an appropriate instrument, an intervention is only allowed on the part of the national...

No headscarves or other religious expressions in the police, in this way we impair the 'neutral' image associated with the police. ^{(Dutch only)}

Nederland raakt niet uitgepraat over referenda. En dat is niet zo gek, gezien de recente ervaringen uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Spanje en natuurlijk het Oekraïne-referendum. In het regeerakkoord staat dat de Wet raadgevend referendum wordt ingetrokken. Wat moeten we nou van referenda vinden?

‘Follow your heart.’ Anyone who faces an important choice, will undoubtedly hear this advice at times. Trust your gut feeling and everything will be all right. However, very often our intuition is wrong.  ^{(Dutch only)} 

In his decision of September 7th 2017 the State Secretary for Finance approves that under the tax agreements of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates the exemption method is applied. ^{(Dutch only)}

How would a world look like in which judicial decisions would not be taken by judges, but by intelligent machines? Or where, at least, those machines would serve as a crucial decision support for judges – or perhaps even simply law clerks – to take judicial decision?

Towards electronic data exchange within the EU: removing administrative obstacles

The increasingly developed electronic data exchange within the European Union could remove the administrative hurdles to the exercise of the European freedoms of movement and cross-border mobility, such as the life...