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Last Friday the University celebrated its 43rd birthday. This was a wonderful and festive event for both the University and the Faculty. Four students received a prize for their thesis and Prof. Monica Claes presented Michael Ignatieff with a honorary doctorate.
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On 16 December 2018, I had the pleasure of visiting the home town of my late Italian grandfather, a small hilltop community called Pollenza, in the lesser known region of Le Marche.
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Over the years, I have heard various colleagues say they thought empirical legal research (ELR) has been on the rise. Some see this as a positive development, making law and legal research more evidence-based and diverse.
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2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily life.
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Technological innovation and law have always made a good pair - as society evolves, so do (some of) our legal needs.
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Dowsing is the ability to detect the source of things. Dowsing for a source of legal ideas must start at an early stage in academic life, when students write their first legal papers.
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Imagine you, a researcher, are given a bag of money, unlimited time and personnel. What research would you do?
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At the annual Faculty awayday the new Faculty Innovation Prize was awarded. This brings a new tradition to life.
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This is a brief analysis of Facebook’s data sharing practices under unfair competition rules in the US and EU.
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Van Vliet emphasises: looted art is legally very complex. “The cases are terribly complicated. To begin with, how do you find out what happened back then?