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On 3 July Sarah Schoenmaekers and Tongle Si organized the conference ‘Public Procurement: A key tool to reach sustainability in Europe and beyond’. The conference was a great success and led to engaging discussions and lively debates among presenters and participants, fulfilling its purpose of being...

Academic life entails walking a path in which we can learn and help others learn. It is a two way road, where awareness of roles and of the impact of our actions is fundamental. A question tends to emerge in that academic path: to what extent is it possible to speak of the existence of academic...

AI needs to have access to huge amounts of data in order to be trained. In this article, I discuss the need for suitable text- and data mining exceptions in copyright law that stimulate AI development as well as enable human authors and creators to still earn a revenue. 

This blog post is part of a series reflecting on the panel discussions held during the conference "Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate", which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University on June 20 and 21, 2024. This panel focused on Institutional...

This blog post is part of a series reflecting on the panel discussions held during the conference "Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate", which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University on June 20 and 21, 2024. This panel addressed inequality and...

This blog post is part of a series reflecting on the panel discussions held during the conference "Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate", which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University on June 20 and 21, 2024. This panel discussed Environmental...

This blog post is part of a series reflecting on the panel discussions held during the conference "Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate", which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University on June 20 and 21, 2024. This panel covered issues related to...

The conference “Between narratives and reality: The EU at the gates of a new mandate” which took place at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University on the 20 and 21 of June 2024, was the closing event of a series of initiatives that revolved around the European elections.

Mark Kawakami examines the complexities of the EU's Consumer Rights Directive (CRD) and its unintended environmental impacts 

Dear members of the UM Community,

The end of the academic year is always a busy period; on the one hand, projects that have been in the works for a long time must be completed, while, on the other hand, preparations for future years need to be made. And all of this is happening in a volatile...