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ECtHR: Fliegenschnee e.a. t. Oostenrijk 18 November 2025, application no 40054/23

On 21 and 22 June 2026, the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence (MCLJ), organised a workshop on the theme ‘The Common Good and the Common Good.’ This workshop was organized around Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira’s Starter Grant. The workshop, in which we were involved as Student Assistants...

ECtHR, Greenpeace Nordic and others v Norway (Licencing petroleum exploration: breach of art 8 ECHR?) 28 October 2025, application no.34068/21

Forced labour remains difficult to detect in garment supply chains, despite the increasing legal weight of companies’ responsibilities to do so. There is a need for novel ways of identifying risks of exploitation. Banks and their data could provide one such avenue.

On 16 and 17 April 2026, the 61^st annual Association of Law Teachers (ALT) Conference took place at the University of Exeter under the theme: ‘Reimagining Legal Education for the Future of Law’. Attending the conference, together with Nicole Kornet, offered a valuable opportunity to engage with a...

Legal education can be enhanced by activating all senses. Object-based learning and problem-based learning proved to be instrumental in that path towards active transfer and creation of knowledge. The inclusion of relevant visuals in books of law can be likewise of help. Readers can benefit, for...

Copyright lawsuits in the US brought by groups of writers, artists, and musicians against AI developers have mainly focused on the AI training stage rather than the output stage. One of the reasons for this focus is that claimants often struggle to demonstrate that AI outputs are copies of original...

Can we trust AI with our financial integrity? With financial crime, the stakes aren't just monetary—they involve the rule of law and the health of our democracy. But in the COMCRIM AI PhD project, we are facing a unique challenge: How do you train a machine to find a needle in a haystack when that...

On Thursday, January 22, 2026, the Research and Data Centre (WODC) and the Trimbos Institute jointly organised the annual symposium of the National Drug Monitor (NDM). During the meeting, the latest figures and trends were presented: who uses drugs, and what developments are visible? What stood out...

Nobody likes a conflict, especially not about being good enough to belong to a certain profession. All the same, nobody wants to receive medical treatment from a doctor, without sufficient professional performance. So, after graduation, a medical specialist should be competent to provide the level...