Asylum seekers usually do not cross borders with a bag of documents. They have lost their personal belongings or have been confiscated by smugglers. Oral statements are therefore the only proof of origin. (Dutch only)
To avoid the collapse of the WTO dispute settlement system, and thwart any attempt to hold it hostage, WTO members could make use of an oft-overlooked legal provision allowing for arbitration as an alternative to adjudication before the appellate body.
On Friday, 8th September, Ana Ramalho, assistant professor of Intellectual Property Law, delivered a lecture during the Festival of Pleasure, Arts and Science (PAS), at the Faculty of Law, entitled “Can AARON be Warhol?”, in which she examined if copyright should be awarded to artificial...
Broad ‘EU-only’ trade agreements can constitute the new normal of EU external trade action, only if such agreements exclude portfolio investment and investor-state dispute settlement provisions from their scope.
The European Union is currently in the process of overhauling its anti-dumping regime, changing the methodology in a way that it hopes will appease China while preserving the effectiveness of the EU’s trade defence instruments. However, in his Master Thesis Olav de Wit, LL.M. of the Master...
The apportionment of the EU’s tariff rate quotas is key when assessing the legal implications of Brexit for the UK's agricultural sector. It is unclear if the UK will manage to establish in-quota tariffs for the products of its interest that replicate the existing levels.
On 6 June, IGIR fellow Dr. Iveta Alexovičová, Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, delivered a lecture entilted "Substance alongside procedure - a lesson learned?".
Was the original revised ISDS System not enough? It seems that the traditional international investment agreements (IIA) concluded by States do no longer enjoy the legitimacy from civil society and academics. Critique has especially been directed at Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which...
Copyright law was designed to protect the original works of human authors. This is evident in the wording of legislations across continents, as copyright ownership is granted to natural or legal persons.
The world of copyright is never at a standstill and the latest trend to create some buzz in the field is called: blockchain.
