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Conference in Turin on what social and legal theory has to offer in respect to how to tame the destructive expansionist tendencies in modern society.

The Maastricht Project on European Contract Law shows the importance of innovation in legal education and what students can do when we give them the possibility to take matters into their own hands.

Project aimed at analysing the role of law in hip hop music.

The closing conference of the project should be considered a first step to more and more legal systems opening up their legal borders to cross border conveyances, and not necessarily only within the EU.

The high position of Dutch universities is a small wonder in view of the ever-decreasing public funds available for fundamental research.

HiiL on the law of the future.

‘CISG Conference’ where experts on the international sale of goods came together to review the Vienna Convention in the light of similar structures such as its latest contender, the Common European Sales Law, or the UCC.

Mark Kawakami: "From a rather ignorant American’s perspective, the cost of learning, debating, and trying to apply the continuously changing (or “harmonizing”) European law is so cumbersome that perhaps it is doing more harm than good to the European legal framework".