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  • The Ides of March: The United Kingdom gets one last chance. Will it use it?

    Staying just a little bit longer? Or for good?

    Summary: With the European Council throwing a lifeline to the United Kingdom, all options are back on the table. Rather than taking back control, the United Kingdom now finds itself dependent on the remainder of the European Union – with the absence of...

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  • Facing reality

    With merely two weeks before the United Kingdom’s scheduled withdrawal from the European Union, Westminster still does not know what it wants and where it wishes to go.

    House of parliament London blog Brexit - 13 march 2019
  • Designer babies; morality or intellectual property?

    Unlike other sectors, improvements in Genetic technology raise issues of morality. The new human gene editing technology CRISPR/CAS9 has raised many such concerns. Can the current patent system deal with these concerns or should morality be dealt with by the inventors themselves?

    Designer Babies - Morality or Intellectual Property
  • Chimera

    In the hour of need, the United Kingdom is saddled with elected officials who fail to match the moment.

    Brexit blog bt Prashant Sabharwal_Law blog update feb19
  • Emergency for a wall?

    Is it legally possible for Trump to invoke an emergency in order to avoid Congress and obtain the necessary funds to build his wall? Or put differently: is it possible under US law to undo the refusal of Congress to appropriate the necessary funds?

    Trump wall - blog Maastricht University
  • Week from hell

    Theresa May’s favoured Brexit deal is finished. The question remains when the Prime Minister will finally be prevailed upon to understand this reality – and when Parliament will finally take charge of the process.

    Brexit update 21 dec 2018 blog image flag UK
  • Endgame

    With the final draft of the proposed Withdrawal Agreement having been published, the ball is back in the corridors of power in the United Kingdom. Will it take the deal?

    Brexit blog Theresa May_Prashant Sabharwal - Law Blogs Maastricht