Blind trust?
May the US President appoint his son in law as advisor to the White House? For quite a lot formal appointments the President needs the advice and consent (permission) from the senate, but not here. Is it permissible?
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Van Rey and the integrity of public administration and criminal law
The Court of Rotterdam convicted Jos van Rey and determined that passive corruption had been proven, but did not issue a sentence... This blog is only available in Dutch.
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Ecuador Earthquake: What lawyers can do
On Saturday 16 of April an earthquake struck Ecuador. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, it levelled various towns of the province of Manabí, in particular Pedernales, Manta and Portoviejo. At current estimates, it has killed more than 500 persons. Many of them died a slow death, after days of being...
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Migration, natural disasters and liability
Refugee crisis and migration may obviously have a lot of different sources. The current refugee crisis in Europe is obviously strongly related to the war in Syria. However, quite often migration and hence a stream of refugees, can also be caused by natural disasters, even by climate change. Some...
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