Award in European Law

ITEM’s scientific coordinator and MCEL researcher, dr. Alexander Hoogenboom, has been awarded ‘first place’ in the European Law Faculties Association 2016 doctoral thesis competition on European law for his thesis Balancing Student Mobility Rights and National Higher Education Autonomy in the European Union. The official announcement can be found here. Alexander would like to thank once again his supervisors for their insights and comments, as well as his partner, friends, family and colleagues for their company, trust and support throughout the writing process.
 

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