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From hip-hop to Victor Hugo, and historical fiction to classic cinema: What do these things have in common with the study of law, you might think? At Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, a growing group of researchers and students is exploring exactly that and even more. 

Thanks to the SURF Incentive Scheme for Open and Online Education (still available at the time), Gwen Noteborn (university lecturer in personal and family law at Maastricht University), Claudia Hocks and Janneke Hendrix (lecturers in law at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences) were able to get...

Three researchers from Maastricht University (UM) will receive a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. They will receive €1.5 million each. Their funding is part of the EU Horizon Europe programme.

From Sunday, April 13 to Saturday, April 19, 2025 the seminar ' Economic Evaluation in Healthcare’ will take place. 

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded a grant for the new research project CHILD-WAR by Dr. Marieke Hopman and Dr. Guleid Jama. 

Two Law PhD candidates of the Maastricht Faculty received awards for their doctoral theses during the 21^st International Congress of the International Association of the Penal Law in Paris.

The UM team came second in the Grand Final of the 12th edition of the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition, which took place at the European Court of Human Rights. 

How can and should the government respond to the current low participation in the national immunization programme? Can certain forms of coercion be justified? The book Inducing Immunity? Justifying Immunisation Policies in Times of Vaccine Hesitancy provides answers. 

What is it like, being the first generation to go to university? We are talking about this topic with various UM students. Joy Osadebawem Daniel from Luxembourg is one of them. Her parents, originally from Nigeria, didn’t always have an easy time after arriving in Luxembourg. But they taught Joy an...