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On Friday 28 September at 3.30pm we will proudly present our new book series. The Maastricht Law Series is created in 2018 by Boom juridisch and Eleven International Publishing in association with the Maastricht University Faculty of Law.

On Friday 14 September, METRO researcher Yu Yan successfully defended her PhD thesis 'A Changing Landscape of Road Traffic Liability in China: A View from Law and Economics'. Many congratulations to Dr. Yan!

ITEM supports and promotes - from science - the euregional and transnational functioning of society. In order for society to use ITEM's research, a cross-border portal was launched on September 24th, 2018 during a GIPTOGETHER-meeting of cross-border information points in Eupen.

Column by Ionica Smeets in national newspaper de Volkskrant, based on a lecture by Prof. Dr. Frank Thuijsman (column in Dutch)

On Friday 14 September, Yu Yan successfully defended her PhD thesis on: "A changing landscape of road traffic liability in China: a view from law and economics".

The second report of the ITEM/ICGI project on ‘Cross-Border Corporate Mobility in the EU’ has now been published. The report identifies a continuous cross-border corporate activity and features a comprehensive country-by-country reporting to provide a fuller picture of cross-border company mobility...

On Friday 14 September 2018, André de Zutter, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "My Rape Story that Should be Believed: on the difference between true and false allegations of rape". 

Looking back on an inspiring sunny Alumni Day, 8 September 2018. Did you all have a good time? Hopefully we provided you with enough food for thought. Thank you all for your contribution and we are looking forward to your visit next year!

Expertise Centre ITEM investigates a number of aspects in relation to cross-border work. One obstacle that cross-border workers face involves obtaining a 'DigiD', the Dutch digital identification system. Regarding this obstacle proceedings were initiated in recent months, which have led to a ruling...