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  • Where Law Meets Pop Culture: A Creative Space for Exploration

    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. 

    Agustin Parise, Livia Solaro and Arthur Willemse LPC-RN
  • Innovative Education in Personal and Family Law

    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...

    Gwen Noteborn en Claudia Hock in het klaslokaal
  • The Maastricht Consulates Prize on EU Law 2023

    The Consul Association has jointly decided to award a prize (value: 1000 euro) for the best master thesis in the field of EU law, written at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University during the academic year 2022/2023. The Prize will be awarded to the student who wrote a thesis of outstanding...

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  • Feeling 'different'

    With the project 'About not being an Einstein', made possible by a grant from the Diversity & Inclusivity Office, Anke Smeenk wants to ensure that being gifted is more widely recognised at Maastricht University.

    Anka Smeenk
  • Medical student is 'flying high' at the Defensity College

    Simon Cornelissen isn't only attending the master's programme in Medicine. In addition to his busy curriculum, he is also an ensign with the Dutch Ministry of Defence and a working student at the Defensity College. Watch the video.

     

    Simon Cornelissen going the extra mile
  • Conference on the Human Rights of Future Generations

    On 18 & 19 November, Loevestein castle, in collaboration with Maastricht University’s Centre for Human Right and the Lab Toekomstige Generaties (Lab Future Generations), will organise a conference on the human rights of future generations. 

    Stylised picture of Hugo Grotius with the text: Symposium: Let the future generations escape. Symposium on the human rights of future generations during the Hugo de Groot (Grotius) year
  • Hestia grants for talented UM researchers

    The Dutch Research Council (NWO) today awarded a Hestia grant to two researchers, who will receive a UM appointment funded by the ‘Hestia – Impulse for Refugees in Science’ pilot, which was launched in 2018.

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