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On June 23 the first PhD Meeting on Pensions took place, a joint initiative of the Institute of Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM and the Competence Centre for Pension Research / CCP from Tilburg University. The main purpose of this meeting was to bring together...

Who may compete for a country at the Olympics? While the qualification rounds for the Rio Olympics received huge media attention, the underlying question regarding which country an athlete may compete for only makes headlines when prominent athletes change their country of representation.

Prof. dr. mr. Kid Schwarz in Magna Charta - Leading men in ondernemingsrecht

In an article by RTL Z prof. mr. dr. Raymond Luja, of Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, has contributed about the topic of tax law.

The European Commission approved one of the final Deliverables of the FP7 project EFFACE (EU Action to Fight Environmental Crime).

On 9 March MCEL member, Professor Lisa Waddington, gave a keynote lecture at the conference Disability Policies and the impact of UNCRPD in the Nordic Region, organised by the Nordic centre for Welfare and Social Issues in Helsinki.

On Friday 4 March, Professor Jaap Spier was awarded with the distinction of Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by Mayor Penn-te Strake for his role in the development of liability law at national, supranational and international level.

The University of Aruba and Maastricht University signed an agreement today, Thursday 11 February 2016, to offer a Double Degree Master Programme in International and European Tax Law as of September 2016. The programme will be offered entirely in English.

On the 28th until 31st of January Maastricht University hosted one of the regional finals of the European Law Moot Court competition.

MCEL associate scholar Florin Coman-Kund has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Europen Union Agencies as Global Actors - A Legal Study of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Frontex and Europol”. His dissertation was supervised by MCEL members Ellen Vos and Andrea Ott.