The national Reference Index for High-Risk Children (Verwijsindex Risicojongeren), an ICT system introduced in 2010 to identify high-risk children at an early stage and to facilitate collaboration between various support agencies, does not work as intended nor can practicing professionals apply it...
Irshad Manji, a well-known critic of traditional mainstream Islam and described by The New York Times as "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare", will give the Tans Lecture, titled ‘Beyond Geert Wilders: Turning Polarisation into Constructive Conflict’. The lecture will take place on 10 November.
After the recent successful outcome of the National Student Enquiry (NSE) and the Elsevier Best Study Programmes, our bachelor programmes Tax Law and European Law School are in first place in the Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs.
On 16 September 2015, the European Public Law Organization in Athens awarded Dr. Tanja Ehnert a Special Distinction for her PhD dissertation entitled "Regulating the Invisible: A Critical Analysis of the EU's Approach to Nanotechnologies".
With 94 out of 100 points and three plusses (+++), University College Maastricht (UCM) was ranked the highest-rated bachelor's programme in the Netherlands according the Dutch university information guide Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.
MCEL warmly welcomes its two new associate scholars Ana Ramalho and Kathrin Hamenstädt.
The book Vergeving in het strafrecht via de implementatie van herstelbemiddeling ('Forgiveness in criminal justice through the implementation of restorative mediation') was published this week by Jacques Claessen, professor of Criminal Procedural Law.
The Law Faculty at the University of Maastricht launches a new research platform ‘Judging in Europe’.
On October 21 Sarah Schoenmaekers held a presentation at the World Bank in Washington on debarment issues in public procurement law.
The Centre for European Research in Maastricht – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (CERiM) is a newly created research platform for collaboration that brings together more than one hundred researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.