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Recently Research Fellow Rogier Wolf’s annotation to a ruling of the Court of Appeal has been published in the journal ‘Jurisprudentie in Nederland’. The ruling of the court is on the liability of directors of an association.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss talks about his PhD surpervisor, Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bauer, to university newspaper Observant (interview in English).

On Wednesday 12 November Mrs. Hina Jilani delivered the 5th Annual Theo van Boven Lecture, in honour of Prof. Theo van Boven, one of the founders of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights. The titel of her lecture was: 'Defending Rights: Human Rights Defenders in the Front Line'.

ICGI professorial fellow Kid Schwarz and ICGI Phd fellow Bastiaan Kemp were featured in the December 2013 issue of ‘Ondernemingsrecht’. In their contribution, the ICGI fellows discuss the Dutch foundation’s prohibition on having members of the Dutch foundation in the light of a foundation’s...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded to (among others) the discoverer and developer of the STED microscope, Stefan Hell from Heidelberg. And Maastricht University has one of the two modern STED microscopes in the Netherlands.

Dutch national newspaper De Telegraaf writes about KE@Work and speaks to Dr. Frank Thuijsman (article in Dutch).

ICGI research fellow Rogier Wolf published an article in this month's issue of ‘Ondernemingsrecht’. In his contribution, Wolf discusses the position of the holder of non-voting certificates in relation to the circle of stakeholders of a company and their ability to nullify a decision of the board.