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After being active for almost a year, the Maastricht Centre of Law & Jurisprudence (MCLJ) officially launched on 23 January 2025

The special issue, co-edited by Lilian Tsourdi and Federica Zardo, explores migration governance through funding while providing unique empirical insights into its design, rationale, use and implications.

The Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) is pleased to announce the opening of the application period for its MCEL Visiting Programme. 

Technology, particularly when concentrated in the hands of powerful individuals, can seriously challenge liberty and democracy. On 20 February 2025, the Globalisation & Law Network had the opportunity to discuss these challenges with Dr. Maja Sahadžić, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at...

METRO has reached the goals for which it was created in 1991: stimulating comparative, European and international research at the Maastricht law faculty. In 2025 METRO will stop its activities. This news item provides further details. 

Anna Beckers contributed a chapter titled "The Remains of the Corporation: A Future of Fragmented Corporate Personhood" to the book The Future of the Person, edited by Hans-W. Micklitz and Giuseppe Vettori.

On 6 February 2025, the Globalisation & Law Network had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Joyce de Coninck, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, who presented her recently published monograph The EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap. Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity...

Dr Niels Philipsen has been appointed professor of Legal Economics at Maastricht University's Faculty of Law with effect from 1 March 2025. The chair will be housed in the Department of Foundations of Law.

The Executive Board has appointed Dr Gabriel Esquivel as Professor in Transforensic Psychiatry with effect from 1 February 2025.