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Charlotte A Campo’s LLB thesis was awarded by the Board of the Stichting Wetenschapsbeoefening UM as last year’s best bachelor thesis of the European Law School.

Jan Smits wrote an editorial for the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2016 (pp. 319-324) on New European Proposals for Distance Sales and Digital Contents Contracts: Fit for Purpose?

On Sunday, 17 January 2016, MCEL member dr. Anniek de Ruijter was a guest in ‘Buitenhof', a Dutch national television programme to speak with Yasmine Allas about the debate after the terrible sexual violence that took place in Keulen. The Programme is in Dutch. 

Call for papers – Extension of Deadline and Reminder! The deadline for the submission of papers is moved to 31 january 2016!

Ton Hartlief will be appointed Advocate-general at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. 

Prof. Bruno De Witte has published an article entitled 'Euro Crisis Responses and the EU Legal Order: Increased Institutional Variation or Constitutional Mutation?' in the latest issue of the European Constitutional Law Review (11:3, pp.434-457).

The Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies celebrated its very first lustrum on the 20th of November 2015. This lustrum conference was organized in cooperation with DVDW Advocaten, one of ICGI’s partner law firms and supported by the Universiteitsfonds Limburg/SWOL.

The research presented in the thesis concerns the use of nutritional science in the implementation of the European Nutrition and Health Claim Regulation as well as either the positive or negative effects resulting from combining the use of foods and pharmaceuticals. 

Christine van Basten-Boddin will be the new mayor of Beek. It is expected that she will succeed Ralf Krewinkel in the beginning of next year.

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.