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The Maastricht University Faculty of Law team won the Helga Pederson Moot Court Competition last year. Time to look back on this great journey.

Sweeping success for our faculty in the VAR-moot court competition!

Climate change, depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution... Consciously and unconsciously, we burden future generations with problems because we created a mess. But, how can you consciously take this into account if this group has no rights?

Thanks to research by the Law Faculty, assessing the cross-border effects of new legislation became standard procedure.

Sweeping success for our faculty in the Comparative Law in Action (CLIA) Competition!

PhD thesis written by Guleid Jama
This research studies children’s rights in Somaliland, an unrecognized State in the Horn of Africa.

MCEL is organising a seminar featuring Prof. Eleftheria Neframi on the constitutional limits to sustainable development in the EU's external action.

The Children’s Rights Research team worked on a report that shows how the rights of children in de facto states can be included in de United Nations human rights monitoring and reporting cycles.

The team representing Maastricht pleaded at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg in April 2024, ending top four out of the 80 participating teams. 

The international finals of the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (ICCC) took place in Lublin, Poland, in the second week of April 2024. The finals were organized by the Catholic University of Lublin. Teams from 22 countries from all over the world participated.