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On 29 November 2024, MCEL member Maja Brkan, Judge at the General Court of the European Union, gave her inaugural lecture on 'Digitalisation and EU fundamental rights: the good, the bad and the opaque'. 

Anna Beckers contributed a chapter titled "From Corporate Personality to Corporate Governance: The Transformation of International Human Rights Through Corporate Practice" to the book Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance, edited by Nehal Bhuta and Rodrigo Vallejo. 

What does the recent victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections mean for the future of cryptocurrency? This and many other pressing issues were addressed by Dr Andrea Leiter at the Globalisation & Law Network seminar held on 13 November 2024.

PhD thesis written by Jana Nysten
This thesis sets out to examine the potentials and limitations of climate change litigation. It establishes a framework which allows for some general conclusions on how different types of climate change litigation function and how they can help address gaps in the...

On 31 October 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network hosted a seminar featuring Dr Gesa Kübek, Assistant Professor in European Law at Groningen University. 

PhD thesis written by Hanxu Liu
This research aims to answer the main research question: whether and if so, how have European OPDs effectively participated in the UN human rights mechanisms, with a view to monitoring the national implementation of human rights in alignment with the CRPD?

In October 2024, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law published the Special Issue "The Future of EU Fundamental Rights", co-edited by Šejla Imamović, Elin Börjedal and Eleonora Di Franco. 

PhD thesis written by Martina Coli
This thesis investigated the paths for transforming the founding values of the European Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU into legal obligations binding on the Member States.

On 3 October 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network was pleased to welcome Rachel Griffin (Sciences Po), who presented her work in progress titled ‘EU Platform Regulation in the Age of Neo-Illiberalism’. 

PhD thesis written by Cécile Woudenberg-van den Broek
Recent reports on forensic medicine in the Netherlands highlight the need for significant improvements in postmortem investigations. This thesis questions the adequacy of the Dutch system, arguing that it may not meet the criteria set by the...