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).
MRI-platform Brains Unlimited from Maastricht University wins the ICT Impact Award. Brains Unlimited was nominated because of the great impact the scanner platform has on society and as part of the digital economy.
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.
Part of the Act on the Simplification and Flexibilization of Private Limited Liability Company Law, which entered into force on 1 October 2012, was a simplified procedure to adopt and approve the annual accounts of a private limited liability company for companies where all shareholders are also on...
The transfer of Prof. Ron M.A. Heeren (1965) from Amsterdam to Maastricht on 1 September 2014 signals the start of the creation of a new European institute for molecular imaging: M4I, or the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging institute.
ICGI Professional Fellow Prof. Bas Steins Bisschop published an article in the NJB (Nederlands Juristenblad) of the 3rd of October 2014. The article discusses the intended privatisation of ABN-AMRO by, among others, analysing the lessons learned form the takeover battle between KPN and América Móvil...
This Annual Report highlights the main activities of the Centre that were undertaken in the year 2013.
