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This Round Table conference explores the limits of, and justification for, the exercise of private autonomy in five main fields of private law: the law of contract, tort, property, succession and family relationships. 

Research at Maastricht University is the first to substantiate the financial consequences of an unhealthy indoor environment

Dr Pilar Martinez is the first UM researcher to win a grant from the Weston Brain Institute in Canada. She will use this grant to continue her research into Alzheimer’s disease.  The €107,000 grant comes from The Selfridges Group Foundation.

Personalised medicine using surgical simulation (MUMC+ news).

Andrea Finesso, a second-year Italian student of European Studies, is the winner of the essay competition initiated by the Dutch House of Representatives and Senate to mark the Dutch EU Presidency.

After 35 years in Maastricht and 42 years in the world of academia, René de Groot officially retired on 14 October 2016. How does this international expert on nationality law look back on his career? And what does the future hold?

Dr. Hylke Dijkstra, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has recently edited a forum on the recent EU Global Strategy for the Journal of Contemporary Security Policy with seven articles by senior colleagues on how the strategy came about.

The Chinese Scholarship Council has announced that they have granted a scholarship to a PhD-student to come to the Maastricht University for developing a novel wound dressing that is completely derived from the stinging nettle Urtica dioica.