On 16 September 2015, the European Public Law Organization in Athens awarded Dr. Tanja Ehnert a Special Distinction for her PhD dissertation entitled "Regulating the Invisible: A Critical Analysis of the EU's Approach to Nanotechnologies".
With 94 out of 100 points and three plusses (+++), University College Maastricht (UCM) was ranked the highest-rated bachelor's programme in the Netherlands according the Dutch university information guide Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.
MCEL warmly welcomes its two new associate scholars Ana Ramalho and Kathrin Hamenstädt.
The book Vergeving in het strafrecht via de implementatie van herstelbemiddeling ('Forgiveness in criminal justice through the implementation of restorative mediation') was published this week by Jacques Claessen, professor of Criminal Procedural Law.
The Law Faculty at the University of Maastricht launches a new research platform ‘Judging in Europe’.
On October 21 Sarah Schoenmaekers held a presentation at the World Bank in Washington on debarment issues in public procurement law.
The Centre for European Research in Maastricht – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (CERiM) is a newly created research platform for collaboration that brings together more than one hundred researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
The budget cuts facing the Public Prosecution Service until 2018 are threatening the organisation's ability to function.
UM to head research on customer-friendly system in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium as of 2016
On 1 October 2015 Bastiaan Kemp, former PhD-fellow at the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies (ICGI), was appointed Assistant Professor of Company Law at our faculty (department Private Law) and as Research Fellow at ICGI.