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The roundtable will engage in academic discussion on some of the pressing challenges that property law faces in the XXI century. Speakers will address, amongst others, issues related to sustainability, the social function, temporality in property law, and digitalisation.

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.

When you receive psychological treatment, for instance for an anxiety disorder or depression, what actually happens in your brain?

The University of Bergen in Norway, a member institute of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), hosted the second national SDG conference last week. Tasmin Rüffert, Strategy Coordinator at the UM Green Office and Maria Tomai Research Assistant at UNU-MERIT represented UM during this conference and...

During the 47th Dies Natalis, Professor Robert Langer will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Maastricht University for his impressive career in academics and business.

From polarisation, misinformation and populists at home to geopolitical pressure from abroad: European democracy is feeling the strain. In an effort to uphold and expand one of its core values, the EU is financing a research project on the promotion of democracy. Professor Giselle Bosse, an Eastern...

In a compelling exploration of the cocoa and coffee industries, a new FSD report highlights the economic, environmental, and social challenges faced by smallholder farmers, unravelling the status quo of persistent poverty and disparities and the pressing need for increased transparency and traceability...

Donna Carroll reports on a UM student survey showing that students’ unsupervised use of GenAI is often driven by opportunity, pressure and rationalisation, in line with the classic fraud triangle and helping explain why some outsource their work while others use AI more constructively.

Abazi’s potential is easy to recognise, which is reflected in the reactions from several mentors and juries in her academic career thus far. She is lucky (or is it foresight?) that her research topics, such as her work on the legal protection of whistleblowers, often appear in the news. Recently, she...

La Répression de la Torture en Droit Positif Béninois