Thesis prizes
Last Friday 26 January, we celebrated the 42nd Dies Natalis of the UM. Our vice-dean for education Jos Hamers awarded the prize for the best bachelor essay to:
- Nikki Janssen (bachelor Dutch Law) for her thesis 'The Netherlands is getting increasingly asocial? Research into the legal approach for disturbance of living in 'the Netherlands'.
- Constanta Rosca (bachelor European Law School) for her thesis 'Having your Keck and eating it: using social network analysis and citation summarisation to determine whether the CJEU has abandoned the certain selling arrangements doctrine'.
- Remon Tulen (bachelor Tax Law) for his thesis 'Tax burden personal entrepreneur and director-majority shareholder, neutral or not?'
In the afternoon the rector handed the prize to Esmée Driessen (master Dutch Law specialization Constitutional and Administrative Law) for her master thesis ‘Legal bottlenecks when implementing the Right to Challenge in the social domain’.

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