Revisiting judicial independence, impartiality and accountability in the context of emerging European standards with a focus on judicial appointments and the public role of judges.
Prof. dr. Aalt Willem Heringa will deliver his farewell lecture In Courts We Trust on 25 March. It's part of a seminar on constitutional law, fundamental rights and the EU’s multi-layered legal order.
Video available. ONLINE event - “Next ITEM” – will be the title of the future public debates organized by ITEM, the UM cross-border institute. We start with the topic of citizens participation in decision making processes, currently discussed at all political level. The role of referenda, citizens...
The Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights have the pleasure to organize an online seminar (in two parts) to celebrate the Theo van Boven Human Rights Prize awarded to dr. Arenas Catalán.
This workshop will focus on two research questions. First, how selected international adjudicative bodies balance (a) individual rights with the general interest and (b) conflicting rights. Second, what is the role of scientific evidence in the decisions of the studied international adjudicators...
The aim of the event is to reflect, from a holistic perspective, on the evolution of the case law of the CJEU from Berlioz I to the recent État du Grand-duché de Luxembourg v L case from both a substantive tax law and a more institutional administrative law perspective. In particular, it aims to...
This was the sixth event in the Fireplace Talks on the 30th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, organised by UM Campus Brussels. It focused on one of the policy fields laid out by the Maastricht Treaty and in particular - Subsidiarity and Decision-making: Promoting Multi-level Governance.
This conference will address the role of transparency and participation of civil society in situations characterised by wicked problems of risk regulation as a way to strengthen the effectiveness of an open EU decision-making and takes place in York (UK).
This was the fifth event in the Fireplace Talks on the 30th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, organised by UM Campus Brussels. It focused on one of the policy fields laid out by the Maastricht Treaty and in particular - the Common Foreign and Security Policy.
The Jean Monnet project NOVA-EU (Innovating and Transforming the European Union) addressed between 2019 to 2021 four key challenges that heavily impact the European Union’s governance structure, regulatory framework, identity and, most importantly, its future. The final workshop aims to reflect on...