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Tais Terletskaja is a visiting PhD from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Computers are already capable of making independent decisions in familiar situations. But can they also apply knowledge to new facts? Mark Winands, the new professor of Machine Reasoning at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, develops computer programs that behave as rational agents.

Trademark squatting has been a serious issue in China now, especially for foreign companies planning to enter the Chinese market. On November 4^th 2019, Beijing Municipal High People's Court issued a second-instance judgment on the “MUJI trademark infringement case”, which rejected the appeal brought...

“Innovation Strategies and Their Implications for Technological Change and Market outcomes: An Evolutionary Multi-Agent Based Modelling Approach”

The European Students’ Union (ESU) represents the voice of students at EU level, and regularly takes part in discussions with policy-makers to voice the views of the student community. In this edition of ‘What’s up, EU?’, we will discuss the main EU agenda topics important for students, what projects...

Why would environmental damage in Nigeria be litigated in The Hague, The Netherlands? Or a worldwide Volkswagen “Dieselgate” in Amsterdam? Are Dutch courts better equipped to deal with complex litigation arising out of multinationals’ activities? Against the backdrop of recent Dutch case law, the...

Jessica Hagen-Zanker works for ODI, an international, independent think tank that conducts research and advises governments and NGOs on global issues such as migration. The Maastricht-trained senior research fellow notes that politicians tend to shy away from humane and practical solutions. "Migration...

Should the law be disobeyed when it is perceived to be unjust – by judges or civil servants in particular, but also more generally? We will be examining the issue at the VWR 2022 winter meeting.

The national Reference Index for High-Risk Children (Verwijsindex Risicojongeren), an ICT system introduced in 2010 to identify high-risk children at an early stage and to facilitate collaboration between various support agencies, does not work as intended nor can practicing professionals apply it...

On 11 and 12 November, the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics and Copenhagen Business School hosted the Causal Data Science Meeting. The two-day conference brought together academics and industry experts who work on one of the most fundamental questions in data science: discerning...