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This workshop will offer renewed perspectives on the question of the ECB’s accountability, informed by the exceptional transformations that its mandate, functions and tasks have undergone over the last few years.

Digitalisation can help support facilitating setting up potential cross-departmental and societal research collaborations for science-centred research and impact creation to deal with ever-increasing complexity of societal challenges. The critique of disciplinary research silos can be corresponded by...

Professor Luc Soete was awarded the Order of Merit from the city of Maastricht during his farewell ceremony as Rector Magnificus.

Since the establishment of the WTO, the promise was made that the world would finally have an effective system of enforcement for trade and IP law. Peter van den Bossche discusses the American boycott of the Dispute Settlement System (DSS) under the WTO, in light of the TRIPS Agreement, at the IGIR...

Martijn Boussé implemented an integration competition in a calculus course for engineering students. The results surprised him: "If a competition can motivate students up to this point, then I feel like my job as a lecturer is done!"

Was the original revised ISDS System not enough? It seems that the traditional international investment agreements (IIA) concluded by States do no longer enjoy the legitimacy from civil society and academics. Critique has especially been directed at Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which...

Marcel Schaper's talk on "Legal Network Analysis: How to find Order in Chaos."

Last Friday, in Obergefell et al v. Hodges the United States Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote held that same-sex couples may exercise the right to marry in all US States. President Obama, a fervent supporter and promotor of the gay-marriage and gay rights, decided to light up the White House as a rainbow...