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Meuwese on new developments in Dutch cabinet’s response to child benefits scandal 19 January 2021
In recent days and weeks, experts have been falling over themselves to point the finger at the main culprit in the Dutch child benefits scandal. Altho...
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Hans-Martien ten Napel participates in The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism Global Summit 19 January 2021
The Global Summit, which took place from 12-16 January 2021, is an initiative by Richard Albert, the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor...
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Reijer Passchier wins Meijers prize and Van Wersch Springplank prize 14 January 2021
The Meijers prizes are awarded each year for the best published article from each faculty research programme. Reijer received the prize for his contri...
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Online Conference The Development of Normative Powers of UN Investigative Mechanisms 14 January 2021
The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in collaboration with the University of Geneva, the Chinese Journal of International Law (ChineseJI...
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Christa Tobler in the media about Brexit and Switzerland 05 January 2021
In the days following Christmas, Christa Tobler gave a series of interviews to Swiss newspapers and Swiss radio about the new Trade and Cooperation Ag...
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Anne Meuwese on use of AI by public authorities 17 December 2020
New technological applications which the government wants to use need to be thoroughly examined to prevent them causing problems for citizens. Current...
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Dutch nationals abroad can lose Dutch nationality when passport expires 08 December 2020
Around 23,500 Dutch nationals have been affected by this rule This was revealed by government figures on the number of Dutch nationals who submit an a...
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Coronavirus: Powers of employers to deal with reckless behaviour of workers 30 November 2020
In the public debate on the coronavirus, bold assertions from academics, doctors and other medical practitioners are often heard. For example, that th...
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Peter Rodrigues on legal action against the State on ethnic profiling 13 October 2020
Two citizens, together with organisations including Amnesty International, antidiscrimination agency RADAR and the Dutch Section of the International ...
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Armin Cuyvers on Brexit and the UK elections in BNR National News Radio 10 September 2020
On Wednesday 9 November, Armin Cuyvers was interviewed on the already infamous UK ‘Internal Market Bill', which was published that day.
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May employers require employees to be tested for corona? 14 August 2020
When an employee returns from an area considered to be a corona risk, can their employer require them to have a corona test? This is a complicated iss...
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Paul van der Heijden appointed on arbitration panel USMCA in the United States 02 July 2020
USMCA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is the successor to NAFTA – a free trade zone covering Canada, the United States and Mexico. This Agreeme...
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Conflict between Turkey and Greece about territorial waters 30 June 2020
Thanks to modern technology, it is now possible to extract more gas and oil in the eastern part of the Mediterranean than in the past. As a result, a...
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Rowie Stolk on strategic litigation by interest groups 02 March 2020
The Dutch legal system perhaps appears at first sight not to be very suited for strategic litigation by interest groups. But judgments such as SyRI an...
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Is CETA a barrier to effective climate policy? 27 February 2020
One of the objections to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and Europe (Ceta) is that countries would be surrendering natio...