Multilateral solutions as regional solutions?

The BEPS Project is regarded as a multilateral solution to prevent base erosion and profit shifting, but are these solutions truly multilateral?

Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama • April 19, 2018

CA and Facebook – a prime example of a multi-actor and multilevel legal issue

In mid-March the shocking story about Cambridge Analytica (CA)’s sophisticated hacking of Facebook’s data portability system hit the news. Taking a closer look at the case, the hacking turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Helena U. Vrabec • April 04, 2018

Empirical Research: Beyond Methods for Data Analysis

What do we need to consider in preparing for empirical research? The impression sometimes exists that a course on data analysis will do the job. But empirical research entails much more than that.

Daniel Blocq • March 29, 2018 • 1 comment

Money money money… in a rich man’s world

There was widespread disgust about the proposed salary increase of one million Euros for the Dutch ING chairman. The proposal was withdrawn following public pressure. But it has confirmed that the bankers are still out of touch with reality.

Wim Bonis • March 15, 2018

Emmanuel Macron and the paradigm shift in counterterrorism

Politicians have started to call the problem of Islamism by its actual name, instead of using obscure terms such as “violent extremism”. This is a welcome change, as openly talking about the religious nature of terrorism helps us to analyse the phenomenon.

Paul Cliteur • March 14, 2018

The odds of survival

How do judges estimate the odds of some unique event happening, such as the genocide in Srebrenica, as a result of the actions or inactions of bystanders? The ruling by a Dutch appellate court raises interesting questions about this matter.

Daniel Blocq • February 10, 2018 • 2 comments

Life and death in the classroom (shut up)

Academic or just haughty classroom admonitions against euthanasia were overtaken by a harrowing real-life story. The lesson (again): assisted suicide is not a life/death issue at all, but rather an issue of a shorter and better or longer and worse life.

Hendrik Kaptein • February 08, 2018

An exploration into uncharted legal territory

Capra and Mattei argue that the legal world still wrongly bases its core ideas, such as ‘private property’, on mechanistic science dating from the 16th century. They think it badly needs to update them to include the findings of current holistic science.

Wim Bonis • February 07, 2018

NIS Directive – update for the Netherlands

The Security of Network and information Systems (NIS) Directive will be very important for cybersecurity regulation in the EU. This blog will discuss recent developments concerning the implementation of the Directive in the Netherlands.

Pieter Kalis • January 31, 2018

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