Do trade agreements work in an unpredictable world?

Quite quickly national considerations are taking priority over collective agreements. Who would have thought the European Union would be challenged by Brexit? And who would have thought trade wars, such as the one between China and the US would re-emerge?

Laura Lancée • August 30, 2019

How does cyber warfare fit in the framework of International Humanitarian Law?

Gone are the days when the worst thing on the Internet to be afraid of was a pesky virus. The current highly sophisticated malware looks for software vulnerabilities which can result in fatal damage to the opponent’s entire computer network.

Laura Krawczyk • August 09, 2019 • 1 comment

News from “cookie land”

The use of web cookies has become increasingly diverse, enabling tracking beyond traditional cookie techniques. Social networks and website owners both get a piece of the pie, but how should legal responsibilities be split?

Helena U. Vrabec • August 08, 2019 • 2 comments

‘The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started…’

50 years after landing on the moon the media and scientists still dream about further exploring space. Yet the images of planet earth have shifted our focus: we return to where we started, with a renewed awareness of the place we have always lived in.

Wim Bonis • August 07, 2019

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on state responsibility and climate change

In November 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued Advisory Opinion OC-23, which highlighted the relationship of interdependence and indivisibility that exists between human rights, the environment and sustainable development.

Paola Tiffer • August 06, 2019

Policing prison

In an attempt to reduce crime and disorder, prisons are being taken away from the Ministry of Justice. Could such a policy ever prove effective, and what does it mean for inmates, their rights and freedoms, and the criminal justice landscape as a whole?

Christos Papachristopoulos • August 01, 2019

The Mediator in Insolvency Law: Exploring New Terrain

On 11 September 2018, the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch handed down a remarkable interlocutory judgment in a case involving the bankruptcy of a tiling company.

Gert-Jan Boon, Maciek Bednarski, Carlotte Dessauvagie and Milan Pastoors • July 30, 2019

The new kid on the block: the HCCH Judgments Convention of 2 July 2019

The HCCH has adopted a new convention that offers a facilitated regime of global circulation of court decisions in civil and commercial matters aiming to foster international trade. Care is needed to coherently shape the treaty’s place in existing regimes.

Ekaterina Pannebakker and Jeroen van der Weide • July 29, 2019

A trip to Oslo and through the Norwegian penal exceptionalism

After a year studying Criminology from the Dutch perspective, Leiden students set off on a journey to learn about the Norwegian criminal justice system and its exceptionalism. What can the Netherlands, and the world, learn from Norway?

Manuela Dias • July 19, 2019