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

Yes, we can (change)

By the end of 2019 The French Supreme Court will change the structure and motivations in all its decisions. The ‘most important’ decisions will be provided with an ‘extended’ motivation.

Pauline Ribbers and Ekaterina Pannebakker • July 18, 2019

What about the makfuls? Kafala, the Family Reunification Directive and Children’s Rights

Should children, who are the subject of kafala arrangements, be reunified with their carers under the Family Reunification Directive?

Chelsea Schuin • July 11, 2019