We’re pleased to announce that in November and December 2024, Kostina Prifti (ESL), Ida Varosanec (RUG), and Benedikt Schmitz (RUG) will be the first “Public-Private Challenge” PhDs to defend their dissertations. Below, you’ll find a link to the official announcement page, including an abstract of their manuscripts. Kostina Prifti Abstract This study is concerned with …
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Date: 19-20 June, 2025 Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Submission deadline abstract: 15 February, 2025 AI and algorithms have profoundly reshaped the field of public safety. From the spread of deepfakes and disinformation to issues of algorithmic profiling and the increasing dependence on Big Tech: AI challenges social conditions underpinning democratic values, including privacy, non-discrimination, and …
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Next April 3-4, the 2025 conference of the “Public-Private Challenge”, a joint research initiative of Erasmus School of Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, will take place in the beautiful city of Groningen. The theme of the conference will be “‘Law in the Age of Transitions: Public Interests and Private …
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From 12 to 13 September 2024, the Annual Conference of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association and of the Teaching Business and Human Rights forum took place at Wageningen University. During this conference, prof.dr. Martijn Scheltema (EUR), together with dr. Claire Bright and dr. Daniel Schönfelder, presented the European Model Clauses (EMCs) for …
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Is the world without investment arbitration, a world with(out) justice? Investor-State Dispute Settlement has been undergoing profound criticism for the past fifteen years. This has, in turn, generated a wave of initiatives and proposals for reform, either institutionally mandated (e.g., the work of the UNCITRAL Working Group III) or commenced by scholars and civil society …
On 14-16 June 2023, the 5th World Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists (WSMJJ) will take place in Malta. The topic is “Mixity in Private Law and/or Public Law“. This congress will be hosted by the University of Malta – Faculty of Laws through its Departments of Civil Law and European Law. Prof.dr. Aurelia …
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The University of Groningen is proud to host the 28 th Annual Meeting of the Common Core of European Private Law. Entitled ‘Sustainability and its Narratives’, the meeting will be held at various locations in the city centre of Groningen from Wednesday, 24 May to Friday, 26 May 2023. Any questions about this event? Send …
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Date: 22nd of March 2023 Location: European University Institute, Florence Organizers: Karolina Kocemba (European University Institute), Michał Stambulski (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Since the populist rise (especially in Central and Eastern European countries), scholars focusing on human rights and EU law have used the terms such as ‘rule of law crisis’, ‘human rights backlash’ or ‘democratic …
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On Wednesday 21 September 2022, the seminar “Environmental Crime & Gender” took place in Malaga, Spain. This one-day event explored the varied intersections of environmental crime and gender with the aim of sharing knowledge with the criminological community and inspiring new research and collaborations. Since 2012, green criminologists from around the world have been organising …
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) in Europe Network invites applications for its first Summer Academy, which will be held at Erasmus University Rotterdam, between the 27th and the 29th of June 2023. LPE in Europe is a movement of legal scholarship and praxis that seeks to show how law contributes to the social, economic, …
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