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Prof. Brigit Toebes and Dr Michelle Bruijn have been awarded a grant from funding organization Zonmw. The project is titled 'Alcohol regulation: navigating between allowing and prohibiting'.

Aline Klingenberg, professor of IT-Law at the Faculty of Law, was recently appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Groningen as a member of the Temporary Committee on Student Data.

Dr Marlies Hesselman and David Patterson, LL.M., are co-authors of a publication in the leading health journal The Lancet. The article they co-authored is titled “Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis”.

Marc Hertogh has been appointed as faculty professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance of Utrecht University as of 1 May 2024. He will fill the position part-time and will also remain Professor of Law and Society at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen.

Manolis Kotzampasakis has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Schuman Grant for doctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law.

The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, the wars in former Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, terrorist attacks, sexual violence: all raise the question of who is capable of such things. What kind of people are behind these atrocities and what motivates them? Alette Smeulers, professor of international crimes at the University of Groningen, researches perpetrators of extreme forms of mass and political violence. Her conclusion: 'The biggest mistake we can make is thinking that a perpetrator is completely different from ourselves.'

Prof. Herman Bröring en mr. Gohar Karapetian hebben financiering toegekend gekregen vanuit het KNAW Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke voor het verrichten van onderzoek naar de omvang van de Staten-Generaal in Grondwetshistorisch en rechtsvergelijkend Frans perspectief.

Heinrich Winter, Professor of Public Administration at our Faculty, has been appointed chairman of the supervisory committee for the WODC study ‘Explanatory Factors for the Volume of Youth Protection Measures (JB) and Youth Rehabilitation (JR)’.

The research project Our Rule of Law has been named Dutch finalist of the European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2024. One project from each EU country was chosen as a national finalist.

This week at the UG is all about the Education Festival. One of the components of that festival is the presentation of the Best Practice Award. This year, no fewer than four employees of the Faculty of Law have been nominated for that award.

Ghent University honors Joe Cannataci with the Amnesty International Chair for his prominent role in privacy protection.

On March 13th, an event about cybersecurity and the Network and Information systems Security (NIS) 2 Directive was organized by Evgeni Moyakine, an Assistant Professor IT law from the Faculty of Law, in collaboration with the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI.

Catherine Jasserand, assistant professor at our Faculty, has won one of the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards (PPPM) from the Future of Privacy Forum. She received the award for her paper ‘Experiments with Facial Recognition Technologies in Public Spaces: In Search of an EU Governance Framework’.

Adriaan Wierenga, LL.M., emergency law specialist and researcher at our Faculty, has been appointed a member of the supervisory committee for the WODC study 'Evaluation of Squatting Enforcement Act. Phase 2: 1 measurement'.