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Consumers need better online protection from digital service providers
23 Feb 2021
The Unfair Contract Terms Directive needs to be updated for digital service providers. This is what Marco Loos and Joasia Luzak argue in their study 'Update the Unfair Contract Terms directive for digital services'. ...
5 legal questions on vaccine distribution
22 Feb 2021
Fair distribution of vaccines around the world, saving lives and money. It sounds like utopia, but is it? Katrina Perehudoff works at the Law Centre for Health and Life at the University of Amsterdam and answers five ...
‘My research is breaking up the silos’
8 Feb 2021
Recent study by Dr Kristina Irion joins up three EU policy areas that intersect in the digital age: consumer protection, EU governance of AI and EU external trade. "They are becoming so intertwined', says Dr. Irion. ...
Behind the scenes of online education
5 Jan 2021
It is the new reality for all of us: giving and receiving online education. Students and lecturers hardly meet at the REC anymore, and exams no longer take place at physical locations. In an interview serie, faculty ...
A look behind the scenes of online education
8 Dec 2020
It is the new reality for all of us: giving and receiving online education. Students and lecturers hardly meet at the REC anymore, and exams no longer take place at physical locations. Lecturers and other employees ...
Martijn Nouwen in European Parliament on harmful tax practices
1 Dec 2020
Martijn Nouwen (Amsterdam Law School) will be heard as an expert on Tuesday 1 December 2020 in a hearing of the European Parliament on the European approach to tackling harmful tax practices.
Behind the scenes of online education
23 Nov 2020
It is the new reality for all of us: giving and receiving online education. Students and lecturers hardly meet at the REC anymore, and exams no longer take place at physical locations. Lecturers and other employees ...
A look behind the scenes of online education
10 Nov 2020
It is the new reality for all of us: giving and receiving online education. Students and lecturers hardly meet at the REC anymore, and exams no longer take place at physical locations. Lecturers and other employees ...
Intake of Amsterdam Law School students increases sharply
10 Nov 2020
Both bachelor's and master's programmes at the Amsterdam Law School have considerably more first year students this year than last year, with 28% and 25% increases, respectively. The corona crisis seems to play a ...
Linde Bryk in VIVA400
9 Nov 2020
Linde Bryk is nominated for the VIVA400 Award! Linde is praised for her work as a human rights lawyer and as a strategic legal assistant for women's rights. 'I teach students to use the law to correct inequalities'.
René Smits: UvA Lecturer of the Year 2020
20 Oct 2020
René Smits was elected Teacher of the Year 2020 during the Education Day. We warmly congratulate him with this honorable appointment!
Irma van den Berg 'Most socially committed lawyer'
19 Oct 2020
Irma van den Berg of the Lawyers for Lawyers foundation has been named the 'Most socially involved lawyer' in the Netherlands this year by SDU publishers. In the nineties she graduated from the Amsterdam Law School. ...
2 Students of European Competition Law and regulation win thesis prizes
12 Oct 2020
Earlier this month, at the Annual Conference of the Stichting Ontwikkelingen Mededingingsrecht, our former LLM students European Competition law and Regulation Lousine Hovhanisian and Mia Monas have won a shared 2nd ...
Ágnes Sipiczki wins ACM thesis prize 2020
12 Oct 2020
Ágnes Sipiczki, former LLM student EU Competition Law and Regulation and ACELG Research Assistant, has won the 1st thesis prize at the ACM Dag van de Scriptie’ thesis competition.
First aid for online education
6 Oct 2020
How do I create a poll in Zoom? How do I put a recorded video on Canvas? Education starts at the end of October in block 2. Almost all education will be online, with the necessary challenge that comes with it. The ...
‘Corona fines do not affect compliance 1.5 meter rule'
7 Sep 2020
Do people obey the rules during the corona crisis? Benjamin Van Rooij and Chris Reinders Folmer, researchers of the Center for Law and Behavior (C-Lab) investigated in their project 'Compliance with COVID-19 ...
UvA launches new research project on how to design tax systems for a post COVID-19 world
27 Aug 2020
Today, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) announced the launch of the research project “Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society” (CPT project). The ambitious initiative is ...
FSR questions about proctoring
23 Jun 2020
Does proctoring comply with privacy rules? Has sufficient consideration been given to alternatives? The Faculty Student Council has asked the Faculty Board a number of questions about the use of proctoring at the ...
Pilot online proctoring Amsterdam Law School
23 Jun 2020
Amsterdam Law School will use proctoring as a pilot at the end of the current academic year for the re-exam 'Bestuursprocesrecht'. After evaluation of the pilot, and depending on the situation at that time, the ...
Online PhD defence is a formal ceremony
23 Jun 2020
The usually prescribed dress suit could stay in the closet; a suit with tie was sufficient for the digital ceremony. What's it like to defend your thesis online? We speak with Tjebbe Gerverdinck, the first online PhD ...
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