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NWO MVI grants for two Amsterdam Law School projects
3 Dec 2019
The NWO research programme 'Responsible Innovation. Designing for public values in a digital world' has awarded funding to two Amsterdam Law School research proposals. Berenice Boutin received 615 thousand euros for ...
New Law Lab: Legal Tech
26 Nov 2019
Master’s students of Private Law and Employment Law can now gain experience in the fast-growing field of Legal Tech in a new Law Lab. To develop this learning further, ArbeidsmarktResearch (ARR) UvA has entered into ...
Special graduation ceremony for military law graduates
19 Nov 2019
On Friday 1 November 2019, the Faculty of Law hosted a special graduation ceremony for graduates from the Military Law specialisation track. This track consists of five Master's courses intended for members of the ...
Horizon 2020 grant for UvA research into the development of copyright in digital society
19 Nov 2019
The UvA’s Institute for Information Law (IViR) has won a grant worth 620,000 euros from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme for research conducted as part of an international consortium. The research is aimed at ...
'Access to legal aid in transition': farewell symposium in honour of Mies Westerveld
5 Nov 2019
Mies Westerveld, professor of Social Insurance law and professor by special appointment of Legal Aid will be leaving the UvA on 22 November 2019, following an academic career spanning over two decades. She developed ...
Nico van Eijk appointed chair of the CTIVD
5 Nov 2019
Nico van Eijk has been appointed Chair of the Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) by Royal Decree effective 1 November 2019. He was officially sworn in by Mark Rutte in the Prime ...
Amsterdam Law School and FEB welcome joint doctoral candidate
8 Oct 2019
Maryam Malakotipour is the first joint PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Law School and the Faculty of Economics and Business. Maryam previously completed a Master's programme in Law and Finance, where she graduated in ...
Dark day for the legal profession
24 Sep 2019
It was with dismay that the Amsterdam Law School learned of the violent death of criminal lawyer Derk Wiersum. A reaction from professor of the Legal Profession Diana de Wolff.
Amsterdam Law School receives extra funding for research
24 Sep 2019
For the next six years, the Amsterdam Law School will receive an extra six hundred thousand euros a year, to be spent on scientific research, increasing the number of young researchers and diversity. The money is ...
New ALP course: Internships
17 Sep 2019
New internships regulations for Master's students entered into force in September. The Internship course is now one of the experiential learning courses offered by the Amsterdam Law Practice (ALP), and new ...
Memory Detection: Does it work in practice?
3 Sep 2019
Memory detection techniques can be used to test whether someone has knowledge that only the perpetrator of a particular crime would know. Numerous experiments have corroborated the reliability of the results, but to ...
Student Laura Maaskant (1994 - 2019)
25 Aug 2019
Laura Maaskant (25), a talented law student, passed away on 15 August 2019. She was the author of a bestseller, LEEF, in which she shared her positive views on life and death.
Law scholarships awarded
2 Jul 2019
Law students Anne van den Bergh and Zohara Mahmoud have each been awarded scholarships in the amount of € 2000 to pursue their studies abroad. Anne won the Mr Julia Henriëtte Jaarsma-Adolfs scholarship and will be ...
Jelle van Haaster: Military Cyberoperations
2 Jul 2019
Jelle van Haaster is a cyber operations researcher at the Ministry of Defence, received the accolade Civil Servant of the Year in 2018, and will be conferred a PhD at the faculty on 5 July 2019 for his research into ...
The ALP in Practice: Private Law Practical
2 Jul 2019
The Amsterdam Law Practice, the Faculty’s experiential education division, has been up and running for a year now. The current offering of ALP courses is being evaluated and new ones are waiting in the wings. The ...
Three start-ups admitted to Amsterdam Law Hub Incubator Programme
25 Jun 2019
As soon as the Amsterdam Law Hub opened for business earlier this year, it immediately launched its Justice Challenge as a means of encouraging students and professionals with start-up aspirations to pitch their ...
PhD Defence “In China, laws do change following a crisis, although not always to great effect”
25 Jun 2019
The melamine-laced milk powder crisis of 2008, the crisis arising from pig carcasses being dumped in the Huangpu River in 2013, and the bird flu virus H7N9: PhD candidate Annemieke van den Dool studied three Chinese ...
New faculty appointment and career policy
25 Jun 2019
The Amsterdam Law School has updated its appointment and career policy for academic personnel. The new framework brings clarity regarding policy pertaining to both current and future staff members. The new policy was ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw: militant, exhilarating
18 Jun 2019
In a packed lecture hall, Kimberlé Crenshaw gave an inspiring lecture last week on her groundbreaking and globally authoritative work in the field of intersectionality (crossroads theory).
In Memoriam Hans Ankum 1930 - 2019
18 Jun 2019
Emeritus professor Hans Ankum died on 3 June 2019 at the age of 88. He studied at and was conferred a doctorate here, and was a professor of Roman Law from 1965 until his retirement in 1995. He took on a range of ...
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