Tamar de Waal, assistant professor (university lecturer) of Legal Philosophy, has won the dissertation prize awarded by the Association for Philosophy of Law (Vereniging voor de Wijsbegeerte van het Recht, VWR). The ...

Information Law alumnus Jan van Vegchel is the winner of the 2019 UvA Thesis Prize. He investigated ways that members of the public might counter inaccurate media publications about them by invoking a “right of ...

A stellar performance by the honoursstudents of the Amsterdam Honours College of Law as they won all prizes in the 2019 edition of the Amsterdam Law Trials!

Kees Cappon, professor of Historical Perspectives on the Institutional Foundations of the Law in Europe, will present a farewell lecture on 20 June 2019. The lecture will be devoted to the rule of law, the concept of ...

Emma Morgan, dr Nienke Doornbos, and their start-up Clarity Now were declared the winners of the Justice Challenge this past Friday 24 May at the conclusion of the Amsterdam Law Hub’s start-up pitch event. Eight ...

On Wednesday the 15th of May the NRC published an article about the long-term undesirable conduct of one of the professors appointed at our faculty. In accordance with the decision of the Court of Amsterdam issued on ...

Computable trade journal has nominated the study by Jill Coster van Voorhout (Criminal Law) of the detection of human trafficking using bank data. Set up in collaboration with ABN AMRO and the Inspectorate of the ...

The consternation prompted by Jan van de Streek and Martijn Nouwen’s revelations about the dividend withholding tax memos erupted a year ago. At 7 May 2019, a court will deliberate on whether the government needs to ...

'International Law and its institutions have contributed to high levels of inequality within and between countries.' That is the main thrust of the inaugural lecture Ingo Venzke will deliver on 16 May 2019. He argues ...

Natali Helberger, professor of Information Law, has been inducted into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW. Its members, eminent academics from a wide range of disciplines, are chosen based on ...

The 2018 Annual Report of the Netherlands Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer) contains an interview with Jacobine van den Brink. She participated in meetings of experts involved in research into revolving funds ...

A team from the Amsterdam Law School has won the Willem C. Vis East Moot Court Competition. More than 130 international teams take part in the Moot Court (International Commercial Arbitration and International Sales ...

Jill Coster van Voorhout (Criminal Law) and her colleagues from ABN AMRO and the Inspectorate SZW played host at the Amsterdam Law School to all the major Dutch banks plus various investigation and enforcement ...

At the 26 March kick-off of the "Vaccination Alliance”, Roland Pierik (Paul Scholten Centre) presented State Secretary Paul Blokhuis (WVC) with a collection of essays that translates, roughly, as “Getting people off ...

The NWO has issued a fresh appeal for project proposals for the National Science Agenda. Proposals are being accepted for all 25 NWA routes, and some routes are directly relevant to research at the Faculty.

After occupying the Bregstein chair for a three-year term, Ruth de Bock (1964) - professor, Advocate General at the Dutch Supreme Court, philosopher - is preparing her farewells. De Bock has been endeavouring for ...

Starting 1 July, Professor of International Human Rights Yvonne Donders (1972) will be at the UvA a bit less often. She will be embarking on a six-year term as a member of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights ...

In reaction to the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence, the research area Human(e) AI has been granted Interfaculty Research Priority Area status by the University of Amsterdam. Natali Helberger was one of the ...

'Although a majority of organisations do not set out to discriminate, they may be unaware, however, that the systems they rely on can have discriminatory effects', writes Professor Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius in ...

The UvA has granted the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACES) the status of Interfaculty Research Priority Area. Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) Christina ...