Restoring trust between public law and citizens
How independent is the judiciary? How can individual rights and the public interest be balanced? Prof. Marc Hertogh, professor of Socio-Legal Studies, and his research group Public Trust & Public Law see many interesting possibilities for answering these questions.
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