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Dr Kartica van der Zon has been appointed special professor of Family Law, Law of Persons and Juvenile Law. She will hold this position alongside her current appointment at the Department of Child Law and Health Law at Leiden University. She succeeds Prof Fatih Ibili, who held the position between 2017 and 2024.

Nederland krijgt te maken met steeds gewelddadigere criminaliteit: liquidaties op klaarlichte dag, bedreigde journalisten, en explosies bij woningen. In Nederland zijn we dit niet gewend.

Nynke Vellinga, senior researcher in Technology and Law at the Faculty of Law, has received a KNAW Early Career Partnership. This will give her the opportunity to organize an interdisciplinary scientific meeting.

Thousands of demonstrations take place in the Netherlands every year. These demonstrations raise many questions about the right to demonstrate. This topic is the subject of the Public Academy for Jurisprudence on 22 May at 07.30 p.m. - 9 p.m. During this evening, we will look through a legal lens at the right to demonstrate.

'In Science' is the podcast of the University of Groningen. This episode we speak with John Morijn. Wim Brons and Hanna van Loo interview him about the dangers to the democratic rule of law and the worrying developments in the Netherlands and countries around us.

Assistant professor of Technology Law María Lorena Flórez Rojas, together with PhD candidate Anna Helena Marquez Daly, has launched the third part of the interactive game “You Are Hired” . The game provides students with a hand-on legal and tech learning experience. The third part is called “Experiential Learning Spotlight”.

Marc Wever, assistant professor of Administrative Law at our faculty, has been awarded a grant from the Gratama Foundation. With this grant, Wever will conduct research into the concept of ‘serviceability’ among government employees, legislators, judges, and citizens.

In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Noor Swart and Berend Roorda, on their online information initiative on the right of freedom to assembly, demontratierecht.nl

How can we all become less dependent on Big Tech? A topical and urgent question that is also arising within the University. Recently, a petition by a group of staff members made the rounds that called for the University to break away from Google and Amazon. Peter van de Waerdt obtained his PhD in November last year on this very subject. The significant title of his thesis: Data is power.

On 16 April 2025, the Faculty of Law at the University of Groningen will launch the first episode of its podcast The Right to News (in Dutch: Recht op Nieuws). The theme of the first episode is: “Can the government just ban organizations in the future?”

Mark Wissink, professor of private law at our faculty, recently received the Golden Pear Award in contract law. He was presented with the award by Mr., a renowned (online) magazine and legal platform.

On 19 March 2025, Evgeni Moyakine, Associate Professor IT Law, organized the workshop ‘Command and Control under the Cyber Radar: Untangling the Complexities of Attribution of State-Driven Cyber Operations’. He did this together with his student-assistant Wendy Grooten and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI.

The University of Groningen has achieved very good results in the last round of Marie Sklodowska Curie Doctoral Networks.

Het afnemen van getuigenverklaringen in strafzaken met behulp van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI), dat is in een notendop het idee achter AIWitness. Het project is een voorgenomen samenwerking tussen de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Capgemini en Scotty AI. Afgelopen woensdag kwamen bestuurders van de drie partners bijeen in Groningen.

Assistant Professor of Technology Law María Lorena Flórez Rojas has recently launched the second phase of the interactive game "You Are Hired". She did so together with PhD students Sophia Salziger and Anna Helena Marquez Daly. The game provides students with a hand-on legal and tech learning experience.

André de Hoogh, associate professor of International Law at our faculty, was reappointed by the Council of Ministers in December as a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law Issues (CAVV). His reappointment is effective as of 1 January 2025.

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The UG celebrates International Women’s Day with a special photo series: Women in Science.

University Lecturer in Technology Law María Lorenza Flórez Rojas and Senior Researcher in Technology and Law Nynke Vellinga recently launched the first phase of the interactive game “You Are Hired.” The game offers an experiential learning experience where students face real legal and technological challenges.

Adriaan Wierenga , LL.M., emergency law specialist and researcher at our Faculty, has been appointed member of the supervisory committee for the WODC study “Final evaluation of Squatting Ban Enforcement Act”.