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Alumnus Cornelis de Boer receives honorable mention for the 2024 François Prize
Posted on:04 November 2024

Cornelis de Boer, a master’s student at the University of Groningen, has received an honorable mention for the prestigious 2024 François Prize. This prize, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR), is presented every two years for the best master’s thesis on public or private international law in the Netherlands.

Dr Marlies Hesselman and Patricio Trincado Vera (LL.M.) receive YAG interdisciplinary research grant for project with FEB en UCG
Posted on:31 October 2024

Marlies Hesselman (assistant professor of International Law) and Patricio Trincado (PhD candidate), both working in the Transboundary Legal Studies Department of our faculty, have received a YAG interdisciplinary grant. With the help of that grant, they are starting a collaboration with researchers from the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and the University College Groningen (UCG).

Prof. Björn Hoops receives NWO-XS grant to study energy communities
Posted on:31 October 2024

Björn Hoops, professor of Private Law and Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, recently received a grant from the NWO SSH Open Competition XS program. Hoops received the grant for his research on private law obstacles to the flourishing of energy communities and other small-scale energy projects, titled ‘De-Scaling Private Law to Help Energy Communities Thrive’.

Dr Emil Verheul receives NWO-XS grant to study ownership of digital assets
Posted on:31 October 2024

Emil Verheul, associate professor at the Faculty of Law, recently received a grant from the NWO SGW Open Competitie XS program. Verheul received the grant for his research on ownership of digital assets, titled 'Ownership of digital assets - how future-proof is Dutch property law?'

Dr Jonas Bornemann awarded re:constitution Fellowship
Posted on:30 October 2024

Jonas Bornemann, assistant professor of European Law at our faculty, has been awarded the Re:constitution Fellowship. He will receive €15,000 from the fellowship to conduct research on migration in Berlin.

UG and Pro Facto jointly investigate satisfaction with handling of earthquake cases by District Court North Netherlands
Posted on:23 October 2024

What can the courts do to increase the quality of dispute resolution in mining claim proceedings? That is the question that Prof. Heinrich Winter, Prof. Bert Marseille, Dr Marc Wever, Joachim Bekkering (LL.M.) (UG), Christian Boxum (LL.M.) (Pro Facto), Prof. Elbert de Jong (Utrecht University) and Dr Michiel Tjepkema (Open University) set out to answer. Together they examined satisfaction with the handling of earthquake cases by the District Court for the Northern Netherlands.

Automating the taking of witness statements in criminal cases using AI
Posted on:09 October 2024

Can the taking of witness statements in criminal cases be automated using artificial intelligence (AI)? The University of Groningen (UG), Capgemini Netherlands and Scotty AI signed a letter of intent today to jointly research the development of an “AI witness interview assistant” that could potentially be used for this purpose in the future.

Pepijn Tukker, Tim van Zuijlen and Zoé Christoff awarded Stimulation Fund grant for multidisciplinary AI research
Posted on:25 September 2024

Pepijn Tukker and Tim van Zuijlen, both working in the IT Law section of our faculty, have been awarded a grant of 6,000 euros from the Interdisciplinary Projects Incentive Fund. They obtained the grant for a multidisciplinary AI research project for which they will collaborate with Dr Zoé Christoff, assistant professor of Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Rianne Herregodts and Heinrich Winter cooperate in disciplinary law research
Posted on:17 September 2024

Since 1 April 2015, the Financial Supervision Act (Wft) has required banks to subject their employees to disciplinary law. Meanwhile, more than nine years have passed since the introduction of disciplinary law. The board of Stichting Tuchtrecht Banken (STB) therefore asked the University of Groningen and Pro Facto to evaluate disciplinary law. Dr Rianne Herregodts and Prof Heinrich Winter contributed to the project.

Vehicles without a driver: who is liable if things go wrong?
Posted on:17 September 2024

In the coming years, self-driving cars may increasingly become part of daily life. But who is liable if things go wrong?

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