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Abstracts should be sent to EELF@rug.nl until the 15th of May 2024.

Prof. Herman Bröring en mr. Gohar Karapetian hebben financiering toegekend gekregen vanuit het KNAW Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke voor het verrichten van onderzoek naar de omvang van de Staten-Generaal in Grondwetshistorisch en rechtsvergelijkend Frans perspectief.

Heinrich Winter, Professor of Public Administration at our Faculty, has been appointed chairman of the supervisory committee for the WODC study ‘Explanatory Factors for the Volume of Youth Protection Measures (JB) and Youth Rehabilitation (JR)’.

The research project Our Rule of Law has been named Dutch finalist of the European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2024. One project from each EU country was chosen as a national finalist.

This week at the UG is all about the Education Festival. One of the components of that festival is the presentation of the Best Practice Award. This year, no fewer than four employees of the Faculty of Law have been nominated for that award.

Ghent University honors Joe Cannataci with the Amnesty International Chair for his prominent role in privacy protection.

On March 13th, an event about cybersecurity and the Network and Information systems Security (NIS) 2 Directive was organized by Evgeni Moyakine, an Assistant Professor IT law from the Faculty of Law, in collaboration with the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI.

Catherine Jasserand, assistant professor at our Faculty, has won one of the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards (PPPM) from the Future of Privacy Forum. She received the award for her paper ‘Experiments with Facial Recognition Technologies in Public Spaces: In Search of an EU Governance Framework’.

Adriaan Wierenga, LL.M., emergency law specialist and researcher at our Faculty, has been appointed a member of the supervisory committee for the WODC study 'Evaluation of Squatting Enforcement Act. Phase 2: 1 measurement'.

Paulien de Winter, assistant professor in our faculty's Department of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Public Administration, has been awarded a Research Grant from the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA).

Michel Vols, professor of public order law at our faculty, has been appointed visiting professor at Southampton Law School. Until 1 February 2025, he will combine that position with his work for the EVICT project and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).