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Mark B Taylor from the University of Oslo has joined ACIL as a visiting fellow until the summer break 2019. During his stay at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, Mark will be pursuing postdoctoral research ...

Anniek de Ruijter, ACELG associate professor and Director of Bureau Clara Wichmann, was interviewed by Dutch news site De Correspondent. In the interview she talks about the continued (legal) inequality between men ...

Kevin Jon Heller has been appointed Professor of Law on a fractional basis at the Australian National University.

This conference aims to reflect with legal scholars and practitioners on the reconceptualisation of the role of civil courts in today’s European private legal order. Specifically, the conference’s focus lies on the ...

Prof. René Urueña (University of Los Andes, Bogotá) exposed legal strategies of conservative social movements in Latin America during the last ACIL Lecture for 2018. The lecture focused on how Christian Evangelicals ...

Maarten den Heijer, Assistant Professor of International Law, was invited by the Dutch Senate alongside four other experts. They were asked to advise from an international law perspective whether there were any legal ...

After her lecture at ACIL on 26 November 2018, Karin Arts (International Institute of Social Studies) shared reflections on her presentation on a child rights-based approach (CRBA) to climate change with us.

In October 2018, Vid Prislan took up the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at ACIL. His research will focus on the interface between international investment law and the internet economy.

Prospective students have the possibility to apply for an early admission procedure and be admitted to the UvA-IBFD LLM in International Taxation 2019/2020 by the end of February 2019. The deadline for application ...

The UvA congratulates two students of the UvA-IBFD Adv. LL.M in International tax law, Gregorio Piran and Mattia Calabrese, on winning the international moot court competition organised by the OITI in Cancun, Mexico. ...

With their chapter “Philanthropy and Human Rights: Voluntary but not without Obligation” Yvonne Donders and Vincent Vleugel have made an important contribution to the Investigation Philanthropy by the Netherlands ...

The Legislature of Buenos Aires has formally awarded Kevin Jon Heller, Associate Professor at ACIL, as “Guest of Honor" (huésped de honor)

‘Judges in Utopia: Judicial law-making in European private law’, the five year NWO Vidi-supported research project, has a new website including a blog and details of all related publications and events.

The 2019 CSECL conference revolves around the New Deal for Consumers that was proposed by the European Commission on 11 April 2018. It focuses on issues of civil justice that the New Deal aims to address – as well ...

The MA theses of Astrid Dorigny and Sari Corrijn, both graduates of the LLM European Competition and Regulation, were shortlisted for two prestigious thesis prizes awarded by the Dutch Association of Antitrust ...

Professor Marco Loos has been appointed by the Minister of Home Affairs as independent member of the Advisory Council of the Rent Control Commission, effective as of 1st October 2018.  The Rent Control Commission ...

Dennis Weber, professor Europese Ondernemingswinst belastingen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, steunt het plan om de dividendbelasting af te schaffen. In een opinie die is gepubliceerd op de website van de UvA ...

On 8 October 2018 CSECL's Professor Marco Loos will join an expert panel at the National Consumer Dialogue in The Hague to discuss the New Deal for Consumers proposed by the European Commission

The Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) 'conducts basic research with a focus on problems of modern societies in a globalized world.’

Prof. Ashley Deeks, University of Virginia Law School, has joined the ACIL as a visiting researcher