Public Law

Making the case for the rights of street children at the global and local level

The Child Law Department has produced a new report on the rights of street children in an exciting new partnership bringing the work of academia and the NGO world together, to support the 2012 International Children’s Peace Prize.

Claire Achmad • 15-10-2012

Public Law

Redressing the Discourse on the Burqa Ban

Proudly stating that the Netherlands is a tolerant country where ‘everyone is free to wear what they want’ neglects women who are oppressed, even if there are only a few.

Machteld Zee • 09-08-2012

Public Law · Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Femmes for Freedom: fighting against marital captivity

Last Monday, Sheik Al-Haddad from the London Sharia Council advocated the establishment of a Sharia council in the Netherlands, in order to help Dutch women in Islamic divorce procedures. To follow this advice would be a grave mistake.

Machteld Zee • 14-06-2012

Public Law

The European Court of Human Rights: towards a too procedural approach?

The ECtHR nowadays uses a more procedural approach when assessing an alleged human right violation. What lessons can be learned from experiences in Dutch administrative law with a procedural approach?

Jaap van Rijn van Alkemade + 1 other • 12-06-2012

Public Law

The European Convention and Environmental Protection: the Case of the Waste Crisis in Italy

How much flexibility should we allow the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in order to provide for protection of important interests? The example of the Italian waste crisis and how it led to a violation of the European Convention.

Ingrid Leijten • 05-06-2012

Public Law

No More Promised Land Waiting at the End of the Road for EU?

No matter whether one views the EU as constitutional or administrative in character, its democratic legitimacy has come under increasing pressure, the reason being the separation of power and legitimacy and the collapse of political messianism respectively

Hans-Martien ten Napel • 22-05-2012

Public Law

Data sharing is caring? The PNR agreement: an old Big Brother story told anew

Public records, banking information, correspondence…the list of data accessed by police would be incomplete without Passenger Name Records. The new EU-US PNR agreement will enter into force soon – will it also bring a higher data protection standard?

Iryna Ievdokymova • 15-05-2012

Public Law · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

What would the Commission do? A case of existing State aid.

When dealing with State aid matters, national judges and the European Commission have 'essential, but distinct, roles'. This distinction seems to be blurring, as recent Dutch case law shows.

Alke Metselaar • 08-05-2012

Public Law

How to remedy an irreparable violation?

Increasingly, the Dutch government has to deal with the distribution of limited permits or grants. A recent case shows that errors and mistakes made during award procedures used to allocate these public rights can be difficult to remedy.

Jaap van Rijn van Alkemade • 01-05-2012

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