Public Law Loss & Damage Fund: Justice or charity? The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage was hailed as a historic breakthrough, but if contributions remain voluntary, it risks remaining symbolic rather than delivering real climate justice. Cato van Driel • 12-03-2026
Private Law Authorship must be demonstrated A person who claims to be a copyright holder must ‘provide any reasonably available evidence enabling the court to satisfy itself with a sufficient degree of certainty that the applicant is the rightholder’. Dirk Visser • 09-05-2023
Public Law The Portuguese Government’s ban on short-term rentals: A breach of the Services Directive? The Portuguese Government has announced a package of legislative measures to alleviate the country’s housing shortage. However, these measures seem to constitute a disproportionate limitation on the freedom to provide services. Pedro Petiz Viana • 07-03-2023
Public Law 'They can destroy our houses. But they cannot destroy our values' The response of the Council of Europe to the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Rick Lawson • 17-03-2022
Private Law Corporate raiders at the gate: Screening of investments in Dutch companies by non-EU parties The European Screening Regulation allows Member States to screen investments in national companies by parties from outside the EU. The grounds for this are very broad. Jelle Nijland + 1 other • 20-04-2020
