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Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Extending Rights and Growing Responsibilities

The environmental lawyer David Boyd has written a very interesting book about the gradual process of extending the legal concept of ‘rights’ to the non-human world: not only to animals, but also – for instance – to trees, rivers and whole eco-systems.

Criminal Law and Criminology

Please Sir, may I have some more... guns

With each new school shooting, Trump (with the NRA) seems to capitalize on these tragedies to push the political agenda on gun control. The concepts of the precautionary principle and the politics of fear shape their policies

Tax Law and Economics

Dutch international tax policy: the end of letterbox companies?

The Netherlands has developed into the world’s leading hub for multinational tax planning. Will that change under growing international pressure?

Public Law

Berlusconi v. Bank of Italy: Single Supervisory Mechanism creates ‘single judicial review’

In Berlusconi and Fininvest v. Banca d’Italia, the CJEU held that within the framework of the SSM, national draft decisions preceding a final ECB decision are subject to ‘single judicial review’ at the EU Courts, precluding national jurisdiction.

A new perspective on international children's rights jurisprudence

What does the Leiden Children's Rights Observatory hold for the study of international children's rights and access to justice?

Public Law

Ambitious proposal for a single-use plastics directive becomes reality

EU Institutions have agreed on the proposal for the Directive on single-use plastics. This proposal establishes ambitious targets aimed at reducing the amount of the most commonly occurring plastic products that end up in our rivers and oceans.