Leiden Law Blog

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Judging the Empire: the Emperor as Judge

Scattered in the Digests are the remains of a book by the famous jurist Julius Paulus, containing reports of cases judged by several Roman emperors. The Leiden Legal History Department has won an NWO grant to reconstruct this book and its social setting.

Egbert Koops • 18-05-2012

Tax Law and Economics

The end of an area

The euro crisis is back. Greek and French elections have put strengthening fiscal rules and rescue plans back on the agenda, no matter what Chancellor Merkel says. It is time to consider a civilized divorce of an ill conceived monetary marriage.

Joop de Kort • 17-05-2012

Criminal Law and Criminology

A new Civil Rights Battle on the Horizon?

Are we going to see a new branch of Civil Rights litigation? It seems that the Supreme Court will uphold many provisions in the Arizonian ‘SB1070’ law. The law’s practical application might open the door to file numerous civil rights claims at Arizona.

Rolf van Wegberg + 1 other • 16-05-2012

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

Private Law

Desperately searching for growth

The European Commission has published a proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law (CESL) which it says is aimed at boosting trade and expanding consumer choice. Will the CESL meet these goals?

Jeroen van der Weide + 1 other • 14-05-2012

Criminal Law and Criminology

No evidence for actuarial justice in judicial decision-making in the Netherlands

We live in a risk society, many scholars contend. Attempting to eliminate all risks, criminal punishment is no longer based on guilt, but on one’s risk of jeopardizing the security of others in the future. Just theory? Or also sentencing practice?

Sigrid van Wingerden • 11-05-2012

leidenlawblog — page 88