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 • March 12, 2026
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 • May 09, 2023
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 • March 07, 2023
'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 • March 17, 2022
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 and Cees de Groot • April 20, 2020
