Food for law

Private law and the legal profession can both contribute to a new Dutch food policy.

Alex Geert Castermans and Caspar van Woensel • October 20, 2014

The Embarrassing View of Australia’s Wired Fences

What do you say to a man who witnessed the drowning of his wife and children on a capsized ship? What do you say to a young adult whose child died in the bombings of Damascus? What do you say to a kid who was almost beaten to death by police forces?

Patrick van Berlo • May 31, 2014

Streets, suits and strange theories

Street criminals are disconnected from society, driven to steal by materialism. What's wrong with this analysis?

Gwen van Eijk • April 10, 2013

The end of migrant-specific policies

The Dutch government has decided to end migrant-specific policies. According to the recent Integration Paper, policies should be based on people’s future and not on their background, which is a major turnaround. Will this also imply less stigmatisation?

Joanne van der Leun • March 27, 2013

Principle-free politics

New proposals to improve deprived urban neighbourhoods in Rotterdam are discriminatory. A new policy strategy is emerging: experimenting as a way to go around existing legislation.

Gwen van Eijk • October 31, 2012

The plant is not the problem, prohibition is

Until recently, coffeeshops were free to sell cannabis to all customers, whether Dutch citizens or foreign tourists. Now, customers are required to have Dutch citizenship and a club card. Illegal trade is flourishing and residents are complaining.

Gwen van Eijk • June 27, 2012 • 1 comment

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