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Dutch feminist magazine Opzij published an interview with Anniek de Ruijter, ACELG associate professor and director of Bureau Clara Wichmann. De Ruijter: there has been progress on women's rights in the Netherlands ...

Have you recently finished your PhD? Are you interested in a postdoc position to further pursue your research in European law and governance? We would like to invite you to apply for a Marie Curie grant together with ...

Researchers interested in participating in this summer school can submit papers until 28 February 2019. The summer school will bring together PhD candidates, advanced master students, and postdoctoral researchers (<3 ...

The Regional Finals of the European Law Moot Court (ELMC) competition will take place on 1 and 2 February 2019 at the University of Ljubljana. The ELMC is the largest and most prestigious international competition on ...

Over the past decade we have witnessed an increased readiness and growing infrastructure on the part of the EU and its member states to engage in emergency governance. On 7 December 2018, ACELG, ACES and Queen’s ...

Anniek de Ruijter, ACELG associate professor and Director of Bureau Clara Wichmann, was interviewed by Dutch news site De Correspondent. In the interview she talks about the continued (legal) inequality between men ...

The MA theses of Astrid Dorigny and Sari Corrijn, both graduates of the LLM European Competition and Regulation, were shortlisted for two prestigious thesis prizes awarded by the Dutch Association of Antitrust ...

As of September 2018, Lara Talsma will start as the Clinical Lecturer / Coordinator of the Amsterdam Law Clinic and as a PhD Candidate at the ACIL and the ACELG, working on a research project in Business & Human Rights.

As of 15 September Dr Laurens Ankersmit is assistant professor in EU law at the University of Amsterdam. His research interest is the impact of international and European economic law on environmental protection. ...

As of 3 September 2018, Sophie Dura will start her PhD research at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. Her PhD research is titled 'a European Pillar of Social Rights: Expectations, Implementation ...

Marta Morvillo is a constitutional lawyer interested in the interaction between technical and democratic legitimacy and in particular in the role of experts and technical knowledge in constitutionally relevant ...

Katja Swider successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘A rights-based approach to statelessness’ on the 5th of July 2018. She argues that current policies on statelessness fail to prioritize the empowerment of ...

On the 13th of June, Filipe Brito Bastos, post-doctoral researcher at ACELG, defended his doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute of Florence.

On 4 May Nik de Boer succesfully defended his thesis 'Judging European Democracy - National Constitutional Review of European Law and its Democratic Legitimacy'

Maria Weimer has been invited to provide expert advice for the work of the Special Committee on Pesticides of the European Parliament, which investigates the recent EU authorisation of the active substance ...

Anniek de Ruijter about women's quotas in the Netherlands.

Pierluigi graduated in Law summa cum laude at the University of Pisa (2014). He then trained as a research assistant at the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) at the University of Leicester, ...

Floris de Witte is Associate Professor at LSE Law. He teaches EU law in the LL.B, LL.M and MSc. Floris' research deals with the interaction between EU law and political theory, with particular emphasis on free ...

Filipe Brito Bastos is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. He is also completing his doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute of Florence, where he ...

Thursday 11 January 2018, the first feedback sessions provided by ACELG-PhD candidates to Master students European law. The sessions, consisting of twenty-minutes of one-on-one feedback, were set up this year in ...

The emerging interaction between public health and security policies in the EU raises a number of important questions of effectiveness and legitimacy. Through a recently published special issue, we take the first ...

Associate Professor and ACELG researcher Kati Cseres has received a grant by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to continue her research on the role of consumers in public services markets

Anniek de Ruijter, Assistant Professor of European Law, has been awarded a Veni grant for her research into improved legal safeguards at the EU level, aimed at tackling major public health crises such as outbreaks of ...

As of 1 September 2017, Wiebe Hommes will start his PhD research at the Amsterdam Center for European Law and Governance. His PhD research will focus on assessing the creation, discovery and evolution of European ...

As of September, Teresa Cabrita will start as PhD Candidate at the ACELG and the ACIL, working on a project on the interplay between EU and international criminal law.

The City of Amsterdam acts upon recommendations put forward by ACELG researcher Annette Schrauwen and by Tesseltje de Lange in a report on British citizens after Brexit.

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In the months April to July 2016, ACELG welcomes Beatrice Russo, PhD fellow at the Università degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli, for a research stay in Amsterdam.

With the elections for the Dutch Parliament less than a month away, members of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Government launch a website to check claims about the EU against the legal facts

After months of preparatory work, the new research group ‘Law and Justice Across Borders’ met for its founding meeting on 26 January 2017. The group has been provisionally approved as a Faculty Research Priority Area ...

ACELG is pleased to announce that Marta Morvillo, University of Bologna, has received a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for a research project on ‘The Constitutional Place of Expertise’.

Maria Weimer, senior researcher at ACELG, has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation as per 1 January 2017.

As of 1 January 2017 Dominique Barnhoorn has started her PhD research at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. Her PhD research will focus on the law and practice of EU law enforcement agencies ...

Pieter Jan Kuijper, professor of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations, will receive the Maastricht Prize of International Law, successor to the The Hague Prize for International Law, on 8 December in ...

The newly founded journal 'Europe and the World: A Law Review' aims to contribute to legal scholarship on the place of Europe in the world, with a particular but by no means exclusive focus on the EU's external ...

In the months September to December 2016, ACELG welcomes Zurab Gvelesiani, PhD fellow at the Central European University, Budapest, for a research stay in Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance is pleased to announce that Christina Eckes has been appointed Professor of European Law. She will also assume the position of the Director of ACELG.

The 2016 ACELG annual conference will be preceded by a PhD Workshop, in which selected PhD students will be given the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work in the field covered by the topic of the ...

On 30 June, ACELG organized a debate on the British No to membership of the European Union. The video is now available.

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