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09/12/2022

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/comipindigimarkts2023-call-abstracts

We invite everyone working on the intersection of competition law, IP law and/or competition economics to have a look at the Call for Abstracts for 'Competition and IP in Digital Markets - the 2023 conference'.

Digitalization and sustainability have been identified as a top priority in the EU’s Green Deal to ensure a truly competitive and sustainable digital single market. This strategy not only feeds into the competitiveness of the EU, but it will also ensure the entry and sustainability of a diverse se...

24/11/2022

Yesterday (23 November) METRO researcher Minzhen Jiang successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title 'Compensation and Prevention for Damage Resulting from Offshore Drilling in China'.

Many congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her supervisors Prof. Michael Faure and Prof. Ton Hartlief!

29/06/2022

Recently Qian Li (PhD researcher at METRO) and Niels Philipsen (Vice-Director of METRO) wrote a blog on AI-enabled price discrimination: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2022/06/why-ai-enabled-price-discrimination-not-always-undesirable-lessons-law-and-economics. See the Law Blogs Maastricht website for more recent blogs on competition law and intellectual property, published for METRO and IGIR in the context of .

Digitalization has gradually changed business models and reshaped human lifestyles. The rise of business models based on the collection and processing of consumer data allows undertakings to charge business customers and final consumers different prices for the same goods or services, offered at pre...

13/06/2022

You can register here for the event 'Debating the future of the Energy Charter Treaty' , co-organized by METRO and held at UM Campus Brussels (and via Zoom) on 29 June.

The EU, as the key driver of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) Modernisation, has shown its determination to reform the ECT investment protection standards and the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, while aligning the ECT with EU climate policy enshrined in the European Green Deal. Af...

03/05/2022

On 21 April Michael Faure participated in an Early Career Partnership Conference, co-organized by Michael, Elbert de Jong (Utrecht University), Ivo Giesen (Utrecht University) and Peter Mascini (Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam) on “Complexity and the public role of civil courts in health and environmental matters”.

Michael gave a talk at the end of the conference “Pathways for future research and further discussion”.

24/03/2022

On 21 March, Amidou Yekeni successfully defended his PhD thesis "La Mise En Oeuvre Du Droit Applicable Aux Changements Climatiques: Le Cas Du Benin" at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.

Congratulatons to Dr. Yekeni and his supervisors Prof. Michael Faure (METRO) and Prof. F.J. Aivo (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin)!

17/02/2022

Recently Niels Philipsen was interviewed by Dutch news radio station BNR on the question whether there are legal or economic arguments to split up Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. The podcast of that interview is available online. Philipsen also wrote a blog on the topic.

Web links to the BNR podcast and the blog for the Faculty of Law can be found in the comments below.

11/02/2022

On Monday 7 February, Michael Faure was on Dutch public television (in the program 'Radar'), as an invited expert on insurance. Topic: the (lack of) insurance against damage caused by flooding in the Netherlands. Watch it again here:

Je huis is verzakt door het gevolg van een hete zomer of overstroomt door het overlopen van een rivier. Door klimaatverandering krijgen we steeds meer te maken met klimaatschade, maar dit is lang niet altijd verzekerbaar. Radar zoekt uit: wat is nu wel en niet verzekerd?

05/02/2022

Yesterday, our colleague Prof. Sarah Schoenmaekers gave her inaugural lecture at the Open University in Heerlen. Many congratulations to Sarah on behalf of the Metro community! ‍🎓

De Europese Unie is één economische ruimte en streeft tegelijk naar 'een rijke verscheidenheid van cultuur en taal'. In haar oratie 'De positie van cultuur binnen de EU: correctie, affectie, essentie?' geeft prof. dr. Sarah Schoenmaekers antwoord op de vraag: hoe houdt de wetgeving van de EU effectief rekening met cultuur en taal en met de steeds sterker wordende nationale, regionale en lokale gevoeligheden? Zij nam haar luisteraars vandaag mee op juridische cultuurreis.

Sarah Schoenmaekers, van harte gefeliciteerd met je oratie!

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11/01/2022

On 10 January 2022 Madame Akouve Okpè (Marie) Abalo from the University of Lomé in Togo defended her thesis with the title "La mise en oeuvre du régime international du climat en Afrique de l’Ouest: Cas du Togo, du Niger et du Burkina Faso" (The implementation of the international climate change regime in West-Africa: the case of Togo, Niger and Burkina Faso).

The thesis project was supervised by Prof. Michael Faure (METRO, Maastricht University) and Prof. Koffi Ahadzi-Nounou (University of Lomé )and took place in the framework of a joint supervision agreement between the University of Maastricht and the University of Lomé. In the thesis commission questions were asked inter alia by Prof. Sarah Schoenmaekers en Prof. Mariolina Eliantonio, as well as by Prof. Luc Lavrysen (President of the Belgian Constitutional Court), Prof. Anne Pieter van der Mei and Prof. Nicolas de Sadeleer.

23/12/2021

Please see our forthcoming event and call for abstracts:

Competition & IP in the Digital Markets: A Comparative & Inter-disciplinary PerspectiveFollowing digitalization of even the most traditional brick and mortar...

30/11/2021

On Wednesday 8 December at 10.00, METRO researcher Huizi Ai will defend her PhD thesis "Protecting Societal Interests in Corporate Takeovers: A Comparative Analysis of the Regulatory Framework in the U.K., Germany and China" in an online ceremony. There will be a videostream via phd-defence.maastrichtuniversity.nl and via YouTube.

Huizi Ai is a Ph.d candidate of METRO and ICGI at Maastricht University. Her research field is in corporate law, corporate governance and Law&Economics. Her Ph.d topic is "The protection of the relevant societal interests in takeovers in the UK, Germany and China".