René Smits was elected Teacher of the Year 2020 during the Education Day. We warmly congratulate him with this honorable appointment!

Irma van den Berg of the Lawyers for Lawyers foundation has been named the 'Most socially involved lawyer' in the Netherlands this year by SDU publishers. In the nineties she graduated from the Amsterdam Law School. ...

Earlier this month, at the Annual Conference of the Stichting Ontwikkelingen Mededingingsrecht, our former LLM students European Competition law and Regulation Lousine Hovhanisian and Mia Monas have won a shared 2nd ...

Ágnes Sipiczki, former LLM student EU Competition Law and Regulation and ACELG Research Assistant, has won the 1st thesis prize at the ACM Dag van de Scriptie’ thesis competition.

Are algorithmic news recommenders – and the possible filter bubbles they create - a threat to the democratic role of the media? Or do they actually represent an opportunity to advance the values and goals that we ...

How do I create a poll in Zoom? How do I put a recorded video on Canvas? Education starts at the end of October in block 2. Almost all education will be online, with the necessary challenge that comes with it. The ...

Do people obey the rules during the corona crisis? Benjamin Van Rooij and Chris Reinders Folmer, researchers of the Center for Law and Behavior (C-Lab) investigated in their project 'Compliance with COVID-19 ...

Today, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) announced the launch of the research project “Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society” (CPT project). The ambitious initiative is ...

Does proctoring comply with privacy rules? Has sufficient consideration been given to alternatives? The Faculty Student Council has asked the Faculty Board a number of questions about the use of proctoring at the ...

Amsterdam Law School will use proctoring as a pilot at the end of the current academic year for the re-exam 'Bestuursprocesrecht'. After evaluation of the pilot, and depending on the situation at that time, the ...

The usually prescribed dress suit could stay in the closet; a suit with tie was sufficient for the digital ceremony. What's it like to defend your thesis online? We speak with Tjebbe Gerverdinck, the first online PhD ...

As our research funding increasingly depends on European grants (both individual grants and consortium grants), it is essential that this form of funding is not jeopardised by EU cuts. That is why we ask all faculty ...

Professor Law & Society Benjamin van Rooij conducts research into compliance with corona measures during and after a lockdown. Recently, fierce anti-discrimination protests broke out in the United States, and the ...

René Smits (Lecturer of the Law of the Economic and Monetary Union) has been chosen by students of the Amsterdam Law School as Lecturer of the Year 2020. ‘A very gratifying conclusion of my professorship three months ...

Because of the measures around corona a lot has changed: we work from home, students follow online classes. Events are also shifting to the digital world. Event coordinator at Marketing & Communication Inez de Ridder ...

'People often don't know what rights they have. In order to help them, we help them with their questions'. Initiator Anne Coppelmans founded Juridisch Advies-Covid-19 to help people during and after the corona crisis.

Amsterdam Law School is not going to use online proctoring in the fifth examination block of this academic year. The UvA decided last week that faculties can opt for this system of surveillance if there is no ...

Janne E. Nijman, Professor of History and Theory of International Law at the UvA Law School, has been appointed Professor of International law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. She will combine this part-time ...

Not everyone will be able to work from home under the best possible conditions, which may have led to physical complaints by now. If that is the case for you, check for yourself whether you can still improve ...

Shortly before the coronacrisis took hold of the Netherlands, Linde Bryk started as Director Amsterdam Law Clinics at the Amsterdam Law School. In this position she will continue to put the five thematic clinics on ...