In the media
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Denmark is an unsuitable model country for Dutch asylum policy 23 September 2024
Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor of Immigration Law and member of the Dutch Advisory Council on Migration, explains on Dutch radio programme ‘Met he...
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What next – emergency measures or an emergency Act? 23 September 2024
Negative advice from top officials shows that declaring an asylum crisis in the Netherlands based on emergency immigration law is unacceptable from a ...
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Bart Custers on tech companies involved in criminal activities 20 September 2024
Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecuti...
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How Princess Laurentien became entangled in a politically sensitive government responsibility 17 September 2024
Research conducted by Dutch news programme ‘Nieuwsuur’ into the work carried out by Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands for victims of the childcar...
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Emergency measures to tackle ‘asylum crisis’ are not legally feasible 17 September 2024
The Dutch government wants to use emergency measures in its asylum policy. Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber believes this has also been legally tested....
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Children are afraid to say the wrong thing to judges in divorce proceedings 16 September 2024
Do courts take children's experiences properly into account in divorce proceedings? Research by Villa Pinedo shows that children often fear saying the...
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Bart Custers comments on Telegram’s catalogue of crimes 13 September 2024
Instant messaging app Telegram is not faring well in the news – the reason being the illicit activities occurring on the platform. Professor Bart Cust...
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Does the Netherlands still have an extraparliamentary cabinet? 10 September 2024
A clear, unambiguous definition of an extraparliamentary cabinet is still lacking from the political arena of The Hague. Caroline van der Plas, Farmer...
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Abuse of Vlaardingen foster child reveals youth care problems 10 September 2024
Months after the case of the abused foster child from Vlaardingen (Zuid-Holland) came to light, many questions still remain. Why was the child not lis...
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Self-employed workers uneasy about approach to sham self-employment 10 September 2024
The Dutch Tax and Customs Authority is planning to start enforcing income tax and contribution obligations again following a moratorium lasting severa...
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Bart Custers writes blog post on judge who used ChatGPT 09 September 2024
This month, it came out that a subdistrict court judge used ChatGPT to formulate a ruling. The judge included some text generated by the popular AI ch...
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Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo 09 September 2024
Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo den...
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Bart Custers discusses arrest of Telegram CEO in 'Trouw' 09 September 2024
Pavel Durov, CEO of chat and messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France last week. The Russian tech billionaire flew into Paris by private jet and...
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Complaints from universities about student use of ChatGPT are crocodile tears 06 September 2024
Universities should not be surprised that students use ChatGPT, write Leiden University lecturers Femke Klaver and Alexander de Wit in Dutch newspaper...
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Major errors made by UWV on WIA benefits 05 September 2024
Many people who are unfit for work received too much or too little in benefits payments for years because mistakes were made in calculating the wages ...