Theme Law | Review

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Reviews on theme Law

UN vlag

UN: Violence in Gaza Is Genocide | Current Affairs Lecture with Scholar of Law Henri de Waele and Historian Paul Reef

The UN commission investigating violence in Gaza and the Palestinian territories has declared that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. What are the consequences of this statement? Why did it take so long to be made?

Cover van het boek van Ybo Buruma

The Rule of Law Under Pressure? | Lecture and conversation with Ybo Buruma, lawyer and former justice of the Supreme Court, philosopher Laura Davies and historian Luc Bulten

Learn from Ybo Buruma, doyen of Dutch criminal law, who will be talking to philosopher Laura Davies and historian Luc Bulten about the question: what is the state of the Dutch rule of law?

Beeld bij programma Kiezer of kapitaal: van wie is de democratie?

Voter or Capital: Who Defines Democracy? | Lecture, conversation and music with political scientist Joep van Lit, legal philosopher Maxim van Asseldonk and music by Teun van Laake

How resilient are democracies to the power of ultra-rich? Every vote counts and every person is politically equal in a democracy - in theory. But how does theory compare with reality?

Hoe democratieën ten onder gaan | Lezing en gesprek met politicoloog Carolien van Ham en classicus André Lardinois

How Democracies Collapse | Lecture and Conversation with Political Scientist Carolien van Ham and Classicist André Lardinois

Is democracy inherently fragile? Learn from political scientist Carolien van Ham and classicist André Lardinois how we look at democracy nowadays.

Familievloggers: je hele jeugd op YouTube | Radboud Reflects @Go Short met filosoof Femke Takes en jurist Raphaël Gellert

Family Vloggers: Your Whole Childhood On YouTube | Radboud Reflects @Go Short with philosopher Femke Takes and lscholar of law Raphaël Gellert

What if your parents filmed your entire childhood, and put it on the Internet as well? This is reality for many children of so called family vloggers. What consequences can it have when your entire childhood is viewable on YouTube?

Beeld van Trump en Musk ten behoeve van het Actualiteitencollege over DOGE

Trump, Musk and DOGE | Current Affairs Lecture with political scientist Joep van Lit and philosopher of law Wout Cornelissen

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planning to dismantle large parts of the American civil services to cut on government expenses and degrees bureaucracy. What should we think of these developments?

Beeld bij Actualiteitencollege over contentmoderatie op socials

Less Content Moderation on Social Media. Freedom or Chaos? | Current Affairs Lecture with scholar of law Pieter Wolters, philosopher Bart Jacobs and researcher Yana van de Sande

Facebook founder and Meta-CEO Marc Zuckerberg is going to significantly scale back content moderation on Facebook and elsewhere. Is this a way to increase freedom of speech, or are we rather moving toward a post-truth era with this decision?

Het recht om te demonstreren, het onderwijsprotest geschrapt | Actualiteitencollege met jurist Michiel van Emmerik en historicus Paul Reef

The Right to Demonstrate, the Cancellation of the Education Protest | Current Affairs lecture with scholar of law Michiel van Emmerik and historian Paul Reef

Learn from scholar of law Michiel van Emmerik and political historian Paul van Reef on the right to demonstrate.

Beeld van een doolhof gemaakt van touwen met knopen erin

Drowning In Regulation | Lecture and conversation with lawyer Rowin Jansen and ethicist Marcel Becker

We are completely surrounded by rules and regulations. Learn from lawyer Rowin Jansen and philosopher Marcel Becker where the proliferation of rules comes from, what the consequences are and whether it could all be easier.

Stadsaanzicht Curacao

The Impact of Slavery on the Former Netherlands Antilles | Lecture and conversation by anthropologist and Thinker in Residence Rose Mary Allen and scholar of religion Justine Bakker

Learn from anthropologist and Thinker in Residence Rose Mary Allen about the impact of slavery on the cultural identity of the former Netherlands Antilles.

Tikt de tijd voor TikTok? | Actualiteitencollege

Is Time Ticking for TikTok? | Current Affairs Lecture with behavioural scientist Loes Pouwels and political scientist Chris Nijhuis

TikTok may be banned in the USA. Will that happen in Europe, and in the Netherlands? What would that mean? Learn more from to behavioural scientist Loes Pouwels and political scientist Chris Nijhuis.

Hoe kunnen we de rechtsstaat in Europa verdedigen?

Anti-democratic Politics in Europe | Lecture and conversation with legal scholar Petra Bárd and political scientist Joep van Lit

Governments in Poland, Hungary and Romania limit civic liberties. Is this the beginning of the end of the rule of law in Europe?