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Industrial Policy for a Sustainable European Economy: Toward Ownership that Works for People
The text below was drafted as the conclusions of the Conference “Transformative Ownership in Times of Overlapping Crisis”, held in Amsterdam, 5-6 October 2023. We are preparing a longer white paper on the basis of [...]
Critical approaches in EU law – still a blindspot.
Why is the space for critical legal engagements within EU law so narrow, almost non-existant? Critical legal engagements openly question the underpinnings of EU legal thinking showing how its inner logics reproduce various forms of [...]
Urban commons, from Italy to Europe
What should we do with abandoned spaces and facilities in the outskirts of our cities? How can we recover such spaces, while at the same time strengthening social cohesion in our neighbourhoods and citizens’ [...]
Legal innovation to empower the disempowered in service of a sustainable city
Amsterdam’s vision of becoming a sustainable city We have been fascinated by two small bottom-up initiatives in and around Amsterdam: the Community Land Trust in Amsterdam South-East and the so-called Zoöp. In a recent [...]
Positive Sustainable Obligations in Property Law
When it comes to living within our planetary boundaries, land use is incredibly important. Not only do industry and agriculture significantly contribute to climate change, also construction of homes and the way in which these [...]
Academic freedom and the perils of the employment contract in managerial universities – time for action
According to a recent study for the European Parliament, academic freedom in the Netherlands is under pressure. The report, which drew some attention in the Dutch debate, identifies three main sources of pressure: “developments in [...]
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