Almost forty countries around the world currently allow same-sex couples to marry. While most of these decisions were made through legislative action, petitioners have increasingly also turned to courts to obtain marriage equality or ‘equal marriage rights’, i.e. the numerous rights and benefits ...

Freedom of contract plays a key role in many of our legal and public debates, but its meaning is rarely explicitly interrogated. Often it is simply assumed that freedom of contract stands for the idea that the law should just enforce private deals and otherwise get out of the way.

The modern law of secured credit in Europe is deeply rooted in Roman law. Security rights such as pledge and hypothec are the outcome of developments that emerged during the first centuries of the Common Era.

This book explores the pragmatic evolution of these rights, shaped not by abstract t...

In her ‘State of the Union’ of September 2025 Ursula von der Leyen called for a more independent and resilient Europe. In her 2024 Political Guidelines she stressed that

strategic technologies, such as AI, space and biotech should be ‘made in Europe’. A European preferencing system in procuremen...

The United Nations (UN) is the world’s foremost international organisation. Its numerous bodies work on a broad spectrum of issues, including the most pressing challenges facing humankind. While the scope of the UN’s activities extends far beyond questions of international law, the UN is an entit...

This book explores a neglected area of criminal procedure, and contributes to a broader debate on the challenges judges face today due to, among others, the evolving relationship between science and law, information overload, and digitalisation.