Minister voor Rechtsbescherming Sander Dekker trekt eenmalig 73 miljoen euro extra uit voor de sociale advocatuur. De sociale advocatuur of gefinancierde rechtsbijstand maakt rechtshulp toegankelijk voor mindervermogenden, doordat de overheid een deel van de kosten voor rechtsbijstand betaalt. Tot voor kort weigerde de minister geld vrij te maken om de ook door hemzelf erkende problemen…

Op 11 februari 1812 ondertekende de Amerikaanse gouverneur Elbridge Gerry de nieuwe indeling van kiesdistricten in zijn staat Massachussets. Deze indeling was erop gericht de partij van Gerry fors electoraal voordeel te bezorgen. Daartoe werden districtsgrenzen opgerekt, omgevormd en hertekend. Met name het district Essex County kreeg een merkwaardige vorm; een die door de Boston…

‘The lack of implementation of the D.H. judgment deeply concerns the three submitting organizations…’. This sentence is taken from a Rule 9 Communication submitted by three NGOs to the Committee of Ministers, the body that supervises the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter: ECtHR or Court). It is illustrative of…

Laten we het in dit blog eens over deugden hebben. De afgelopen jaren is er, ook vanuit het Montaigne Centrum, veel geschreven over procedurele rechtvaardigheid. Ik zeg proefschrift van Liesbeth Hulst (Experimental Legal Studies on Perceived Procedural Justice and Trust in Law and Society, 2017), ik zeg proefschrift van Hilke Grootelaar (Interacting with Procedural Justice…

You are sitting at your desk – as an academic, lawyer, policy maker or judge. You are pondering a legal issue and need to figure out what the law on this matter means for the question at hand. It can be as simple as having to decide whether a tricycle falls under the local prohibition…

Legal philosophers are often criticised for being out of touch with legal practice. At best, their theories provide a highly abstract but dated understanding of what law is. In a recent prize-winning book entitled A Realistic Theory of Law legal philosopher Brian Tamanaha argues that this often heard critique is true. Many legal philosophers fail to adequately…

From Peru to Canada to East Timor, following periods of serious conflict or gross human rights violations, societies often look to address the past in order to bring about greater accountability (trials), reparation (victim compensation), and truth (truth commissions). To date, more than 40 truth commissions have been established around the world, with the South…

Reparations are an old concept in both domestic and international law. Victims have long been repaired in some way for the harms they suffered themselves, to their families or property. Following World War II, victims received some type of reparation, usually paid by the State, for their profound losses, and just last year the Dutch…

                                                                                         Paulien van Dijk & Anna Berlee Het registreren van onderhandse akten…

Claire Loven In October 2019, The Hague Court of Appeal rendered an important judgment in the Urgenda case. Urgenda is a Dutch foundation fighting for a sustainable society, which started a legal case to force the Dutch government to adopt more stringent climate policies. In that case, The Hague Court of Appeal found a violation…