# Latest blog articles
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- ## [Statelessness in Iran: Understanding the Challenges of Nationality and Gender Discrimination](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2026/03/statelessness-iran-understanding-challenges-nationality-and-gender-discrimination)
Nationality forms the cornerstone of legal identity, determining access to fundamental civil, political, and social rights. It affects who can participate in society, receive education, work legally, and access healthcare. Individuals without nationality face statelessness, a condition that limits...
23 March 2026
Law
- ## [Law in a Changing World – the 2026 Annual Conference of the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2026/03/law-changing-world-%E2%80%93-2026-annual-conference-maastricht-centre-law-jurisprudence)
On 27 and 28 January 2026, the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence (MCLJ) organised its second annual conference with a theme inspired by these issues: *Law in a Changing World.* The conference’s purpose was to tackle key aspects of this changing reality, investigate its causes, and study novel...
12 March 2026
Law
- ## [Law and Revolution? A Reading of Pašukanis](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2026/02/law-and-revolution-reading-pa%C5%A1ukanis)
On 26 November 2025, M-EPLI welcomed Professor Michele Spanò, Associate Professor in Social Philosophy and Law at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. His talk explored the emergence of legal norms and their operation in modern society though the lens of Evgeny Pašukanis’ 1924 work, *The General Theory...*
27 February 2026
Law
- ## [Beyond Red Flags: Improving Financial Anomaly Detection under the Wwft](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2026/02/beyond-red-flags-improving-financial-anomaly-detection-under-wwft)
**The Netherlands struggles in its fight against illicit financial activity. Despite its extensive regulatory framework, detection of anomalous financial patterns is no simple task due to the many uncertainties involved. Furthermore, as financial data volumes grow and fraudulent patterns remain partly**...
26 February 2026
Law
- ## [Cross-border Financial Police Investigations](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2026/01/cross-border-financial-police-investigations)
Tracing and confiscating criminal assets is an essential part of the fight against organised crime, because it provides better insight into the financial logistics of criminal operations and "hits criminals where it really hurts: in their wallets." However, the challenges posed by cross-border...
30 January 2026
Law
- ## [Known Unknowns: A Macro-Meso-Micro Socioeconomic Approach to Uncover the Dark Number of Victims of Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2025/12/known-unknowns-macro-meso-micro-socioeconomic-approach-uncover-dark-number-victims)
[These last few weeks](https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/demissionair-minister-paul-schrapte-op-eigen-houtje-plan-tegen-uitbuiting-arbeidsmigranten), Minister Paul of Social Affairs and Employment of the outgoing cabinet has been in the news for unilaterally deciding no longer to gradually phase out the Dutch regulation that allows temporary employment agencies to [deduct a quarter of the minimum wage from migrant workers...](https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/10/30/regeling-voor-huisvestingskosten-arbeidsmigranten-blijft-bestaan)
17 December 2025
Law
- ## [The Need to Constantly Revisit Our Understanding of ‘Ownership’](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2025/12/need-constantly-revisit-our-understanding-%E2%80%98ownership%E2%80%99)
On 12th November 2025, the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI), together with the Research Project “Revocable Properties”, organised a Roundtable on 'Novel and Recurrent Challenges in Ownership’, in which, next to more general-theoretical property questions, more in particular the...
17 December 2025
Law
- ## [Sexual safety, the budget, and the final MUMC+ proposal](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2025/12/sexual-safety-budget-and-final-mumc-proposal)
Dear members of the UM Community,
As the year approaches its end, the University Council can look back on a busy period. Our new members are becoming more and more familiar with the work of the Council and are making excellent contributions. Over the past few months, we have focussed on a range of...
16 December 2025
University Council
- ## [Property & Democracy](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2025/12/property-democracy)
On 16 April 2025, M-EPLI hosted Professor Dr Bram Akkermans from Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law and Professor Dr Lorna Fox O’Mahony from the University of Essex, England, to discuss the evolving role of private property within liberal democratic systems. Their proposal centred on the idea...
9 December 2025
Law
- ## [The Decennial Jubilee of Ius Commune in the Making](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2025/12/decennial-jubilee-ius-commune-making)
On 27 November 2025, the [tenth edition](http://www.iuscommune.eu/html/activities/2025/2025-11-27/workshop_2.pdf) of the workshop series on Ius Commune in the Making took place within the [29th Ius Commune Conference](https://www.iuscommune.eu/ActiviteitDetail.aspx?ActivityId=671&language=English) organised by the University of Amsterdam. This blog entry reproduces a public address by one of the members of the organising committee of that workshop series...
9 December 2025
Law