In his inaugural lecture, Peter Mascini takes issue with the goal of scientific purity in the behavioral study of law, conceived as the deliberate choice to postulate a limited number of universally a
In this inaugural lecture, delivered at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on 21 November 2014, Elaine Mak outlines how legal research, integrating comparative and empirical methods, can provide insight
From an economic perspective, author Louis Visscher discusses three forms of 'debated damages' in this book. First, pain and suffering damages for personal injuries are regarded as too low in the Neth
In December 2011, Yuwen Li was appointed as Professor of Chinese Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. In her inaugural speech - which is documented in this book - Professor Li addressed the fundament
In his valedictory lecture, The Roundabouts of European Law and Economics, Prof. Dr Roger Van den Bergh critically reflects upon three decades of research in European Law and Economics. He discusses t
In his inaugural lecture, Niels Philipsen discusses the (potential) role of private actors in the regulation of work-related risks, such as industrial accidents and occupational diseases.
On 6 December 2012, Christoph Engel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn and Professor of Law at the Universities of Bonn and Osnabruck, was installed as hold
