Projects

An estimated 30,000 enforced disappearances have been committed in Mexico from the “dirty war” of the 1960s-1980s until the present day. Unresolved cases of enforced disappearances cause prolonged anguish and sorrow for the victims and are a serious failure by the State to fulfil its obligation to protect all persons from this crime. Guaranteeing the right to the truth is crucial for resolving enforced disappearances; mostly, this has ...

Although arbitration and national courts are thought to be independent from each other at first sight, upon closer inspection it is evident that they are inextricably linked. National courts render different types of judgments at the post-award stage and surely these judgments related to arbitral awards have various effects on subsequent court proceedings. The research will examine what kind of approach should be adopted regarding the effects ...

In the span of just 15 years following its accession to the WTO, China climbed to the top spot in the ranking of the world’s largest exporters of merchandise and became the fifth largest exporter of services in the world. China’s staggering export performance – unleashed by its accession – poses serious challenges for many WTO Members. It has now become common to claim that China’s export performance is attributable to its not playing by the ...

Off-line we have generally accepted ways of identifying persons, for instance by looking them in the face and checking the pictures on their identity cards. Online, these traditional identification procedures cannot be performed in a feasible manner. Therefore other technological possibilities are used, often provided by a third party, an identity provider. In part due to the particular features of the online identification procedures, and in ...

Research in the framework of the framework agreement for cooperation on the human rights, law and development sector on the theme of gender.

The researchers at LINC have the methodology and expertise with which a survey can be organized with the employees of the Buildings Agency about integrity at work. They conduct this survey from the development of the surveys up to and including the processing and analysis of the dataset.

Previous research focused on the role of moral foundations and the retributive and restorative justice orientations on the decision to participate in Restorative Justice (RJ) processes, specifically victim-offender mediation. Building on those previous findings, this research project is focused on the analysis of the effect of morally framing the introduction of the mediation process, in the initial letter sent by the mediation services to ...