Justice Entrepreneurship is the first course in the Netherlands where university law students apply the design thinking method to a societal legal problem (such as divorce, debt or migration), while also developing entrepreneurship skills and working towards a sustainable solution in society. In this project we will design this course in such a way that it is accessible to MBO, HBO and WO law courses and enables other teachers to teach Justice Entrepreneurship themselves.

At this event we will bring together stakeholders for the formation of a consortium for articulating innovative regulatory solutions for complex interlinked health-life problems. Such problems arise from the fact that health of human beings is inextricably linked to other life forms on this planet and to the environment in which we live. Health-life problems are central to objectives of the NWA route Kwaliteit van de leefomgeving, which expressly indicates that this topic in the NWA is focused on the effects of environmental change on human health. The purpose of the event is to develop a research agenda for the regulation of health-life problems both in the short and the long term, to identify the partners with whom that research agenda can be implemented, and to build a network and relationships with a view to formulating sustainable solutions for health-life problems.

Until there is a vaccine or treatment, social distancing and stay at home orders are the most important measures to mitigate the effects of the Coronavirus. The crucial challenge is how to ensure that people will comply with these measures. This study gathers real-time data to assess, whether, to what extent, and why people comply. The data is vital for policy makers to increase the efficacy of these measures in attempting to contain the Coronavirus.

The DILEMA project sets out to ensure that military AI technologies support but never replace critical judgement and decision-making by human soldiers. The research team analyses why human control over military technologies must be guaranteed, where it is most critical to maintain the role of human agents (in particular to ensure legal compliance and accountability), and how to technically ensure that military AI-based technologies are designed and deployed in line with public values and the rule of law.

The project explores how States and important non-state actors, such as multinational corporations have assisted in the mass atrocities that have been committed since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Syria in 2011. After having mapped out the nature and scope of assistance to mass atrocities in a modern-day and brutal armed conflict, the project will categorise the available legal accountability mechanisms. This includes the possibility of criminal and civil accountability in the Syrian legal order, in the justice systems where the assisters operate from, and forms of international accountability mechanisms (Syria Tribunal). The project will finally assess the quality of the possible options for accountability, in terms of being efficient (victim dimension) and fair (defendant dimension). The conclusions may point to improving existing accountability options, filling gaps in what is available and prioritising among what is available. This case study will add a crucial practical and empirical component to the VICI-Project on Secondary Liability for International Crimes. Strong cross-fertilisation with the VICI Project is envisaged in two ways. First, the ongoing research in the VICI Project will feed the Project with theoretical bases and research in respect of the scope of secondary liability as it stands today. Second, the Project’s case study will strengthen the ongoing VICI Project with in depth application of the law to an actual case, generating more insight into the law’s practical significance, and allows for interim results to be tested.