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• Yael Diamant appointed as Professor of Financial Networks and European Property Law

  20th March 2023

  Tilburg University has appointed Yael Diamant as Professor of Financial Networks and European Property Law at Tilburg Law School, effective April 1, 2023. Her research will focus primarily on the interface of property law and financial regulatory law.

  

• Traditional sorghum beer key to conflict settlement in rural Uganda

  13th March 2023

  In rural Uganda, both clan councils and government institutions play an important role in settling local disputes. This leads to tensions around the issue of sovereignty: who ultimately decides on things? These tensions often revolve around the use of locally brewed beer in clan councils. But the two kinds of authorities also need each other to maintain their sovereignty in the district. That’s what Danse de Bondt concludes in her dissertation which she will defend at Tilburg University on Friday 17 March 2023.

  

• Study on open government in the Netherlands: On how open data both open and close

  03rd March 2023

  Government openness and transparency in the form of communicating data can sometimes overshoot the mark. However, if we see sharing data as an act of distribution between government and citizens rather than as an act of communication, it becomes clearer what good governance means.