For all the justified concerns about the rule of law and human rights today, there are also inspiring elements and innovations. One is that of human rights cities, often defined as local communities and socio-political processes where human rights play a key role as fundamental values and guiding principles. The city of Utrecht was the...
This blog has been cross-posted from KB LAB. See the original blogpost here. ‘BIAS – Towards a Bias Impact Assessment Scale for digitised cultural heritage collections’. Under this ambitious title, we – two legal scholars specialising in the interplay between law, technology and culture – started our Researcher-in-Residence (RiR) project at the National Library of...
In recent decades, governance structures around the world have undergone significant transformation, with multilevel systems emerging as a dominant model. In this context, multilevel governance has emerged as a key concept, highlighting how power is shared both vertically (across levels) and horizontally (among actors at the same level) to shape policies, deliver services, and provide...