News UCERF

The magazine is a product of interdisciplinary cooperation in Utrecht child and youth research, with contributions from law, economics and governance researchers.

On Thursday, April 13, 2023, the 17th UCERF symposium on current developments in family law took place with about 120 participants in University Hall.

Report of the webinar 'Developments in descent law' organised with the support of UCERF (Utrecht University) and Anton de Kom University of Surinam

Report of the online panel 'Strengthening the child’s right to participate in family law' on 27 October 2022, organised by Charlotte Mol of UCERF (Utrecht University)

The 10th annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law will be held at Utrecht University. We welcome paper proposals.

On 12 April, the webinar "Who is afraid of gender (diversity)?" took place, organised by UCERF's Lorena de Sosa

UCERF researcher Lorena Sosa co-authored a publication on the CoE Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention)

Florianne Peters van Neijenhof, law student at Utrecht University, won the award for the best comparative law paper on 14 March

On 8 March, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive to combat violence against women, based partly on UCERF research by Lorena Sosa

A heteronormative marriage model still lies at the basis of parentage law. Laureen Hu's research focuses on rethinking this from a legal and ethical study.