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The 18th edition of the UCERF symposium about current developments in family law took place on 11 April 2024.

UCERF provided legal comment at Argentina's request to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on care as a human right, based on national and European law.

UCERF researcher Jet Tigchelaar spoke at the annual VSR conference, organised by the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice

Researchers affiliated with Utrecht University's law faculty investigated the rise of child and family influencers on social media in the Netherlands

Hanneke van Eijken is the first researcher to hold the new Alex Brenninkmeijer chair in Rule of Law & Democracy at Utrecht University.

From 1 January 2024, Maaike Huijzer started a PhD at UCERF, consisting of legal-empirical research on informal families,

On 28 and 29 September 2023, the Institutions for Conflict Resolution (COI) Conference took place, around the theme 'Towards institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution'.

The seminar 'Property rights and gender: enabling women's human rights', organised by SIM and UCERF, took place at Utrecht University on 15 November 2023

UCERF PhD researcher Fiore Schuthof presented her paper about Decision-Making Rights of Persons with Dementia at the 33rd Alzheimer Europe conference.

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