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Karen Alter at iCourts in March 2025

23 - 28 March 2025

Katherine Richardson receives Planet Earth Award

Katherine Richardson receives the AWS Planet Earth Award for her contributions in science and science-policy interfaces.

Katherine Richardson receives Planet Earth Award

Katherine Richardson receives the AWS Planet Earth Award for her contributions in science and science-policy interfaces.

Selfhood is a precondition for true community

In his new book Being We, Professor Dan Zahavi shares the results of five years of research into communal experience. He argues that being part of a we requires an experiential anchoring; an identification with the grou…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka

6 - 19 March 2025

Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education

Professor Margaretha Järvinen has together with professor Nanna Mik-Meyer, published a new article in the journal Sociology.

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum participates in seminar on Ghana’s recent election

CGC researcher Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum participated earlier this month as a panelist in the seminar "Democratic momentum in Africa? Reflections on the recent election in Ghana," organized by the University of…

Non-Standard Employment and Unemployment Protection in Europe

A recent working paper in the context of the Horizon Europe project TransEuroWorks written by Silvia Girardi, Anna Ilsøe and Trine P. Larsen takes a closer look at how contractual flexibility shapes access to…

CeBIL Director Prof. Timo Minssen joins editorial board of JIPLP (Oxford University Press)

CeBIL Director Prof. Timo Minssen joins editorial board of Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) by Oxford University Press. JIPLP is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to intellectual property law and…

Climate Law Journal

Beatriz Martinez Romera, CLIMA's Head of Centre, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Climate Law, a peer-reviewed journal covering climate change law and its interaction with other legal fields.

Ayo Wahlberg appointed to the Danish Council on Ethics

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has been appointed as a new member of the Danish Council on Ethics. With ethical issues arising from cheaper and more advanced genetic technologies, there is plenty to discuss.

Recent Publications and Media Highlights from CeBIL & Inter-CeBIL

In the past three months, the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL) and the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law (Inter-CeBIL) Programme have made significant contributions…

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Verden forsøgt forklaret’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest on the University of Copenhagen podcast series Verden forsøgt forklaret (Attempts to explain the world)

International Law Breakfast Briefings – Spring 2025

Thursdays 8:45 to 9:45

Notification of noisy work

Date Time Type of construction work Where Other May 26, 2025 From 15:00 Shutdown of the electrical panel building 10 floor 5. This planned shutdown of the electrical panel will affect the entire series…

Change of shift at the Centre for Military Studies

On 1 February, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen became acting head of the Centre for Military Studies. She replaces Kristian Søby Kristensen, who will be head of the Department of Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish…

Jennifer Lundin Rydh

Jennifer Lundin Rydh is a doctoral student at Linköping University, focusing on Swedish environmental regulations in public procurement, influenced by EU law.

Jennifer Lundin Rydh

Jennifer Lundin Rydh is a doctoral student at Linköping University, focusing on Swedish environmental regulations in public procurement, influenced by EU law.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Ezgi Ozlu

1 February - 30 April 2025

Grandmothers experience a significant income drop when the first grandchild arrives

When women have grandchildren, their connection to the labour market weakens – and with it their income. Grandfathers are largely spared. This is according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen and the London…

Katja Lindskov Jacobsen appointed Interim Director at CMS

From 1 February, Senior Researcher Katja Lindskov Jacobsen is appointed Interim Director of the Centre for Military Studies (CMS) at the Department of Political Science.

Aarne Puisto

Aarne Puisto is writing a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of legal remedies under Finnish public procurement rules at the University of Lapland under the supervision of Professor Kirsi-Maria Halonen.

EthNote at Novo Nordisk

Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen present EthNote at Novo Nordisk.

AI creates new winners and losers in the labour market

Demand for professional skills has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to a new international study.