Associate Professor Louise Halleskov Storgaard has received DKK 2,846,918 for the project: EU, Denmark and Non-Nationals: An Analysis of the Danish Law Implications of EU Law on Asylum, Border Control and Deportation.

The Ministry of Justice has reappointed Professor Michael Hansen Jensen, LLD, as member of the Venice Commission (The European Commission for Democracy through Law) as alternate for the Danish member of the commission.

Graham Butler, Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus BSS, has been awarded grant of 1,25 million DKK from the Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) on access to justice issues within the scope of European Union law.

New legal research concludes that weapons systems with autonomous attack capabilities capable of selecting and engaging a target without human interference are not illegal in and of themselves. However, a political decision should be made regarding their use, says the researcher.

For almost a decade, he has introduced law students and lawyers to the noble art of negotiation. Now, Executive VP Mikkel Gudsøe has been appointed honorary associate professor at the Department of Law.

Students and employees at Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University can now simulate and train their skills at legal proceedings in real-life surroundings.

He has arranged theatre plays in front of the City Hall, invited refugees to take part in his classes, and is actually a political science graduate. Now Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, an unorthodox and internationally recognised researcher, has been appointed honorary professor at the Department of Law in Aarhus.

Previously he has battled giants such as Google and Apple to protect consumers. Now the former consumer ombudsman and current Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU, Henrik Øe, has been appointed honorary professor at the Department of Law.

Professor of economics Philipp Schröder and associate professor of law Pernille Wegener Jessen are both at the table in the new Danish Competition Council which has trimmed down from 18 to only seven members.

The rights of children have been described in the UN’s Convention of the Rights of the Child. But given that the convention must accommodate 194 countries with widely different cultural practices, the convention is too unspecific and allows for the rules to be interpreted differently. This is one among the many aspects that AU’s children and human rights experts will be focusing on during their 4-year chairmanship of the UNCRC centre “Hope for Children”.