The Global Financial Crisis (2008-2013) was a paradigm shift for mortgage enforcement proceedings. Not only did it lead to significant changes in legislation to improve enforcement procedures in many jurisdictions, the crisis also revealed the importance of forbearance measures. Combined with growing attention at an international and EU level to the position of the homeowner-consumer, the topic of forbearance and mortgage enforcement proceedings offers an interesting study. This book contains...

Six years of ERI Sector Plan Law Research in Utrecht: Cross-pollination through collaboration is a volume created to showcase and celebrate the work accomplished under the Utrecht Law Sector Plan. Since the start of the first Sector Plan Law in September 2019, researchers have engaged in innovative research and intensive collaboration on socially relevant topics. The research has focused on two main themes: Institutions for Conflict Resolution and Empirical Legal Research. These two themes ha...

This book provides a systematic and accessible introduction to the state of EU migration law in 2025. It explores (in 15 chapters) the meaning of EU legislation on migration in the light of fundamental rights and principles of Union law as explained in leading case-law of the European courts. It is particularly aimed at students, but may also be useful for practitioners, policymakers or others interested in the legal foundations of migration in Europe. Today’s Union law contains a comprehen...

This volume showcases a collection of Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) that were conducted at five universities in the Netherlands as part of the Law Sector Plan in the period between 2019 and 2025. The contributions to this volume use both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study the effects of court decisions and legislation in various fields of law, including civil law, criminal law, administrative law and EU law. Based on these contributions, this volume examines how ELS resear...

This book celebrates the career of Jeanne Gaakeer, professor emerita of legal theory, with a focus on narrative jurisprudence and Law and Humanities. The centerpiece of this volume is Jeanne Gaakeer’s farewell lecture in which she puts forward a compelling argument for the need to view law hermeneutically. This is not merely a theoretical proposition, hermeneutics is also a practical need of the art of judging. A narrative understanding of judicial practices is crucial to bring justice to p...