The award

The jury consisted of Eliana Cusato, Klaas Rozemond, and Kiki Brölmann. They presented the award to Hannah von Kolfschooten during the faculty colloquium. Every year, the prize is handed out for the best publication by a young researcher in the faculty between 1 January and 31 December. Hannah received an official award document and 1000 euros for research as the winner.

The jury report states: ‘This is an original, thought-provoking article. Moreover, it is very well written: the introduction clearly spells out the objective, the contribution, and the main arguments. The argument is coherent, the reasoning consistent with rigorous legal analysis. It is a multilayered account that is complex but also easy to read for a non-specialized audience.’

Hannah is a researcher and lecturer at the Law Centre for Health and Life (LCHL). She is currently teaching and coordinating the course ‘International and European Health Law’ in our Health Law Master's programme. She was delighted with the award.

Evaluation and selection

The evaluation and selection were based on the following criteria:

• scientific originality and contribution
• thoroughness and cross-border nature

This year, the Amsterdam Law School received 6 entries, covering 6 faculty sections. The jury was pleasantly surprised to receive so many submissions from female authors (4 out of 6). The jury found all 6 submissions to be very high quality – in terms of academic quality and societal relevance. All researchers are praised for their scholarly contribution and originality in choice of topic, scientific methods, and interdisciplinary approaches. ‘We read the papers with pleasure and were impressed with the quality of the work being done by young researchers across our faculty,’ said one of the jurors.

Hannah’s paper ‘The AI cycle of health inequity and digital ageism: mitigating biases through the EU regulatory framework on medical devices’ was published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2023, 1–23.