Anna Keuning, master student at Erasmus School of Law, won the Hans Franken Prize for the graduation thesis she wrote for the master International & European Union Law.
In 2021, the ‘Stichting Geschillenoplossing Automatisering (SGOA)’ has awarded the national Hans Franken Prize, an award for the best graduation thesis in the field of IT Law, for the fourth time. The jury awarded the prize to Anna Keuning for her thesis 'Correcting errors within a chain network. The allocation of responsibilities of chain actors and the legal protection against chain errors from the perspective of European and Dutch law'.
Keuning chose the Research master in Rotterdam and wrote her graduation thesis within the International & European Union Law master programme. “My thesis deals with the responsibilities between chain partners when errors occur in a government chain and whether effective legal protection is offered,” says Anna. “I see the prize as an appreciation for the attention that I have paid to the analysis of the various legal areas”.
According to her supervisor, Evert Stamhuis, professor of Law & Innovation, it was no surprise that this thesis got a high ranking. “The complex law concerning digitized chain decisions (European law, national administrative law, national private law) has been very clearly analyzed and described. By devising a solution for the inadequate legal protection, Anna showed her commitment and creative thinking.”