Come to the Night of Discoveries art and science festival on 16 September. Various researchers from the university are speaking at the festival.

A generation is growing up in The Hague Southwest with little outdoor play space. Researchers from Health Campus The Hague are following what the BRUIS neighbourhood approach does and means for children and young people in the neighbourhood.

‘’ And then the world changed forever ,welcome to the future’’. These are the words that Kausik Ray (President of the European Atherosclerosis Society) spoke when the worldwide first dose of inclisiran, a novel SiRNA based cholesterol lowering agent, was administered at the Cardiology lipid clinic at…

From the Spanish Flu during WWI to COVID-19: the role of the American government in these Pandemics. Professor Giles Scott-Smith, who together with Dario Fazzi and Gaetano Di Tommaso completed the book project Public Health and the American State, discusses a century of American responses to health…

Jan-Jaap Oerlemans joined the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law in 2024.

Tom Barkhuysen is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University and a practising Member (advocaat) of the Amsterdam Bar as a partner at Stibbe.

Rowie Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her research focuses on legal protection in cases involving collective or diffuse interests. From an interdisciplinary perspective, she examines the role of interest groups in the legal system and the position…

This February, Leiden University honors two scholars who have responded to the challenges of modern society in important, innovative and exemplary ways. Catherine Malabou and Safiya Umoja Noble will receive honorary doctorates for their ground breaking research in philosophy and internet/media studies…

Timo Peeters is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. He draws on qualitative research methods, and especially ethnographic research, to study the workings and impact of social inequality, violence and crime in Latin America and the Netherlands. He holds…

Anna Mosna is assistant professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University.

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This initiative is supported by the Leiden University Global Seed Fund (LUGF) 2025, awarded to Santy Kouwagam (VVI) and Irene Hadiprayitno (LIAS) together with Universitas Indonesia.

With which questions do you go to HR, and when should you contact the department Personnel ? What about leave arrangements? And what about career development? In this series, an HR colleague answers a different question every time. We’re kicking off with Elice Schöne, Head of HR at FWN.

Since the demonstration over a year ago on the Wijnhaven campus, Leiden University has developed plans and initiatives to create the safest possible work and study environment for our university community. The Executive Board would like to explain what has happened since and what else we can expect…

The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology. They call for an examination of the long-term and environmental effects of pesticides containing nanoparti…

Marieke Kluin is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

Eating fewer carbs, moderate amounts of protein, and more fats — welcome to the ketogenic diet! While a ketogenic diet can have various effects on body and mind, did you know there are different types of ketogenic interventions? In this episode, Eline Dekeyster shares more about this topic.

Quite a few members of the Leiden University Data Management Community engage in training on data management or related topics. With expert Helen Clare of Jisc now in Leiden, we have the unique opportunity to learn more about how to go about this. In this session, we spend some time thinking about…

Title research: Accountability for Migrant Death Cases: Tragedies of the Central Mediterranean

Benthe van Delft has been a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Department of Child and Health Law (Institute of Private Law) since September 2023. She conducts research into how the Halt intervention programme functions and relates to compliance with child rights in practice.

Since 1 November 2023, André van der Laan has been appointed professor by special appointment of Juvenile and Adolescent Crime at the Child and Health Law department of Leiden Law School. The chair was established on behalf of the Leiden University Fund and is funded by the Research and Data Centre…

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Eva Schmidt is PhD researcher at the Department of Child Law, Institute for Private Law since the 1st of September 2018.

My research has a focus on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and a strong translational character, integrating basic genetic and neuroimaging research with clinical interventions. My work at the Faculty of Social Sciences is closely related to my research position at the RadboudUMC, the Donders Institute…

Titel research: Experts know best? Guiding public bodies towards legitimate expert-based decisions.

Ymre Schuurmans is Scientific Director of the Institute of Public law and full professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, in particular the Law of Administrative Procedure.

Dr Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. Before transferring to Leiden Law School, he taught at Leiden University's Institute for Political Science, within the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minda…

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Ard Barends is working as an assistant professor of criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Title research: Internalization of the Constitution.