Dr van Oostrum is an Assistant Professor of Company Law at the Department of Company Law and Financial Law (Institute of Private Law).

Jelle Nijland joined the Institute of Private Law in June 2016.

Joris Larik is Associate Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University. Since July 2025, he is the Director of Education of Leiden University College The Hague. In addition, he teaches at the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School and the College of Europe. Dr. Larik is an expert…

Genevieve Noordeloos is affiliated to the Institute for Private Law as PhD fellow since September 2023.

Ruben van Uden has been part of the Institute of Private Law (Department of Civil Law) since 1 September 2017, first as PhD Fellow and since April 2024 as an Assistant Professor.

Alex Ingrams currently teaches in masters and bachelors courses with the Institute of Public Administration and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. These courses focus on digital government, public management and public policy. His research interests centre on role of technology in government…

Esteban Szmulewicz is a PhD candidate at the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of Leiden Law School, since February 2020. The title of his research is

Shivant Jhagroe is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. His current research focusses on marginalised and more-than-human actors in policy and politics (e.g. racialised/low-income groups, ecosystems, algorithms).

Willem Leppink has been a lecturer in trademark law at the Institute of Private Law since 1 September 2023. He also works as a lawyer at Ploum in Rotterdam.

Tuvana Aras is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University. Research Title: The Green Enforcement of European Competition Law in the Aviation Industry.

Marije Ploum has been engaged by the Institute of Private Law as a PhD-fellow since 22 August 2022.

This introductory course aims to provide PhD candidates and Pre-PhD students with an understanding of the purpose and appropriate use of the major qualitative research methods. It will help students identify research methods suitable for their concrete research questions.

Theodora (Laura) Bakola is since 1 November 2022 connected to the Institute for Private Law as a PhD Candidate in European Private Law.

L.M. de Hoog is related to the Institute for Private Law since the 1st of November 2012.

Bernard Steunenberg conducts research on European politics and policymaking, including the relationship between the Union and its Member States on the transposition and implementation of European policy. In his work, he uses perspectives from game theory, deliberative theory, public choice and analytical…

Anne Verboom has been affiliated with the Company Law department since June 2022 as a PhD-candidate. Her research focuses on combating abuse within the Dutch Act on the Confirmation of Private Restructuring Plans (WHOA).

It is more myth than reality that people with migration backgrounds commit more crime. Leiden has successfully tackled anti-social behaviour by Moroccan youths, says former mayor Henri Lenferink. Good education forms the basis of a healthy and safe society, says ‘crimmigration’ researcher' Maartje van…

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Katherine Filesia joined the Institute of Private Law as a lecturer on 1 August 2019.

Bart Krans has held the chair in Private law and Civil procedure law since August 2016.

Youri Cremers is a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Private Law of the Faculty of Law.

Professor Visser has been a Professor of Intellectual Property Law within the Institute of Private Law's Company Law department since 2003. He also works as a lawyer at law firm Visser Schaap & Kreijger in Amsterdam.

Fatma Çapkurt is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of Leiden University. She completed her doctoral dissertation at this faculty in 2024, which focused on the organization of legal protection against data processing by public authorities. Currently,…

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Carolina Lisboa Pinto is connected to the institute of Private Law since 1 January 2023 as PhD candidate.

On Thursday afternoon, police paid a short visit to the university library and the Herta Mohr building on Witte Singel in Leiden. A member of the university staff had called the police in response to a report from several students that a person had been seen carrying an object that resembled a weapon.…

Vincent Delhomme is Assistant professor of EU Law at the Europa Institute, Leiden Law School since 1 May 2023. He coordinates the activities of the Leiden University Europe Hub on behalf of Leiden Law School. Between 2022 and 2024, Vincent was Visiting professor at UCLouvain, Belgium, and College of…

Diversity and inclusion within the police creates opportunities but also meets resistance. Professor by special appointment and former police officer, Saniye Çelik, emphasises how ambivalent feelings about D&I are essential to the learning process and can lead to informed decisions and real change.

At the symposium ‘Diversity and Inclusion in the Police: from Aspiration to Reality’, the central question was how organisations can truly embody diversity and inclusion. The high level of interest (it was fully booked in no time) demonstrates that the topic is pressing—both in academia and in pract…