Daudi van Veen is a PhD candidate at the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. He is a part of the ‘Kinderen in de Samenleving (KidS)’ (Children in Society) research project under Judi Mesman.

D.G.J. Althoff is an External PhD Candidate at the Institute of Private Law since October 2017.

Cathalijne van der Plas has been a Professor of Private International Law at the Institute for Private Law since 1 October 2021.

Rick Weijers has been part of the Institute of Private Law (Department of Notarial Law) since 1 September 2021, first as PhD-Fellow and since November 2025 as an Assistant Professor.

Ekaterina Pannebakker (1981) joined the Department of Civil Law as assistant professor in 2016.

Tycho de Graaf has been appointed Professor of Technology and Private Law at Leiden University as of 1 June 2022.

Paula Kemp is related as a doctoral researcher to the Institute for Private Law of the University Leiden since September 2016.

Cathalijne van der Plas will become Professor of Private International Law (0.4 fte) at Leiden University as of 1 October 2021. She succeeds Prof. Sierd Schaafsma who has become a judge at the Supreme Court as of 1 May 2021.

Scholars have long acknowledged the prevalence of non-Muslim and non-Arab administrators staffing various levels of the early Islamic bureaucracy. The presence of these individuals is often interpreted as a means of efficiency, exploitation, or the exceptionalness of a particular administrator. However,…

Jonathan Collins is a PhD candidate at Charles and Leiden University.

Siyun Wu is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

The principal aim of this research is to explore the confrontation between voice and electronics. This confrontation will fundamentally examine emergent relationships between voice and electronics, especially pertaining to constituting the voice’s identity in music, the use of extended vocal techniques,…

Europe is working full steam towards a digital identity for every EU citizen. And although it might be really useful to be able to hire a car everywhere in the EU with no hassles, Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science at eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies, sees many loose ends.…

Anna D'Agostino is affiliated to the Institute for Private Law as PhD candidate since January 2023.

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

Imagine: you’re seeking asylum in the Netherlands due to your sexual orientation or gender identity. The immigration authorities might question you about your sexuality. PhD candidate Elias Tissandier-Nasom, who is researching asylum applications submitted by LGBTQI+ children, explains that the process…

Professor Haentjens has held the chair for Civil Law since 1 January 2023.

Pim Rank is a Professor of Financial Law at Leiden University and an Of Counsel at NautaDutilh in Amsterdam.

Julie Reynders has worked as a PhD candidate at the Institute of Private Law since 1 September 2021.

Bryan Verheul has been a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Private Law since 1 July 2024.

Agnieszka Jabłonowska is since January 2023 connected to the Institute of Private Law as a post-doctoral researcher

J.H. (Jan) van Staalduinen is a PhD-fellow at the Institute for Private Law since 1 October 2021.

Mr R.M.C.M. Koot had been appointed as a teacher in Private Law at the department of Metajuridica since 2005.

Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.

Daan van den Wollenberg is an external PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Tim K Enwerem is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University. His Ph.D. research examines how the issues of identity politics precipitate the failure of states to institutionalize and operationalize human security in their domestic policy and implementation…

Jip Barreveld is a PhD candidate in the Rural Riches research project at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Leonor Faber-Jonker (1987) is a historian, author, and artist. She was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017).

Alain Ancery joined Institute of Private Law as a Guest Staff Member on 1 February 2020.

Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’

Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…

Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Adriana Churampi Ramirez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ward Hoskens started ten years ago as an intern at one of Leiden's most iconic buildings: the Pieterskerk. Now he is doing his PhD on the question of how the function of this 'church that is no longer a church' changed over recent centuries.

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

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.

Kristell Penfornis is a PhD student at the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology unit of the Institute of Psychology. She researches the role of identity processes in smoking cessation and physical activity promotion.

In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.

Many European citizens feel connected to the European Union and place trust in it, Eva Grosfeld found in her PhD research. Yet around a quarter do not identify with the EU at all. How can the EU regain their trust?

Henk te Velde is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Dutch History. As professor he focuses on Dutch (and Western European) History from the late 18th century to the present, in particular political history and its spillover into contemporary politics. His books cover the history of liberalism…

Willem Zwalve is a professor at the Department of Legal History, associated with the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law.

Jacqueline Hylkema is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Leiden University College and Senior Scaliger Fellow at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute. Her research focuses on forgery in early modern print culture, particularly in the Dutch Republic and Britain. Hylkema is currently…

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