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‘Governments must provide fundamental rights to certain animals’ 02 October 2019
Legal proceedings conducted on behalf of apes and animals who are starved for the purpose of an ecological project. What position do animals actually ...
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Legal community determined to get rid of religious accommodation 18 June 2019
There is a crisis in the law concerning the accommodation of religious practice. The legal profession is demanding that the law be changed because it ...
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Rise of drones necessitates revision of laws of war 18 March 2019
Nowadays, it is almost impossible to imagine warfare without unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. For instance, they have been deployed in the war in ...
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Law student Erwin Dijkstra awarded second prize Leiden University Thesis Prize 2019 19 February 2019
Master's student Erwin Dijkstra won for his thesis on the position in society of people with a disability.
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‘Relationship between the state and religious and ideological beliefs in Belgium has reached its best-before date’ 30 January 2019
In Belgium, officially recognised religions receive financial support from the state. Partly as a result, there is no clearly implemented secularism (...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Hans-Martien ten Napel and Mark Leiser 24 September 2018
The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different institutes situated within Leiden Law School and are steadily de...
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The first edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars 2018-2019 in retrospect 18 September 2018
On Thursday 13 September 2018, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Geerten Waling and Michael Klos kicked off the ILS Lunch ...
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The festive ILS Lunch Seminar series 2018-2019 kick-off with Geerten Waling and Michael Klos 05 September 2018
The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars have become a regular point on the Law School’s agenda and are steadily developing into somewhat of a tradition. During...
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‘Too much empathy is bad for justice 23 August 2018
It is good for a judge to have some empathy with victims and offenders. But too much empathy can be harmful to the practice of the law, as PhD candida...
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‘State must protect citizens in domain cyberspace’ 26 April 2018
‘It is recommended that the State assumes sovereign responsibilities to protect life, liberty and property of its citizens in the domain of cyberspace...
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Looking back on the successful inaugural ILS PhD Workshop 23 January 2018
On 18 January 2018, the inaugural ILS PhD Workshop took place, featuring two Interaction Between Legal Systems lectures by the invited academics Prof....
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Prof. Jean-Pierre van der Rest and Maria Berghuis 22 January 2018
The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars unite the several Institutes situated within Leiden Law School. On Thursday 15 February 2018 from 12:00 hrs until 13:00...
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Education for double-quick learning children 28 August 2017
Dr. Willy de Heer defended her PhD Thesis "The paradigm of equality in Dutch primary education. Research into education for double-quick learning chil...
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Bastiaan Rijpkema Wins New Scientist Academic Talent Prize 23 June 2017
Bastiaan Rijpkema, legal scholar and philosopher at Leiden University has won the 2017 New Scientist Academic Talent Prize.
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Last ILS Lunch Seminar before summer! 21 June 2017
During this lunch seminar series all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what ...