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Flash interview with alumna Kartica van der Zon15 March 2022Did you know that PhD candidates are also alumni of your alma mater? High time to put a PhD alumna and her research in the spotlight. Besides, this mo...
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From obtaining a Master in Child Law to a lateral entry in teaching14 February 2022This month we interview alumna Dominique Mars who made an interesting career choice: she tells us how she chose to be a teacher at a primary school wh...
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Conference abstract submission deadline extended - Courts as an Arena for Societal Change01 February 2022
On July 8 - 9, 2022, Leiden University will be hosting a two-day, international conference on the theme of Courts as an Arena for Societal Change. The...
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead20 January 2022If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the...
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Mid-term review: An open discussion about strategy for the legal programmes20 January 2022On Wednesday 19 January 2022, the online mid-term review of the legal programmes took place on the platform Let’s Get Digital. It was an interactive a...
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Legal expert Reijer Passchier on the law, Big Tech and Big Brother18 January 2022Is the child benefits scandal an omen for the future and will people’s lives soon be fully dominated by algorithms? Assistant Professor of Constitutio...
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EIBL alumna Suzanne Kingston appointed judge of the General Court of the European Union11 January 2022Suzanne Kingston will be officially sworn in mid-January. She graduated from the Leiden Advanced LLM European and International Business Law (EIBL) in...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden10 January 2022The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...
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Six prospective members of the new cabinet studied in Leiden04 January 2022The Rutte IV cabinet will be sworn in soon. A fifth of the prospective ministers and secretaries of state studied in Leiden. Who are they and what did...
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Flash interview with alumnus and new Faculty Advisory Council member Yousef Yousef14 December 2021Yousef Yousef is a 'self-made man'. But he first obtained his bachelor's degree in tax law in Leiden. 'A CEO needs to have a basic understanding of th...
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Katie Pentney wins Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2021 with master’s thesis13 December 2021The Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award is presented every two years on 10 December (Human Rights Day) in recognition of outstanding academic works i...
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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’18 November 2021Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society acces...
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A flash interview with our President and alumna Annetje Ottow16 November 2021In this flash interview we get a flash introduction of our President and alumna Annetje Ottow.
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Former student Aoife in Glasgow: 'I urged Rutte to limit global warming'15 November 2021Aoife Fleming attended the climate summit in Glasgow as UN Youth Delegate for the Netherlands. She recently graduated with a master’s degree in Financ...
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IIASL present at launch of sustainability initiative Net Zero Space12 November 2021On Friday 12 November 2021, the Net Zero Space initiative was launched at the Paris Peace Forum. The International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIA...