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Gianclaudio Malgieri co-chairs the 8th Brussels Privacy Symposium 18 October 2024
The 8th edition of the Brussels Privacy Symposium, co-organised in Brussels by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Brussels Privacy Hub on 7 October 2...
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Kick off meeting RESOCIAL project 18 October 2024
On 20 September 2024, Leiden University colleagues Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (Main Applicant), Assistant Professor Michael Klos (Co-App...
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The future is queer and technological. Also human. 18 October 2024
The history of the LGTBI+ collective, deeply marked by episodes of violence, repression, and discrimination, is also the history of the struggle for s...
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Solitary Quasars with Mysterious Origins 18 October 2024
An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be...
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Surrogacy processes identified by Leiden University 17 October 2024
How many children are born with the help of a surrogate mother in the Netherlands, and which legal obstacles can arise? Through a new interdisciplinar...
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Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy 17 October 2024
Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos 17 October 2024
This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behavio...
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024) 17 October 2024
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 Se...
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis 17 October 2024
At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, b...
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre 17 October 2024
Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
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In Memoriam: Ruchama Noorda 16 October 2024
15 March 1979 - 11 October 2024
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Is the precautionary principle adequately embedded in the Dutch Environment and Planning Act? 16 October 2024
Rogier Kegge, Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, contributed to the technical brief on the precautionary ...
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Larissa van den Herik sworn in as Deputy Judge 16 October 2024
Larissa van den Herik, Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, was sworn in as a Deputy Judge at ...
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FGGA researchers win Horizon grant: 760,000 euro for project on the rule of law 16 October 2024
The EU’s programme for research and innovation Horizon Europe is funding the ISGA project ‘NET-ROL: Networks and the Rule of Law: Uncovering Socio-Eco...
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Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets 16 October 2024
Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?