The research project ‘Is there room for social rights in the House of Thorbecke? Socioeconomic security as a prerequisite for national strength', has ...

Four lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius Teaching Fellowships to innovate within their teaching, together with their project t...

Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has been named ‘Lawyer of t...

Research.com publishes the 2026 ranking of top legal scholars. Carsten Stahn, professor of International Criminal Law & Global Justice, at the Grotius...

Anna Marhold, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies, was appointed 'EU Trade Champion' by the Directorate-General f...

The Frits Kalshoven International Humanitarian Law Competition, organised annually by the Netherlands Red Cross and Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, provid...

Dr Olga Ceran has been selected as a 2025/26 Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Fellow. As one of 11 fellows in this year’s cohort, she will work on a projec...

Yvonne Erkens has been appointed Professor of Labour Law at Leiden University as of 1 January 2026.

At its recent Annual Conference in Berlin, the European Society of International Law (ESIL) appointed Daniel Peat, Assistant Professor at the Grotius ...

Five Leiden research projects in history, law and AI have received SSH Open Competition M 2024 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The rese...

Rick Lawson, Professor of European Law and former Dean of Leiden Law School, was appointed as the new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human...

Carla van Baalen was awarded the Thorbecke Medal on 4 June. She received the award in recognition of her remarkable and varied oeuvre in the field of ...

Rick Lawson, Professor of European Law and former Dean of Leiden Law School, was appointed as the new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human...

On 16 May, Rowie Stolk was awarded the VAR-Lex Michiels prize for her dissertation 'Litigation interest groups in the polder: An interdisciplinary per...

On 10 February, Stefan Sagel was awarded a prestigious ‘Gouden Peer’ in labour law by ‘Mr.’, a well-known platform for legal professionals in the Neth...