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Excellent status for Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies17 January 2019The Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies has been assessed as excellent by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders ...
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Thesis prizes awarded at New Year’s Reception14 January 2019During the New Year’s reception on Thursday 10 January 2019 prizes were awarded for the three best (Dutch) master’s theses in 2018.
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2018 Hall of Fame21 December 2018Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Gineke Wiggers receives prize for paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval17 December 2018PhD student Gineke Wiggers has won the 2nd prize for her paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval in the PhD consortium of the 31s...
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Niels Stensen Fellowship awarded to Vestert Borger08 November 2018A Niels Stensen Fellowship has recently been awarded to Vestert Borger. Since the 1960s, the Fellowship is awarded each year to 6 or 7 scholars at Dut...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Victor Halberstadt06 November 2018Emeritus professor Victor Halberstadt has been honoured with the Cross of Honour of the Order of the House of Orange.
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Dutch Air and Space Fund30 October 2018Friday 26 October the NLF prices were awarded. LLM alumna Annemarie Schuite won the 'Albert Plesmanrijs' for her investigation on Aviation Safety vers...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers15 October 2018The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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MSCA (‘Marie Curie’) grant for Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Bart Custers11 September 2018Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and his supervisor Dr. Bart Custers received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) fund for research on legal and regulat...
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers16 July 2018Sixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers p...
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Shuai Guo wins International Insolvency Institute’s 2018 Prize29 June 2018Shuai Guo, PhD candidate at Company Law and the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, has been awarded the Silver Medal in the competition of the Intern...
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Europa institute welcomes 2 new Meijers grant recipients29 June 2018We are very happy to announce that two candidates of the Europa Institute won the Meijers PhD grant of 2018. Both PhD-students will perform highly top...
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European subsidy for exchanges doubled at Leiden University25 June 2018Almost a hundred students and researchers can study in Leiden or go from Leiden to another university abroad as part of an exchange programme. Fourtee...
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Mark Klaassen appointed in the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs20 June 2018Mark Klaassen, assistant professor at the Institute of Immigration Law, has been appointed as a committee member in the Advisory Committee on Migratio...
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Leiden University Fund awards grants12 June 2018Over thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...