This year, Leiden Law School ranks #24 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the faculty ranks as the best in the Netherlands for...

On 3 March 2016 the book “The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary” by prof. dr. W. A. Schabas has been selected by The Executive Council...

The IIASL is happy to announce that current student Sidhant Sharma won the IATA award.

The world is full of wars, and no war is without its dead. What happens to the bodies of fatal casualties of armed conflict? The winner of the facult...

Leiden University will celebrate its 441st anniversary on Monday 8 February 2016 in the Leiden Pieterskerk. Everyone is welcome to attend or follow th...

Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, t...

The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that the winner of the Common Market Law Review 2015 Young Academics Prize is Anna Wallerman, University ...

On 27 October 2015, four talented international students from Leiden University/Campus The Hague and the International Institute of Social Studies rec...

The Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law is the leading general series for monographs in international law which will celebrate its ...

On 10 September the students of the European Law Master gathered in the Lorentzzaal for the festive opening of their programme.

Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen has been awarded the Schim van der Loeff grant by the Leiden University Fund to conduct research on unaccompanied migrant ch...

The Europa Institute is proud to announce that Leiden University has won the prize for Best Written Memorials at the 2014/15 European Law Moot Court C...

Hans-Martien ten Napel has been awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University, USA...