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Conference 'A Changing Europe in a Changing World' 17 September 2024On 13 and 14 September 2024, the annual meeting of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL) took place in Legrena, Greece.
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Dennis Janssen appointed as Director of Operations for the Leiden Observatory 17 September 2024Dennis Janssen has been appointed as Director of Operations for the Leiden Observatory. He succeeds Dominique de Vet who temporarily held the position...
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language 17 September 2024Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach thi...
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‘Young Academy Leiden wants to stand up for young researchers, especially in difficult times’ 17 September 2024Young Academy Leiden (YAL) will change its board this month and welcome seven new members. Outgoing chair Julia Cramer and incoming chair Rachel Plak ...
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The last Research Traineeship programme has ended for now: ‘We’ll bring it back as soon as we can’ 17 September 2024Amsterdam’s attitude to sex work, politeness in historical Arabic letters and malaria in the Middle Ages: again this year, there was a wide variety of...
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A new perspective on pneumonia: what does our body tell us about the cause? 16 September 2024Effectively treating a severe case of pneumonia is often challenging. Identifying the pathogen behind it can be difficult. PhD candidate Ilona den Har...
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New issue of Common Market Law Review 16 September 2024The October 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 5 is now available online.
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The forgotten world of Surinamese cloths and the Leiden Cotton Company 16 September 2024For her internship at the Textile Museum, master's student Evi van Stiphout researched the Surinamese cloths of the Leiden Cotton Company. Leiden and ...
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What does it mean to be Ukrainian? 16 September 2024It is almost two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict between the two countries has been going on for much longer. Central ...
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In Memoriam professor emeritus Victor Halberstadt (1939–2024) 16 September 2024
It is with great sadness that we have learned that Professor Victor Halberstadt passed away on Friday 13 September 2024. He was Professor of Public Se...
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‘Let politics be the focus at the State Opening of Parliament’ 16 September 2024A big performance by André Rieu, food trucks in The Hague and more contact with the Royal Family: grand plans were announced in April to make the Stat...
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Why rules don’t work for some of the population 16 September 2024Excessive regulatory burden causes economic harm and can undermine trust in government. Policymakers wishing to ease this should be more mindful of pe...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2024: the nominees 13 September 2024Research skills are an essential component of the education programmes of the Institute of Political Science. After all, the challenges our (internati...
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Royal honour for Prof. Barend Mons 13 September 2024Royal honour for Prof. Barend Mons. He was made a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He received this award from the mayor of the municipality of ...
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Marie Schwed Shenker to present at International Conference on Social Robots (ICSR 2024) 13 September 2024We are excited to announce that Marie Schwed Shenker's research paper, co-authored with Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Associate Professor at eLaw) and P...