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Two Scientists of Leiden University in Opzij Top 100 12 October 2016
Researchers Bibi van den Berg and Ionica Smeets are featured in the Opzij Top 100, the yearly list of most influential woman in the Netherlands.
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Guest lecture by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at Leiden Law School 10 October 2016
At the invitation of Professor Afshin Ellian, Prime Minister Rutte today gave a guest lecture to first-year law students as part of the course Inleid...
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Indonesian and Dutch experts discuss water management 25 September 2016
A group of ten Indonesian scholars, NGO-members, and state officials coming from the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry visited their Dut...
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Melanie Fink and Merinda Stewart present in Riga in the framework of ILS 2.0 14 September 2016
On 7 September 2016, Melanie Fink and Merinda Stewart presented at a Research Forum organised by the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Inte...
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The Leiden Socio Legal Series 01 September 2016
Starting this academic year (2016-2017) Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Sociology of Law at the Van Vollenhoven Institute will organize the Leiden...
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Save the date: 26 October kick-off event Interaction between Legal Systems 31 August 2016
What is Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS) and what does it entail as research profile area at Leiden Law School? More on this at the kick-off ev...
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Honours Summer Course: Law, Power and Inequality 12 August 2016
Have you ever wondered what law has accomplished in different countries and jurisdictions? If it even has accomplished anything at all, or that it are...
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New paper on: 'Legal Barriers and Enablers to Big Data Reuse: A Critical Assessment of the Challenges for the EU Law' 11 July 2016
eLaw colleagues Bart Custers and Helena Ursic have a new publication in the peer-reviewed journal The European Data Protection Law Review.
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Final Report 'Assessing Legislation for Libya's Reconstruction' 23 June 2016
The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development and Benghazi Centre for Law and Society Studies, Benghazi University have released t...
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What really is happening in the Dutch Borderlands 26 April 2016
As a result of the refugee crisis and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (RNM) is stepping up immigration...
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Suliman Ibrahim was interviewed in the radio program ‘Huna Libya’ 25 April 2016
On 25 April 2016, Suliman Ibrahim, Senior Researcher at the VVI, was a guest expert on the weekly radio program: 'Huna Libya', a joint initiative by t...
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VVI director Jan Michiel Otto addressing President Jokowi in Bahasa Indonesia 25 April 2016
On Friday afternoon 22 April President Joko Widodo of Indonesia was welcomed at the gate of Leiden’s Academy Building by Indonesian students. Inside,...
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LUCIS' commitment to the NWA 14 April 2016
LUCIS is well connected to the Dutch National Research Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda/NWA). Both Petra Sijpesteijn and Jan Michiel Otto have a se...
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate 05 April 2016
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch S...
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Leiden University contributes to evidence-based land policy in Timor-Leste 30 March 2016
For the next six months the Van Vollenhoven Institute of Leiden University, together with The Asia Foundation (TAF), will develop a tool for evidence-...