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Save the (firefighter)volunteer from EU law: Geerten Boogaard and Armin Cuyvers in newspaper Trouw 18 March 2021The Dutch Minister of Justice and Security is about to turn the entire volunteer fire brigade upside down. Not because it is good, but because it is a...
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Article on Affective Computing by Andreas Häuselmann published in IDPL 16 March 2021Affective Computing (AC and sometimes called ‘Emotional AI’) provides opportunities to automatically process emotional data. However, is EU data prote...
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High level appointment for EIBL alumnus Martin Richardson 04 March 2021Martin Richardson, who graduated in 1997 from what was then the Leiden LLM Programme in European Community Law (now: Leiden Adv LLM European and Inter...
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy 23 February 2021Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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Wim Voermans in Buitenhof on postal votes 17 February 2021In a lawsuit concerning the upcoming Dutch elections, the Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals) is claiming that everyone should be able to ca...
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Wim Voermans in Nieuwsuur on weak legal basis of curfew 17 February 2021The decision by the court in preliminary relief proceedings to immediately lift the curfew in the Netherlands – following a case brought by pressure g...
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Foreign national suspects appear in court and sentenced more often 02 February 2021Compared to suspects with the Dutch nationality, foreign nationals face court proceedings more often and are given a prison sentence more often than D...
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The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups 25 January 2021In an interview with Jaap van den Herik, Professor emeritus Law and IT, legal magazine Mr. writes that The Hague municipality wants to attract more le...
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Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law proud of Sarah Deaney and Eline van Slijpe 20 January 2021On Tuesday 12 January 2021, the Leiden Law School thesis prizes were awarded at the New Year’s event.
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Meuwese on new developments in Dutch cabinet’s response to child benefits scandal 19 January 2021In recent days and weeks, experts have been falling over themselves to point the finger at the main culprit in the Dutch child benefits scandal. Altho...
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Hans-Martien ten Napel participates in The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism Global Summit 19 January 2021
The Global Summit, which took place from 12-16 January 2021, is an initiative by Richard Albert, the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor...
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Reijer Passchier wins Meijers prize and Van Wersch Springplank prize 14 January 2021The Meijers prizes are awarded each year for the best published article from each faculty research programme. Reijer received the prize for his contri...
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Online Conference The Development of Normative Powers of UN Investigative Mechanisms 14 January 2021
The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in collaboration with the University of Geneva, the Chinese Journal of International Law (ChineseJI...
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Christa Tobler in the media about Brexit and Switzerland 05 January 2021In the days following Christmas, Christa Tobler gave a series of interviews to Swiss newspapers and Swiss radio about the new Trade and Cooperation Ag...
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Anne Meuwese on use of AI by public authorities 17 December 2020New technological applications which the government wants to use need to be thoroughly examined to prevent them causing problems for citizens. Current...