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Paul van der Heijden appointed on arbitration panel USMCA in the United States02 July 2020USMCA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is the successor to NAFTA – a free trade zone covering Canada, the United States and Mexico. This Agreeme...
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Conflict between Turkey and Greece about territorial waters30 June 2020Thanks to modern technology, it is now possible to extract more gas and oil in the eastern part of the Mediterranean than in the past. As a result, a...
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Corona putting open Schengen borders under pressure?16 June 2020On 14 June 2020, Maartje van der Woude was invited to participate on NPO Radio 1 to talk about extra controls at borders to prevent the further spread...
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In the media: PhD research Maral Darouei on working from home09 June 2020On Tuesday 9 June 2020, researcher Maral Darouei defended her PhD thesis on sustainable careers. A large part of her research dealt with working from ...
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Impact of corona crisis on climate negotiations01 May 2020At the end of 2019, Leiden law student Aoife Fleming was elected UN Youth Representative for Sustainable Development. What impact is the corona crisis...
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Rowie Stolk on strategic litigation by interest groups02 March 2020The Dutch legal system perhaps appears at first sight not to be very suited for strategic litigation by interest groups. But judgments such as SyRI an...
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Is CETA a barrier to effective climate policy?27 February 2020One of the objections to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and Europe (Ceta) is that countries would be surrendering natio...
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Peter Rodrigues on ethnic profiling at Royal Netherlands Marechaussee27 February 2020Victims of ethnic profiling have commenced legal proceedings against the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Peter Rodrigues, Professor of Immigration Law...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine Intelligence12 February 2020Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Back again: border controls in the Schengen area10 February 2020Jorrit Rijpma responds in Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant to attention surrounding the reintroduction of border controls in the Schengen area.
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Room to tighten legislation on family reunification?10 February 2020In order to reduce the great flow of asylum seekers the Netherlands – and also other European countries – is faced with, the review of the entitlement...
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Risk profiling Act SyRI off the table06 February 2020This week the regional court in The Hague gave a ruling that has attracted international attention. The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Social A...
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Grotius Centre contributes to media reporting on The Gambia v Myanmar case at the ICJ27 January 2020Cecily Rose, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has been involved in informing media reports about the recent ...
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Media attention for research Marike Knoef on aggression in detention10 January 2020The research conducted by Tilburg University and Leiden University on the relationship between aggression among prisoners and the strictness of the pr...
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More accommodating prison regime leads to less aggression08 January 2020
Aggressive behaviour among prisoners decreased significantly following a number of adjustments in the daily regime at a penal institution. This has be...