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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 Marechaussee 27 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 Intelligence 12 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 area 10 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 table 06 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 ICJ 27 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 detention 10 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 aggression 08 January 2020
Aggressive behaviour among prisoners decreased significantly following a number of adjustments in the daily regime at a penal institution. This has be...
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Two Leiden finalists for ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award 05 August 2019Three students are still in the race for the ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award 2019, two of them are students at Leiden Law School.
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Machine Learning Improves Cross-border Tax Estimates 26 July 2019Multidisciplinary research has established that VAT-results are in practice six times lower than what it should have been. The new estimates rely on m...
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Lars van Doorn shortlisted for Daniël Heinsius Prize for the best master thesis 14 June 2019Lars van Doorn, research staff member at the Department of Economics at Leiden University, is shortlisted for the Daniël Heinsius Prize for the best m...
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Dr Philippe van Gruisen shortlisted for Els Witte Prize for the best PhD Thesis 14 June 2019Dr. Philippe van Gruisen, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University, is shortlisted for the Els Witte Prize 2019 for the...
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Armin Cuyvers in the news on Brexit 16 January 2019In the last few weeks Armin Cuyvers was several times in the news on Brexit. He was a studio guest during the new years episode of Legal Affairs on BN...
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Northern Ireland makes Brexit difficult: Armin Cuyvers in Leidsch Dagblad on Brexit 13 December 2018Armin Cuyvers was interviewed for the weekly science page of local newspaper Leidsch Dagblad, about Brexit and its legal complications in relation to ...