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Clara van Dam gives seminar for Lund University about EU guidance in the national legal order 30 March 2021
On 18 March 2021, Clara van Dam gave an online seminar for Lund University about EU Commission guidance in the national legal order. The seminar was h...
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Prof Luuk van Middelaar guest professor at the Collège de France, Paris 22 March 2021
From 24 March 2021, Professor Luuk van Middelaar will deliver four public lectures on 'Geopolitical Europe: Acts and words' at the Collège de France i...
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Film by Visual Ethnography alumna selected for the RAI Film Festival 19 March 2021
'Don’t Let the sunny weather fool you' a film made by Visual Ethnography alumna Guusje Meeuwissen has been selected for the RAI film festival in Londo...
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Save the (firefighter)volunteer from EU law: Geerten Boogaard and Armin Cuyvers in newspaper Trouw 18 March 2021
The 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 2021
Affective 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 2021
Martin 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 2021
Recently, 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 2021
In 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 2021
The 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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BBC Science Focus names Ewine van Dishoeck as one of the six women who are changing chemistry 12 February 2021
On the occasion of the Women & Girls in Science Day, BBC Science Focus Magazine highlighted 6 prominent female chemists. Among them is Leiden professo...
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Foreign national suspects appear in court and sentenced more often 02 February 2021
Compared 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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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
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The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups 25 January 2021
In 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 2021
On 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 2021
In 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...