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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’ 12 December 2023
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Algoprudence: presentation report Risk Profiling for Social Welfare Re-examination to Dutch Minister for Digitalisation 11 December 2023
Francien Dechesne, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed as an expert to the advisory report of the organisation AlgorithmAudit, which was presente...
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The BIAS project attends an international co-creation workshop in Venice 11 December 2023
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, participated in the Horizon Europe BIAS Project international co-creational works...
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The person behind the truck driver 11 December 2023
Most people talk about truck drivers rather than to them. That’s an error of judgement, says PhD candidate Anke van der Hoeven, who explains why we sh...
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eLaw launches call for workshop papers on fairness and AI in the labour market 11 December 2023
Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga launch a call for workshop papers on fairness and AI in the labour market at the 16th JSAI International ...
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Hadassah Drukarch win European Commission’s Product Safety Award 11 December 2023
The EU Product Safety Award encourages and honors innovative business initiatives and research that make a difference for consumers. This year, the Go...
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Life Science & Technology among best studies by Elseviers Weekblad 11 December 2023
The MSc Life Science & Technology receives a bronze medal in EW Best Studies 2023. Every year, Elsevier selects the top programmes in higher education...
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Florian Theissen successfully defends his PhD thesis 11 December 2023
On 30 November 2023, Florian Theissen successfully defended his PhD thesis, 'Sincerely Believing in Freedom'.
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Textbooks not inclusive: roles are stereotypical, heterosexuality is the norm 11 December 2023
Mum works in healthcare, dad in engineering and everyone is straight: many textbooks still show men and women in stereotypical roles, PhD candidate Te...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’ 11 December 2023
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most 11 December 2023
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult...
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Rick Lawson speaks at human rights conference in Moscow 11 December 2023
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, 10 December, an international conference was organized by the Moscow-based Сenter for Constitutiona...
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Special issue on 'The European Union and the Governance of Contested Global Spaces' 11 December 2023
Together with College of Europe Professors Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz, Joris Larik edited an interdisciplinary special issue for the Journal of...
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Modified caffeine molecules help medical research move forward 08 December 2023
Before researchers can develop targeted drugs, they need to know exactly how a disease works. Biochemist Bert Beerkens created molecules that allow th...
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Percentage of female professors in Leiden unchanged 07 December 2023
Like last year, the percentage of female professors at Leiden University is 31.2 per cent. These are the results of the Women Professors Monitor 2023 ...