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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference 25 April 2023
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will ...
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Is the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity too broad? 25 April 2023
To discuss this question, chairmen, members, and secretaries of the Research Integrity Committees (Commissies Wetenschappelijke Integriteit, CWI) of a...
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Shaping the university of the future. Leiden University joins Una Europa alliance 24 April 2023
Leiden University is a member of the Una Europa European alliance. This partnership of 11 research-intensive universities is working to shape the univ...
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Border tax on CO2 offers huge opportunity to fight climate change 22 April 2023
A tax on CO2 emissions from products entering the EU offers unprecedented opportunities in the fight against global warming. That is the conclusion of...
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Bob Wessels appointed as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau 21 April 2023
On 20 April 2023, during the first lustrum congress of the Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL), professor emeritus Bob Wes...
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Two thesis awards for research on electrochemical reactions 20 April 2023
Understanding the proces of electrochemical reactions is essential to improve the technology for the energy transition. Fuel cell cars, for example us...
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Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people' 20 April 2023
Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do y...
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Should we build a European mega-dam? 20 April 2023
A mega-dam around Europe is a possible solution as protection against rising sea levels. Whether that is really a good idea, was debated on by young p...
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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’ 19 April 2023
Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Daniel Carter, PhD – ‘There's “money law” and there's “people law” and I've always been more interested in the latter.’ 19 April 2023
Not everyone benefits from the increased flexibility in the labour market. EU migrant workers engaged at the lower end of the employment spectrum are ...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023
Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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To what extent is ChatGPT capable of drafting legislation? 18 April 2023
All sorts of predictions have already been made about the AI system ChatGPT: the programme is going to turn education on its head, make search engines...
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Annemarie Drahmann speaker at debate on closed government 17 April 2023
On 12 April, Annemarie Drahmann, Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden Law School, was one of the s...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023
What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society 14 April 2023
Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...