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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy01 February 2024Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
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How do you measure democracy? Leiden political scientist collaborates on international freedom report01 February 2024Wouter Veenendaal, a political scientist at Leiden University, is an analyst for the Freedom House report. Freedom House is an American non-profit org...
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New Programme Director for master’s programmes in Law01 February 2024After more than five years, Professor Armin Cuyvers has handed over the position of Programme Director for the master’s programmes in Law to Marije Sc...
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Introducing the new Faculty Board31 January 2024On 15 February 2024, Leiden Law School's Faculty Board will enter a new phase.
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Patrick van der Meij appointed Professor of Criminal Law Practice31 January 2024Patrick van der Meij has been appointed Professor of Criminal Law Practice at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology from 1 January 2024. This ...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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Old/New Histories that Continue to Matter: M.A. History Students use Leiden Austria Centre programming as they study the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe30 January 2024Nearly eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, we continue to learn more about how the Holocaust “happened” in central and eastern Europe. In...
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Freya Baetens awarded Francqui Chair29 January 2024Freya Baetens, Professor of European Law, has been awarded a Chair by the Francqui Foundation in Belgium for the impact of her work on lawmaking and p...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now?27 January 2024Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the...
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Technology alone won't save us from the climate crisis26 January 2024If European countries rely solely on technological advances, they won't be able to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees. Households will also need to c...
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app26 January 2024If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...
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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined'25 January 2024The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific ...
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Towards the Hinduisation of India?Experts discuss causes and consequences of the Ayodhya temple consecration 25 January 2024The recent consecration of India’s Ayodhya temple by Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party figurehead Narendra Modi raises important questions. Is...