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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’ 12 April 2022
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. St...
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Leiden student team in the final of Helga Pederson Moot Court Competition 11 April 2022
A team of four Leiden master's students has qualified for the final of the prestigious Helga Pederson Moot Court Competition 2022. This final will tak...
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience 07 April 2022
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge...
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Leiden Law Cast: Law and computers with Professor Jaap van den Herik 07 April 2022
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award 07 April 2022
Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of ...
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Students of Russian Studies use language skills to help Ukrainian refugees 06 April 2022
What started as a call for help in a Facebook group turned into a permanent group of students from the Bachelor's in Russian Studies and the Master's...
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From Leiden to Delaware: How empirical legal research on valuation biases was used in a US courtroom 05 April 2022
Many of our department’s staff members are actively involved in the Empirical Legal Studies lab and strive towards publishing impactful empirical lega...
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‘Forgotten books inspire a love of reading’ 05 April 2022
The compulsory reading list is infamous among secondary school students, and for all the wrong reasons. This prompted the Faculty of Humanities and th...
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme 05 April 2022
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the...
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Autism with borders 31 March 2022
Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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Break the familiar routine of papers and write a blog post! ‘This way you can be more involved with the subject’ 25 March 2022
Exam, paper, exam, paper. A familiar, though sometimes little unexciting, routine for students. That is why Film and Literary students Sietske de Haan...
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Final conference international NUFFIC project Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI) on 28-29 March in Mataram, Lombok 23 March 2022
Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute has cooperated for nearly three years in the SLEEI project with Indonesian partners. Next week SLEEI wil...
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Leiden Law Cast #6: Geerten Boogard on (local)elections & political upheaval 23 March 2022
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Adv. LL.M. Air and Space law student Filip collects goods for Ukrainians 22 March 2022
Students on the Adv. LL.M. Air and Space Law reacted quickly to the news of Ukrainians fleeing the war in Ukraine to neighbouring countries. Filip Dra...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction' 17 March 2022
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...