News
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‘My internship changed my view of the public sector’ 16 January 2024
Hidde studies Public Administration and did an internship at the Kennemerland safety region. During his internship, he conducted research effective co...
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Award-winning thesis reveals gender gap in reactions to women’s sexual assault stories 15 January 2024
Research master student Linda Bomm found in her thesis that men, compared to women, believe female sexual assault survivors less, blame women more, an...
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy? 15 January 2024
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024...
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‘Legal AI is a bit of a Wild West right now’ 15 January 2024
A growing number of AI tools are being developed for the legal sector, to help professionals search lengthy texts or check court rulings. Leiden SAILS...
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Thesis on public policy in vulnerable neighbourhoods wins FSW thesis prize 2023 15 January 2024
With 'The unruly reality of a new government: Navigating between networks and serving in a 'vulnerable' neighbourhood', Mony Klaus has won the FSW The...
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' 15 January 2024
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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Post-quantum cryptography should keep our DigiD, bank accounts and state secrets safe 15 January 2024
Our banking, DigiD and sensitive medical data: what if our entire digital infrastructure can no longer be trusted? Jelle Don has this question permane...
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Transdisciplinary health improvement in The Hague: ‘Neighbourhoods tell us what they need’ 15 January 2024
Health conditions and social problems often go hand in hand. To address this complex issue in families in The Hague, researchers, managers, support se...
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Gerrard Boot appointed deputy justice in Central Appeals Tribunal 15 January 2024
As of 1 January 2024, Gerrard Boot, Professor of Employment Law, has been appointed to act as deputy justice in the Central Appeals Tribunal.
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Common Market Law Review Young Academics Prize 2023 15 January 2024
The Common Market Law Review's 2023 Prize for Young Academics has been awarded to Friso Bostoen and David van Wamel for their co-authored article: ‘Th...
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NWA Project on Vulnerability and Social Media awarded to Gianclaudio Malgieri and eLaw colleagues 15 January 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has recently awarded a significant grant of 863,000 euros to the project proposal 'RESOCIAL' led by Dr Gianclaudio Ma...
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at event organised by Dutch Competition Law Association 11 January 2024
On 10 January, Ben Van Rompuy spoke at the New Year's meeting of the Dutch Competition Law Association in Amsterdam.
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Education and teaching: an exciting year at the faculty 11 January 2024
There are lots of important items on the education and teaching agenda for 2024. Reaccreditation for the Law programmes including Notarial Law and Tax...
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Politics, Opera & Philosophy 11 January 2024
Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Th...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...