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Corona measures: is enforcement also possible in the home?The number of cases of coronavirus in the Netherlands is on the rise. Some mayors are now calling for measures that are more far-reaching than those a...
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Jorrit Rijpma on BNR radio about the call for European travel guidelinesOn 30 July, Jorrit Rijpma spoke on Dutch BNR news radio programme Spitsuur about the call from ANVR, the Dutch travel sector organisation, for Europea...
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'Making wearing face masks mandatory violates constitutional rights'The Dutch government will be unable to make wearing face masks mandatory in public spaces in the short term, according to three constitutional and adm...
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Mariëlle Bruning: more action needed to improve youth carePolicy plans state that children should be placed in secure youth care less often and for shorter periods. But this is problematic in practice.
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Marlies van Eck: be conscious of discrimination in algorithmsEvery day we make use of devices, services and apps which contain algorithms that could be discriminating. These range from Facebook to self-driving c...
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SASE Conference: The multifaceted relationship between value and the firmOn Monday 20 July 2020, members of the Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN), Tim Verdoes (Business Studies), Jelle Nijland and Gert-Jan Boon (...
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Civil Liberties Under Pressure: Maartje van der Woude to hold webinar for Indonesian universityOn Wednesday 22 July, Professor Maartje van der Woude will hold a webinar for Nusantara University (Indonesia). Her lecture is entitled ‘Governing Thr...
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European Law Moot Court Success: Best Advocate GeneralOn 10 July 2020, the final of the European Law Moot Court Competition took place online before an impressive line-up of academics and practitioners of...
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Dean Joanne van der Leun accepts gift of tableau by Syrian artistOn Monday 13 July, the gift of the artwork Homs by Syrian artist Rabi Koria was officially accepted at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. The tableau can ...
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Joyce Esser and Hosna Sheikhattar win Meijers PhD positions 2020Every year, the Faculty awards two Meijers PhD positions to talented young scholars. Candidates both from within and outside of the Faculty can apply.
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New website Leiden Children’s Rights ObservatoryA new website has been designed to make the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, which started in 2018, more accessible.
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Two new assistant professors for Empirical Legal StudiesNiek Strohmaier and Gitta Veldt will start as assistant professors within the project Empirical Legal Studies (ELS). Their appointments are part of th...
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First Advisory Board meeting Legal Technologies programmeIn The Hague, the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) in close collaboration with the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) is developing a Legal Te...
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Niek Strohmaier awarded PhD on biases in bankruptcyOn Wednesday 1 July 2020, Niek Strohmaier was awarded his PhD on the cognitive biases of financial backers and legal professionals in the context of t...
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Ben Van Rompuy and Daniel Mandrescu speak at yearly ASCOLA conferenceOn 25-27 June the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) organized its 15th yearly conference discussing the most recent developments in the co...