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Roundtable on Horizontal Direct Effect, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights/General Principles of EU Law and the Effect of DirectivesFollowing the Mangold and Kücükdeveci case law of the CJEU, the horizontal direct effect of EU general principles and of provisions of the Charter of ...
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Successful LLX on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant in the Shadow of Europe’s Rule of Law CrisisThe current rule of law debate in the EU occupies not only the mind of European policy and lawmakers, but also of legal practitioners on the ground. T...
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Conference and Summer School Europeanisation of administrative law in the Member StatesIn what ways and to which extent are the systems of national administrative law becoming Europeanised? What role do EU legal principles play in this p...
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ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy 2019One of ECSL’s most successful activities is the ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy, which is open to students of all levels of study, as well ...
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Decreasing prison population in the NetherlandsHilde Wermink, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology was interviewed on this topic for an article published in US News on...
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Moot Court Air and Space Law in council chamber of Leiden Town HallOn 15 May the Space Law Moot Court Competition was held in the council chamber of Leiden Town Hall, organised by the International Institute of Air an...
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Two more alumni with their sights on the European ParliamentIt's a no-brainer: of the candidates that you can vote for on 23 May, fourteen have studied at Leiden University. We asked four of them about their mo...
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Ingrid Leijten guest professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in GermanyThis semester, Ingrid Leijten is appointed as a guest professor at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).
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Will employees have to start clocking in again?This week the European Court of Justice ruled that companies in the European Union as of now have to register the amount of hours their employees work...
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Van Vollenhoven Lecture by Tony Platt in ‘Leidsch Dagblad’On Thursday 9 May, Prof. Tony Platt delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Crime & Punishment’
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New Rembrandt Route takes in seven Leiden University buildingsSeven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...
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Cancelled: Combined LRL – ILS Lunch Seminar with Maria Weimer on Risk Regulation in the Internal MarketOn Thursday 23 May, a jointly organized Lunch Seminar between the Leiden Research Lunch and the research program Interaction Between Legal Systems tak...
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'EU Member States look the other way when a country disrespects the EU values’The Member States of the European Union do not intervene when a Member State disrespects the values of the European Union, Judith Sargentini, member o...
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Bart Custers on CBC Radio on selling your own dataCompanies like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars by selling or using our personal data. The data could be used by many different entities f...
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Mariana Gkliati published a series of blogs on the new Frontex RegulationOn the occasion of the new European and Coast Guard Regulation, adopted by the European Parliament in April, Mariana Gkliati has published a series of...