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How to improve the emotional intelligence of EU law?Research grant awarded to Armin Cuyvers for innovative research combining EU law and social psychology. In an age where identity often trumps economic...
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Leiden Centre on East African Law trains East-African Competition CommissionersOn 28 and 29 August, Dr. Ben Van Rompuy and Dr. Armin Cuyvers gave a two-day training to the Competition Commissioners of the newly established East-A...
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Armin Cuyvers on Brexit and the UK elections in BNR National News RadioOn Thursday 12 December, the day of the UK general election, Armin Cuyvers was interviewed by BNR Nieuwsradio.
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The last ILS Lunch Seminar of 2019 in hindsightOn Thursday 12 December, the last ILS Lunch Seminar of 2019 took place. Cecily Rose and Eduard Fosch Villaronga gave two very insightful presentation ...
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Armin Cuyvers invited to lecture in Japan on Brexit and EU integrationFrom 28 October to 2 November, Armin Cuyvers was invited by the University of Nagasaki to lecture on EU integration and Brexit.
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Aart Hendriks holds lecture in Madrid on euthanasiaAart Hendriks, Professor of Health Law at Leiden University, held a lecture on euthanasia on Wednesday 11 December 2019. He was invited by the Madrid ...
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Sarah-Devorah Poot wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019On 10 December Sarah-Devorah Poot won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019 for her thesis on child-friendly judgments.
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Less finger-wagging, more pragmatismRather than finger-wagging, the Netherlands has opted for pragmatism when it comes to human rights. That is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok...
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Law student Aoife Fleming speaks at UN Climate Change Conference MadridAs UN Youth Delegate on Sustainable Development, Leiden student Aoife Fleming is currently in Madrid for the UN Climate Change Conference COP25.
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Moritz Jesse on Transition From Excluded Asylum Seeker To Integrated RefugeeDr. Moritz Jesse, associate professor of European Law at the Europa Institute Leiden, was sharing his thoughts on the transition from asylum seeker to...
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PhD defence: critical reflections on law and the question of the animalThis project contemplates an ethics of difference and singularity that can effectuate a displacement of anthropocentrism and radical transformation in...
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Morshed Mannan at The New School in New York CityIn November 2019, Morshed Mannan participated at a conference entitled Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism, that was hosted by The...
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Contempt of court does not fit into the Dutch judicial systemWhat can criminal courts do when the course of justice is obstructed? Countries such as England and Wales apply the instrument contempt of court, whic...
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Children in Sierra Leone thrilled with pens from KOG cleaner LaminFor almost ten years now Lamin Sow, a cleaner working at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, has been collecting discarded pens he comes across throughout ...
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Melanie Fink speaks at TARN Conference in MaastrichtOn 5 December 2019 Melanie Fink, researcher at the Europa Institute, spoke at the Conference organised by The Academic Network on EU Agencies & Instit...