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Leiden student Lucas Pistorius wins Moot Court competition on day of Thorbecke Lecture25 April 2024The 2024 Thorbecke Lecture was held on Friday 19 April, with the theme of ‘The role of the Court of Justice in protecting the consumer’. Before the le...
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New Economics degrees to be launched in The Hague24 April 2024Leiden University is going to offer two new Economics degree programmes at its campus in The Hague: the bachelor’s in Economics and Society and the ma...
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Interdisciplinary book symposium: ‘Confronting Colonial Objects’24 April 2024OpinioJuris, one of the world’s leading international law blogs, has hosted an interdisciplinary online symposium on Professor Carsten Stahn’s new boo...
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COI publishes special issue on environmental and climate conflicts23 April 2024After the 2022 conference on Courts as an Arena for Societal Change in Leiden, COI researchers collaborated with conference attendees to publish a spe...
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‘Children’s healthcare rights deserve more attention’19 April 2024‘Children’s rights are somewhat of a poor relation’, says Professor of Law and Health Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm. In her inaugural lecture, she will em...
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Carlotta Rigotti participates in ViolenceStop project18 April 2024Recently, Carlotta Rigotti participated in the ViolenceStop project, a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and the Central Univ...
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New publication on fairness, AI and recruitment18 April 2024Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga have published a new article that offers an insightful and critical literature review on fairness and AI ...
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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel18 April 2024The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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Symposium on ten years of progress for children's rights: OPIC18 April 2024In a collaborative effort between the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, the Leiden Law Academy, UNICEF and the Petitions Section of the Office of ...
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Jason Rudall publishes book on responsibility for environmental damage16 April 2024Jason Rudall, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has published a monograph entitle...
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Sophie Starrenburg organises workshop on climate change and cultural heritage16 April 2024On 11 April 2024, Sophie Starrenburg, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organised a workshop on ‘Climate Chan...
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Interest organisations take legal action ‘so that most vulnerable are heard’12 April 2024Interest organisations are increasingly taking legal action and that’s a good thing for democracy, says PhD candidate Rowie Stolk. ‘It means that the ...
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Horizon Europe BIAS & AEQUITAS sister projects join forces to understand the impact of AI on workers12 April 2024Leiden University's eLaw Center's BIAS Project and the Universidad de la Laguna's AEQUITAS project will collaborate to develop a deeper understanding ...
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Lawyers' risks: crown witness cases and extra secure communication tools11 April 2024How can we guarantee the safety of the crown witness scheme for both crown witnesses and lawyers? How can we ensure that online conversations between ...
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Reijer Passchier discusses the risks of artificial intelligence11 April 2024Reijer Passchier, Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, recently published a statement entitled 'The AI Safety Summit at Bletc...