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Working from home leads to better well-being, but often lower appraisal 03 June 2020
Home workers experience less time pressure and feel better as a result. This appears from PhD research conducted by Maral Darouei, who defends her dis...
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Working from home leads to better well-being and often a lower appraisal from superior 02 June 2020
New ways of working like working from home can have a positive impact on a person’s career, but only when their superior supports their choice. Resear...
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‘I go for a quick walk every day before I start work’ 28 April 2020
Our researchers are doing what they can to continue working on their research. How are they managing? We talk to Kimia Heidary, who began as a PhD can...
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Two newly appointed PhD candidates for ELS 14 April 2020
As of March 16 two PhD candidates have joined the project Empirical Legal Studies as part of the sector plan for Law.
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'Emergency financial support is unprecedented but wise’ 23 March 2020
The Dutch government has come up with a package of financial support to help businesses and the self-employed make it through the corona crisis. Econo...
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Leiden students reach final International and European Tax Moot Court 04 March 2020
The team of four students from Tax Law has reached the final of the most prestigious international moot court competition in the field of internationa...
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Intensive Course on Tax Law, Gadjah Mada University and Leiden University 18 February 2020
In the last week of January, Prof. Rex Arendsen and PhD candidate Maarten Manse of the Department of Tax Law at Leiden Law School, taught an ‘Intensiv...
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Lieke Kools wins Netspar PhD Award 2020 29 January 2020
Lieke Kools has won a Netspar PhD Thesis Award 2020 with her dissertation ‘Essays on wealth, health, and data collection’.
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Media attention for research Marike Knoef on aggression in detention 10 January 2020
The research conducted by Tilburg University and Leiden University on the relationship between aggression among prisoners and the strictness of the pr...
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Meijers Prizes, Van Wersch Springplank prizes and Thesis Prizes awarded at New Years’ reception 10 January 2020
On Thursday 10 January a number of prizes were presented to researchers and students.
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More accommodating prison regime leads to less aggression 08 January 2020
Aggressive behaviour among prisoners decreased significantly following a number of adjustments in the daily regime at a penal institution. This has be...
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Tanja Bender included in book Recognising 100 Years of Women in Tax 20 December 2019
Professor of International Tax Law, Tanja Bender, has been included in the book Recognising 100 Years of Women in Tax.
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Tax Law researchers write report for the World Economic Forum 09 December 2019
Researchers from the Department of Tax Law were lead authors of a report on corporate taxation and digitalization for the World Economic Forum.
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Hotel room rates: human work or algorithmic plaything? 05 November 2019
You would like to book a hotel room and browse the internet for which rooms and rates are on offer. The rates provided depend on forecasted demand and...
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Jan Vleggeert appointed Professor Tax Law and Economics 28 October 2019
Jan Vleggeert is a tax specialist with an independent and critical voice in the debate on tax avoidance by multinationals. His appointment commenced o...