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The Subjectively Experienced Severity of Imprisonment12 January 2017On Thursday 12 January 2017, Ellen Raaijmakers defended her doctoral thesis ‘The Subjectively Experienced Severity of Imprisonment: Determinants and C...
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4th Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture – Constitutions and Ethnography by Prof. Scheppele06 January 2017On Friday January 13 between 13.00 - 15.00 (room C 1.04 of the Old Observatory) there will be another Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture, entitled 'Constituti...
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Second ILS Lunch Seminar with Dr. Cuyvers en Dr. Broekhuijsen14 December 2016After the kick-off on 28 November, the next ILS Lunch Seminar will take place on Monday 19 December. During this lunch seminar series all researchers ...
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Pitfalls of discretionary conduct12 December 2016Judicial officers have some leeway in how they act. In most cases that's fine, but it can also lead to abuses, such as ethnic profiling. It is easy to...
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Sign up as a speaker at the ILS Lunch Seminars!30 November 2016ILS organizes a new lunch seminar series where all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and ...
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Criminology number one in Keuzegids 201717 November 2016The University Keuzegids 2017 has rated the Leiden Bachelor programme Criminology as the best in the Netherlands.
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Thinking ‘out of the box’ at the Honours College Law10 November 2016Professor of Sociology of Law Maartje van der Woude has been appointed as the new Director of the Honours College Law (HC Law). She will succeed Sjoer...
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Interaction in Action – ILS 2.0 kicked off!03 November 2016On Wednesday 26 October the kick-off event of the research profile area ‘Interaction between Legal Systems 2.0’ (ILS) took place. Speakers explained t...
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Truth-finding in courts under threat from propduction pressure01 November 2016
As a result of production pressure, judicial powers focus more on efficiency and less on making sure they get to the truth. Professor of Criminology J...
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Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Conference 'EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - Reflections and Prospects'27 October 2016This interdisciplinary conference, to be held on 26-27 June 2017, will bring together lawyers interested in EU law and criminal law, criminologists, p...
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PhD dissertation Jasper de Bie third in international competition14 October 2016
Jasper de Bie, who obtained his doctoral degree at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology and who is currently employed by the Ministry of Securi...
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800,000 euro funding for research on living conditions in prisons29 September 2016Researchers at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology - Paul Nieuwbeerta, Anouk Bosma, Esther van Ginneken, Hanneke Palmen and Maria Berghuis ...
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Save the date: 26 October kick-off event Interaction between Legal Systems31 August 2016What is Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS) and what does it entail as research profile area at Leiden Law School? More on this at the kick-off ev...
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Honours Summer Course: Law, Power and Inequality12 August 2016Have you ever wondered what law has accomplished in different countries and jurisdictions? If it even has accomplished anything at all, or that it are...
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Jannemieke Ouwerkerk appointed Full Professor of European Criminal Law23 June 2016As from 1 August 2016 Jannemieke Ouwerkerk will be appointed to the position of Full Professor of European Criminal Law at the Institute for Criminal ...