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Anouk Goemans receives National Youth Care Award 2025Prize 27 January 2026Professor by Special Appointment Anouk Goemans has received the National Youth Care Award 2025 from the ‘Stichting Steunfonds Pro Juventute’. The cash...
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How do you decide on the future of a child placed in care?Research project 15 January 2026When a child is placed in care, the assumption is always that the child can return home again. But there are still many questions about how this proce...
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Alumnus Jeroen Zwemmer: ‘The legal component is the core of my work’Alumni interview 15 January 2026Jeroen Zwemmer’s student days in Leiden ended in 2023, after completing two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, a student board year, and an exchange seme...
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Children’s services need better data collection: ‘How can we prevent out-of-home placements?’Inaugural lecture 12 January 2026What reduces the likelihood of children being taken into care? At present, child protection services don’t have the data to answer that question. In h...
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Lies’l Goossens wins Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award for thesis on detention collateral12 December 2025The winner of this year’s Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award wants to raise more awareness for children who have a parent in detention: ‘It’s ti...
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Leiden University co-hosts Council of Europe expert exchange on accountability for crimes against children in Ukraine11 December 2025Bringing together practitioners, policy-makers, academics and children’s rights experts, the event explored how accountability for atrocity crimes com...
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Dirk Visser wins ‘Gouden Peer’ in intellectual property lawPrize 11 December 2025On 8 December, Dirk Visser was awarded a ‘Gouden Peer’ in intellectual property law by legal platform 'Mr.'. He received the prize after being nominat...
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Untangling the knot of legal protection in educationInaugural lecture 08 December 2025Legal protection in education is something of a neglected child: oddly split between administrative law and civil courts. Brechtje Paijmans is calling...
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Master’s students learn negotiation tips from the professionalsWorkshop 07 November 2025What negotiation techniques can you use to strike a win-win deal for your client? What can you do before and during negotiations to make communication...
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Invoeringstoets Wbk beschreven in Business & Law Research Network boekWet bescherming klokkenluiders 31 October 2025The sixth book in the Business & Law Research Network series, 'Veilig voor de melder' (Safe for the whistleblower), is about the Implementation Test o...
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Handbook on mass damage sheds light on ambiguities in collective redress law27 October 2025Dieselgate, privacy violations by TikTok, increases in energy prices: reports of mass damage lawsuits are a regular occurrence. These lawsuits raise m...
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The Future of Children’s Rights Research: Highlights from the 11th CREAN PhD Symposium24 October 2025We are proud to look back on a truly inspiring and successful 11th CREAN Children’s Rights Research PhD Symposium, held on 16–17 October 2025 at Leide...
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Join the Pre-PhD Programme and discover if doing PhD research is for you13 October 2025The Pre-PhD Programme offers master’s students the chance to gain research experience. ‘The programme helps you discover if doing research is somethin...
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The Dutch ‘just in time’ mentality won’t work in a war situationDutch general election 13 October 2025Modern warfare knows no boundaries. Threats are increasingly digital. PhD candidate Annelies van Vark claims that Scandinavia is better prepared to de...
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Kirsten Sandberg appointed as Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s Rights 2025/202619 September 2025Leiden University is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Kirsten Sandberg as the Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s R...