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NWA grant for health law as part of NWA Cure4life24 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek, Aart Hendriks and Martine de Vries (LUMC) will work on mapping the ethical and legal aspects of gene therapy. The aim is to establish...
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Flash interview with alumna Kartica van der Zon15 March 2022Did you know that PhD candidates are also alumni of your alma mater? High time to put a PhD alumna and her research in the spotlight. Besides, this mo...
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Shadow Game Screening with film maker Els van Driel15 March 2022On 10 March students of the advanced master's in International Children’s Rights and the Dutch Child Law master's watched the documentary Shadow Game ...
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Funding for Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm for health law research10 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm has been awarded contract funding for research conducted for the intervention programme ‘Nu Niet Zwanger’ (Not Pregnant Now)...
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Citizens felt less heard in virtual court hearings during coronavirus crisis18 February 2022
Quite a lot went wrong during the virtual hearings that courts held during the coronavirus crisis. Researchers from three universities, including Leid...
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The ELS Atelier is launched!17 February 2022On Valentine’s day, the ELS lab @Leiden launched the ELS Atelier, where a group of scholars met to see if they could find their match with a particula...
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Bart Krans receives Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO)08 February 2022On 27 January 2022, fifteen dedicated lecturers at Leiden University received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). They included Bart Krans, Profe...
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Fourth PhD Workshop on European/International Insolvency Law28 January 2022From Thursday-Friday 28-29 April 2022 the Stichting Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection (BWILC) invites PhD students from Europe and beyond to parti...
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Research on product safety and liability for AI by Gitta Veldt and Tycho de Graaf18 January 2022A recently published article, Productveiligheid en aansprakelijkheid voor AI (Product Safety and Liability for AI), by Gitta Veldt and Tycho de Graaf ...
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Leiden University supports the Caribbean Center for Children’s Rights11 January 2022Prof. Ton Liefaard and Chrisje Sandelowsky-Bosman visited Curaçao to launch de Caribbean Center for Children’s Rights and present research.
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Meghan Ingram wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 202114 December 2021On 7 December, Meghan Ingram won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2021 for her thesis on the rights of children of foreign terrorist fight...
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm asked again to advise Minister of Health29 November 2021The Minister has requested urgent advice from Sombroek-van Doorm in relation to the vaccination of children aged between 5 and 12 years against COVID-19.
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The ELS Academy is live!24 November 2021The Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies is now live with website!
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Launch of Spanish version of the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory website23 November 2021The Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory is pleased to launch the Spanish version of the website. This new feature of the website is a result of the p...
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Invitation: award ceremony Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 202123 November 2021The Department of Child Law of Leiden University and Defence for Children invite you to the ninth Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award ceremony, w...