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Leiden University conducts research into impact of coronavirus crisis on judicial system14 September 2020Leiden University, together with Utrecht University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, has received a research grant from the Covid-19 programme of Z...
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Master’s thesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 202009 September 2020
The Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children ...
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Students LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights received their master degrees25 August 2020On Monday 24 August 2020 a small, intimate gathering of graduating students and staff took place in the Leiden University Academy Building’s Groot Aud...
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Sierd Schaafsma appointed justice in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands24 August 2020The Dutch Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of a Vice President and of three justices, including Professor Sierd Schaafsma, in the Sup...
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New website Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory03 July 2020A new website has been designed to make the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, which started in 2018, more accessible.
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Two new assistant professors for Empirical Legal Studies03 July 2020Niek Strohmaier and Gitta Veldt will start as assistant professors within the project Empirical Legal Studies (ELS). Their appointments are part of th...
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Vanessa Mak appointed Chair of Civil Law01 July 2020Vanessa Mak is appointed Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University as of 1 October 2020. She will succeed Professor Jac. Hijma who is retiring.
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Mariëlle Bruning Expert Council of Europe24 June 2020The Council of Europe is currently implementing its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021), one of the priority areas of which is “a life fr...
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Third Party Intervention to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child15 June 2020Upon invitation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a large group of academics have submitted a third party intervention in a case against...
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PhD Defence Sabine Witting08 June 2020Sabine Witting, PhD student at Child Law and eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, will defend her thesis on Thursday, June 11.
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Prof. Liefaard addresses legal professionals in India about COVID-responses and children’s rights04 June 2020Prof. Ton Liefaard connected to around 150 legal professionals in India and beyond to reflect upon the COVID-response of governments from a children’s...
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First live session Meeting Children's Rights Leaders @ Leiden Law18 May 2020'The impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 may be even greater and long-lasting. This is an exciting time for you as students to be setting out into the ...
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Ilya Kokorin wins Gold Medal for the III 2020 Prize in International Insolvency Studies07 May 2020Ilya Kokorin, Meijers PhD candidate at the Department of Financial Law, has been awarded the Gold Medal in the prestigious competition of the Internat...
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Publication of book on Rescue of Business in Europe23 April 2020Oxford University Press has published the edited volume based on the European Law Institute's (ELI) project 'Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law'. Th...
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Transacties met verbonden partijen (RPT's) en concerns in het Oekraïense ondernemingsrecht16 April 2020On April 8th 2020, Ivan Romashchenko successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'Related party transactions and corporate groups: When Eastern Europ...