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Sarah-Devorah Poot wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 201911 December 2019On 10 December Sarah-Devorah Poot won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019 for her thesis on child-friendly judgments.
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Less finger-wagging, more pragmatism11 December 2019Rather than finger-wagging, the Netherlands has opted for pragmatism when it comes to human rights. That is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok...
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Morshed Mannan at The New School in New York City11 December 2019In November 2019, Morshed Mannan participated at a conference entitled Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism, that was hosted by The...
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Looking back on the ILS Lunch Seminar of November02 December 2019The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different Institutes situated within Leiden Law School. On Thursday 28 Nov...
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How do national courts engage with the Convention on the Rights of the Child?27 November 2019This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by the UN General Assembly. How do countries i...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Melanie Fink and Tycho de Graaf17 November 2019The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars have slowly developed into somewhat of a tradition. During this seminar series, all researchers from Leiden Law School ...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival12 November 2019It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...
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Symposium on 'Constitutional children’s rights and the role of courts as a tool for domestication of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child after 30 years'07 November 2019The symposium is organised by the Department of Child Law at Leiden Law School, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Ri...
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Do banks have human rights?05 November 2019On 1 October 2019 the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial law hosted its 19th guest lecture starring Paul Sharma, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal and...
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Stephanie Rap wins KNAW Early Career Award 201905 November 2019The KNAW Early Career Award 2019 has been awarded to lecturer in children’s rights Stephanie Rap. She receives the award for her research into interna...
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KNAW Early Career Awards for three Leiden researchers05 November 2019Three young researchers from Leiden have received an Early Career Award from KNAW for their innovative research. The award consists of the sum of 15,0...
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UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty released16 October 2019On 8 October, the Independent Expert, Prof. Manfred Nowak, leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty presented his report to the UN ...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Hanneke Bennaars and Prof. Frans Sonneveldt08 October 2019The monthly ILS Lunch seminars bring together colleagues and students from Leiden Law School, providing an informal setting to hear what researchers f...
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Shuai Guo speaks at Global Bankruptcy Scholars’ Work-in-Progress Workshop in Brooklyn Law School, New York01 October 2019Shuai Guo, PhD candidate at Company Law and the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, was invited to speak about his research on cross-border bank resol...
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Kenyan Governor signs declaration at Leiden University30 September 2019On 6 September 2019, the Governor of Murang'a County, Mwangi wa Iria, signed a declaration at Leiden University to protect the rights of children.