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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.
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Very Well Visited Start of the ILS Lunch Seminar Series 2019-202026 September 2019On Thursday 19 September, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Clare Fenwick and Ilya Kokorin gave two very insightful presen...
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Second PhD Workshop on European/International Insolvency Law23 September 2019After a successful first edition in February 2019, the Stichting Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection invites PhD students from Europe and beyond for...
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Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution10 September 2019This week has seen the publication of the Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution.
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Call for proposals on corporate and organizational decision-making09 September 2019
The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN) – a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden ...
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First ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year with Clare Fenwick and Ilya Kokorin09 September 2019After the summer break, the ILS Lunch Seminar series is back for its fourth and final year. These monthly seminars present the perfect opportunity to ...
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Leiden University supports Child Rights Connect’s efforts to enhance access to justice for children05 September 2019Access to justice is essential for children to be able to exercise and claim their human rights. On 30 April 2019, Chrisje Sandelowsky represented Lei...
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Ton Liefaard speaks at 7th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators04 September 2019From 27-29 August, the Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) took place in Tartu (Estonia). Prof. Ton Liefaard was one o...