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Master thesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award 2019!04 September 2019
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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Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights received their master diplomas30 August 2019In the presence of their families and friends, the thesis supervisors personally addressed each of the students and presented them with their well-de...
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Successful 7th edition of the Frontiers of Children’s Rights Summer School16 July 2019From 24 to 28 June the 7th edition of Leiden University’s annual Frontiers of Children’s Rights Summer School took place in Leiden and The Hague.
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Leiden University endorses Justice for Children Call to Action16 July 2019This Justice for Children Call to Action offers a new starting point to place children at the heart of an emerging global movement for justice. It str...
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Presentation about bitcoin, crypto-custodians and their insolvency15 July 2019During a conference in Oxford on the 26th of June, Ilya Kokorin, Matthias Haentjens and Tycho de Graaf presented a paper about bitcoin, the insolvency...
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Winner NJV Publication Award 2019: Thijmen Nuninga11 July 2019Thijmen Nuninga was presented the publication award 2019 by the Dutch Lawyers’ Association (NJV) for the best scholarly article.
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The last ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year in hindsight02 July 2019Last Thursday, the last ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. In this successful and well-visited edition, Prof. Pablo Mendes de Leon an...
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Leiden Delegation to 19th International Insolvency Institute Annual Conference in Barcelona20 June 2019From 16 to 18 June 2019, Professor Matthias Haentjens, Professor Reinout Vriesendorp, emeritus Professor Bob Wessels, and PhD candidate Shuai Guo from...
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How does the European Stability Mechanism safeguard financial stability?18 June 2019
On Wednesday 5 June, Kalin Anev Janse, Secretary-General and Management Board Member of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), was invited to give a ...
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Final report of the De Winter Committee: inadequate protection from violence for children in youth care since 194514 June 2019A significant percentage of children who have spent a period in youth care institutions or foster homes since 1945 received inadequate protection from...
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Yannick van den Brink participated in live webinar ‘Child Pre-trial Detention’28 May 2019On 20 May 2019, Dr Yannick van den Brink, Assistant Professor at the Department of Child Law, participated in a live webinar titled ‘Child Pre-trial D...
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Two more alumni with their sights on the European Parliament17 May 2019It's a no-brainer: of the candidates that you can vote for on 23 May, 14 studied at Leiden University. We asked four of them about their motivation an...
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Leiden Team Succeeds in Ian Fletcher Insolvency Law Moot in Singapore01 May 2019From Friday 29 till Sunday 31 March 2019, the third edition of the Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot (Moot) was held at the Singapore Man...
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LLM Jeugdrecht come to Leiden for careers afternoon and alumni evening23 April 2019On Tuesday 16 April 2019 study association JSV Liberi and the Department of Child Law welcomed alumni of the master’s programme Jeugdrecht to a career...
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International team of Leiden University wins award for best written memorial at Children's Rights Moot Court 201916 April 2019We are proud of Chelsea Schuin, Xin Jiang, Siksanee Phollarpthawee and Lucy Opoka for their outstanding research and writing performance in the Childr...