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Special Tribunal for The Gambia13 March 2025At the 66th Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 15 December 2024, a landmark decision...
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Farewell Niels Blokker: ‘Though the law faculty is changing, much remains the same.’13 March 2025One of our most engaged and expert scholars is bidding farewell. After forty years at Leiden Law School, first as a student and later as a professor, ...
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Students attend hearing at Aliens Division of Court of Rotterdam11 March 2025On Thursday 6 March, students from the elective course Immigration Law attending a hearing at the Aliens Division of the Court of Rotterdam.
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Leiden University wins Frits Kalshoven International Law Moot Court Competition 202511 March 2025Every year, the Netherlands Red Cross and Belgian Red Cross-Flanders organise the Frits Kalshoven International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competitio...
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Leiden and Cambridge help create a model course on EU law for Ukraine07 March 2025Whilst resisting abhorrent Russian aggression, Ukraine has made a clear choice for a future in Europe. With an association agreement already in place,...
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Report on protection of whistleblowers sent to Dutch House of Representatives05 March 2025SEO and Leiden University have conducted an implementation assessment of the Whistleblowers Protection Act (Wbk). The Act aims to protect those who re...
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Launch of second student edition of Mediaforum, chaired by Emma de Vries05 March 2025On 14 February, the second student edition of Mediaforum, journal of media and communication law, was festively launched with a symposium in the Acade...
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Christa Tobler gives a public lecture at the University of Tasmania on the European human rights approach to climate change05 March 2025For several years, the University of Tasmania has been ranked first among universities worldwide in terms of climate action. The interest in this topi...
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Emma de Vries writes annotation for EHRC-updates05 March 2025
Emma de Vries, PhD candidate in the Department of European Law at Leiden University, has written an annotation for EHRC updates on the ECHR judgment i...
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Vincent Delhomme participates at the official launch of the EU Health Union Fellowship04 March 2025On 10 February 2025, Vincent Delhomme attended the official launch of the new EU Health Union Fellowship at the College of Europe (Bruges), where he d...
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Successful Leiden edition of Constitutional Law Conference04 March 2025Since 1973, scholars of constitutional law have gathered for the annual Constitutional Law Conference. This conference is organised alternately at a l...
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Christa Tobler speaks at the University of Tasmania (Australia) about age discrimination26 February 2025
During a visit to the University of Tasmania on 26 February 2025, Christa Tobler organised a staff seminar on the topic ‘Do we need a UN Convention on...
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Do we need a right to a human explanation? Melanie Fink at Leiden University’s SAILS Lunchtime Seminars21 February 2025On 10 February 2025, Melanie Fink presented her recently awarded NWO Veni project at Leiden University’s SAILS Lunchtime Seminars.
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Togo's potential membership of the AES19 February 2025On 16 January 2025, the Togolese Foreign Minister Robert Dussey mentioned the possibility of Togo joining the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Is this ...
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Reflections on the implementation of the Dutch Open Government Act17 February 2025Wim Voermans and Annemarie Drahmann attended a parliamentary standing committee which reflected on the implementation of the Open Government Act in th...