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New course for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee connects research, reflection, and professional practiceCourse 02 February 2026Leiden Law School has developed a new course for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, bringing together scientific research and professional practice. ...
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VVI, LIAS, and Universitas Indonesia to organise Indonesia Human Rights Update in June 202601 February 2026This initiative is supported by the Leiden University Global Seed Fund (LUGF) 2025, awarded to Santy Kouwagam (VVI) and Irene Hadiprayitno (LIAS) toge...
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LDE GMD grant awarded to 'Crossing Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches in Research on Migration and Diversity' project29 January 2026The project 'Crossing Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches in Research on Migration and Diversity' has been awarded funding through the LDE Governance ...
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Maartje van der Woude appointed Mercator Fellow in GöttingenAppointment 27 January 2026Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude has been appointed as a Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s research group Mobility Ri...
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Hardline migration policy pushes ICE towards violence – could it happen here?Current affairs 16 January 2026An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on 7 January, igniting nationwide fury over escalating federal violence. Could such an incident oc...
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New publication on EU law sexual imagery of minorsOverlapping offences, divergent logics: Reconciling EU law on sexual imagery of minors 09 January 2026Carlotta Rigotti and Christina Pasvanti Gkioka from eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, have published an article titled 'Overlapping Offe...
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New blog in the context of the Picturing Scholasticide project23 December 2025Nadia Sonneveld and Matthew Canfield and other researchers in the Picturing Scholasticide project have published a blog on their research on the websi...
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eLaw co-authors award-winning article on Explainable AI 2.010 December 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, is co-author of the article 'Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A M...
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eLaw hosts second BIAS capacity-building session on AI in the workplace01 December 2025On 20 November 2025, eLaw hosted the second capacity-building session of the BIAS project, coinciding with the city’s first snowfall of the year. The ...
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Vidi grants for research on sexual intimacy using robots and the life-course impact of criminal sanctions27 November 2025Two colleagues have each received a prestigious Vidi grant. We spoke to criminologist and Associate Professor Hilde Wermink, and Eduard Fosch Villaron...
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The Digital Omnibus is a risk for our digital rights26 November 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, was interviewed by EUobserver and Al Jazeera English on the European Commission...
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Balancing freedom of expression and non-discrimination19 November 2025Can politicians say whatever they want? What is the limit and when can the Public Prosecution Service act? PhD candidate Jip Stam examined the limits ...
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Nikki Frantzen winnares Moot Court wisselbeker18 November 2025The Moot Court trophy has been awarded for the sixteenth time! This time, it went to the best pleader in the spring of the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Risks of radical changes to some of the GDPR pillars12 November 2025EUobserver has published an article on the European Commission’s leaked 'Digital Omnibus' draft, featuring comments by Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate...
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Vulnerability, Data and Dating Apps: Malgieri on human risks and empathy strategies10 November 2025
In a new episode of The Digital Period podcast, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor at eLaw, discusses vulnerability and data protection. He exp...