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Maartje van der Woude wins Heineken Young Scientists Award 23 May 2018
Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (37) is one of the four young scientists who have been awarded a 2018 Heineken Young Scientists Aw...
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Kick-off conference on the role of law in Libya’s national reconciliation 30 April 2018
On 11 and 12 April, the kick-off conference “The role of law in Libya’s national reconciliation” took place. The conference marked the official start ...
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‘State must protect citizens in domain cyberspace’ 26 April 2018
‘It is recommended that the State assumes sovereign responsibilities to protect life, liberty and property of its citizens in the domain of cyberspace...
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Borders and mobility in the focus 04 April 2018
From March 14 to 16, 2018 Prof. mr. dr. Maartje van der Woude organized an international seminar and PhD masterclass on the topic of “Transformative B...
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Helena Ursic will speak on a panel focused on the Cambridge Analytica scandal 03 April 2018
Recently, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have become highly polarizing figures in a data privacy scandal of global (and potentially historic) propor...
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The April edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars with Adriano Martufi and Marco Stam 12 March 2018
The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars bring together colleagues and students from Leiden Law School, by providing an informal setting to hear what researcher...
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The Challenges of the Sharing Economy: Vassilis Hatzopoulos presents his latest monograph on the Collaborative Economy and EU law 12 March 2018
Last Thursday, the March edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars took place. This well attended seminar took on a slightly different format, as we had the h...
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Simone van der Hof gives keynote about 'Data Protection and Children's Rights' in Amsterdam 19 February 2018
On 15 February 2018, Simone van der Hof gave a keynote lecture entitled 'Data Protection and Children's Rights - the reasoning behind the protective p...
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Simone van der Hof gives lecture on AI and combating online sexual abuse in Trier 19 February 2018
On 20 February 2018, Simone van der Hof will give a lecture on the use of AI in combating online sexual abuse of children at the Academy of European L...
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Simone van der Hof on GDPR, children and marketing at CPDP 2018 15 February 2018
During the 11th International Congress Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) in Brussels, Simone van der Hof gave a presentation on the Genera...
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Maartje van de Woude makes an appeal to all Leiden researchers in the field of migration, integration and borders 15 February 2018
On 1 February 2018 Professor Maartje van der Woude (professor of Law and Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society) bec...
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EuDEco/eLaw panel on accountability in algorithmic networks at CPDP2018 02 February 2018
As partner within the EuDEco-poject, the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) organized a panel titled “Filling accountability holes in algo...
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Changes at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) 01 February 2018
As from 1 February, prof. Adriaan Bedner will be the new Head of Department of the VVI.
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Report of the Conference ‘Adat law 100 years on: towards a new interpretation?’ now available 31 January 2018
This international conference, held in Leiden form 22 to 24 May 2017, focused on adat law in Indonesia a century after the Adat Law Foundation (Adatre...
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Research Access to Polish Border Guards 30 January 2018
The PhD Project “Agents of change? (Hi)stories, perspectives, and every-day practices of intra-Schengen border officials” as carried out by PhD Candid...