The Spanish government has established a truth commission to address human rights violations committed during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent...

Leiden Law School (departments of Private Law and eLaw) invites you to contribute a chapter in a book on Quantum Technology and Law. The book will con...

Ben Van Rompuy, associate professor of European Competiton Law, appeared on 15 April as an expert before the European Parliament's Committee on the I...

As many as 180 Leiden University alumni met in Brussels last week. A young, diverse and international group, they listened attentively to speeches by ...

Tobacco use in the Netherlands is no longer declining and is instead increasing, raising concerns among public health experts and policymakers. Partic...

The lecture series Humanity in the Automated State continued on 9 April 2026 at Leiden Law School with Professor of Public Law, Ida Koivisto from the ...

The Jean Monnet and Common Market Law Review (CML Rev) Launch Conference of the CML Rev extraordinary issue ‘EU values and interests in a time of geop...

The debate on migration and criminalisation concerns everyone from citizens and policymakers to academics. The Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritaria...

It was the seventeenth time the Moot Court Challenge Cup had been awarded! This time for the best pleader in the autumn term of the 2025–2026 academic...

Which law governs the Strait of Hormuz? Under international law, both Iran and the US are expected to comply with the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. I...

Of the 3,750 participants from 100 schools, only 75 students made it to the final stages of the Economics Olympiad in The Hague. On 1 April, they gath...

On 2 April, the final of the Legal Tech Challenge 2026 took place in the Academy Building of Leiden University. During the final, teams of students pi...

At the end of March, the Voice of the Child conference launched three films on children’s hearings in European family law courts to support judicial t...

Research conducted by Leiden University shows that when parents adjust their working hours, other parents often follow suit. Understanding how other f...

Over the course of eight weeks, twelve law students spent several days at the various sectors of the Court of The Hague where they learned all about t...