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Obituary: Emeritus Professor Jan Vranken (1948–2025)In memoriam 19 June 2025It is with great sadness that we have learned that Jan Vranken passed away on Tuesday 17 June. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Leiden...
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Academic freedom is at risk – what steps can we take to defend it?Research day 16 June 2025At the annual research day (‘toogdag’) of the research programme Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Pluralist World (EPFR), researchers r...
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New publication - The regulation of sex robots: Gender and sexuality in the era of artificial intelligence16 June 2025Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, has just published her new monograph, The Regulation of Sex Robots: Gender and Sexuality in the Era...
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Change Labs: ‘Redesigning your course from scratch is inspiring – like working with a blank canvas’Innovation in education 16 June 2025This academic year saw the start of the Change Lab(oratory) project. Teaching staff from various departments worked on innovations in their master's c...
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AG Ćapeta Opinion in WS and Others v Frontex: Academic research on Frontex’ liability reaches the CJEU’s Grand Chamber16 June 2025On 12 June 2025, Advocate General Ćapeta delivered her Opinion in WS and Others v Frontex, a Grand Chamber case currently pending before the Court of ...
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International Arbitration and EU Law event at Leiden University13 June 2025In 2024, Nikos Lavranos (who teaches arbitration law in the EIBL Adv LLM programme) and Stefano Castagna (researcher at the Vienna University of Econo...
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De beloning van curatoren bij lege boedels12 June 2025In mei 2025 verscheen 'De beloning van curatoren bij lege boedels', een onderzoek van Universiteit Leiden en SEO Economisch Onderzoek naar de knelpunt...
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Launch of 'Picturing Scholasticide': Preserving knowledge, culture, and livesExhibition 12 June 2025After nine months of intense collaboration between staff and students at Leiden University and universities in Gaza, the 'Picturing Scholasticide' pro...
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Seeking justice is also democracyCurrent affairs 11 June 2025Increasingly, citizens are going to court to challenge decisions by the Public Prosecution Service not to prosecute in certain, sometimes socially sen...
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Vlietland Secondary School visits Leiden Law School to learn about children's rightsSecondary Education 10 June 2025On 27 May, 180 pupils from Vlietland Secondary School visited Leiden University’s law faculty. At the school, pupils learn about themes that are impor...
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eLaw at CPDP 202506 June 2025Last month, eLaw had a strong presence at the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. All Law and Digital Technol...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri Appointed Co-Rapporteur for International Project on Biometrics Governance06 June 2025Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has been appointed Co-Rapporteur for a new joint proje...
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Tools for public authorities to be more transparent about algorithmic profiling05 June 2025Public authorities fail to inform citizens, or inform them too little or too late, about the use of algorithmic profiling in administrative decisions....
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Carla van Baalen awarded Thorbecke MedalAward 04 June 2025Carla van Baalen was awarded the Thorbecke Medal on 4 June. She received the award in recognition of her remarkable and varied oeuvre in the field of ...
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Olga Ceran and Vicky Kosta give a lecture for the Eurodoc Ambassador Programme03 June 2025On 22 May, Olga Ceran and Vicky Kosta gave a lecture for the Eurodoc Ambassador Programme for Values and Democracy in European Research and Higher Edu...