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eLaw presents two papers on fairness and vulnerability in AI at ACM FAccT 202507 July 2025Staff from eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies contributed to the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), hel...
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Additional funding for five experimental and innovative research projects04 July 2025Five Leiden research projects in history, law and AI have received SSH Open Competition M 2024 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The rese...
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Cake to celebrate two outstanding master’s programmes03 July 2025Colleagues from three departments were treated to cake by Vice Dean Jan Crijns. This was to celebrate the ratings, excellent and above-average, awarde...
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Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta present the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to European Parliament01 July 2025On 24 June, Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta, together with Peter Maassen from the University of Oslo, presented the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to the...
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Rick Lawson appointed new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human RightsAppointment 30 June 2025Rick Lawson, Professor of European Law and former Dean of Leiden Law School, was appointed as the new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human...
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EALCJ conference in Warsaw29 June 2025Gerrard Boot and Yvonne Erkens attended the annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) which was held from 12 to 14 ...
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Melanie Fink Presents on 'Good Administration in the Age of AI' at the European Ombudsman27 June 2025On 26 June 2025, Melanie Fink delivered a presentation titled 'Good Administration in the Age of AI: Explanation Rights and Human Oversight under EU L...
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Martijn van den Brink participates in the EU Law Mountain Seminar in the Czech Republic26 June 2025From 10-13 June, Martijn van den Brink participated in the EU Law Mountain Seminar in the Czech Republic. This event is a regular gathering of scholar...
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment25 June 2025NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what...
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Exhibition 'Outside the Box': Where law and creativity meetHonours College Law 23 June 2025What happens when students are given the freedom to think outside the box? Honours College Law students got to try it through their 'unessays': an alt...
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Melanie Fink on AI Technologies in European Border Management at University of Glasgow Workshop23 June 2025
On 20 June 2025, Melanie Fink presented her research on ‘Robo Swarms and Polygraphs: The Future of European Border Management and its Human Costs’ at ...
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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...