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Most children placed in care will not return home11 February 2025After compulsory placement in care, four in ten children return home. Of these, one in four re-enters care. Emergency care orders are often used and o...
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Vasiliki Kosta and Olga Ceran speak on academic freedom at the European Parliament10 February 2025On 5 February, Dr Kosta and Dr Ceran spoke at the high-level conference entitled ‘Perspectives on academic freedom in Europe and beyond’, organised in...
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Stefan Sagel wins ‘Gouden Peer’ in labour law10 February 2025On 10 February, Stefan Sagel was awarded a prestigious ‘Gouden Peer’ in labour law by ‘Mr.’, a well-known platform for legal professionals in the Neth...
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New Year Lecture by Barbara Zwirs inspires Honours College Law students10 February 2025The annual New Year Lecture for Honours College Law took place on Friday 17 January. This year’s speaker was Barbara Zwirs, author and former assistan...
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’Meet the professor 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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Impression: kicking off our 450th anniversary celebration!07 February 2025On 6 January 2025, Leiden Law School celebrated a special milestone: our 450th birthday! Our special anniversary year got underway with a panel discus...
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Improved safety needed in women’s prisonsReport and recommendations 05 February 2025A report by Leiden researchers Esther van Ginneken and Yara Abbing claims that boundary violations and discrimination are a structural problem in wome...
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Leiden University to represent the Netherlands in the 2025 Jessup International Rounds04 February 2025On 31 January 2025, Leiden University participated in the Dutch National Rounds of the 2025 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition,...
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Vincent Delhomme discusses food affordability at European Parliament03 February 2025Vincent Delhomme delivered a keynote speech on the topic of food affordability at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 22 January 2025. The event ...
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eLaw Summer School on Regulating AI in the EU Digital Market31 January 2025Following a highly successful first edition, we are delighted to announce the second Leiden eLaw Summer School on ‘Regulating AI in the EU Digital Mar...
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Protecting human rights through collective redress: Melanie Fink at CEU Vienna on damages actions under EU law31 January 2025On 24 January 2025, a Workshop on ‘Protecting human rights through collective redress’ took place at the Central European University in Vienna. It was...
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Marloes van Noorloos appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure30 January 2025Marloes van Noorloos is appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Leiden University from 1 February 2025.
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Looking at forced migration through an interdisciplinary lensInternational research 30 January 2025Researchers at Leiden University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have launched an initiative to learn more about the experienc...
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Bankruptcy trustees often lack the financial resources needed to tackle fraud30 January 2025In bankruptcies, proceeds are often too low to pay the trustees and fraud often occurs. This lack of resources means that fraudsters can get off scot-...
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The added value of methodology29 January 2025In a new article, four PhD candidates call for methodology to be explicitly stated in tax studies and practice. ‘Our hope is that explicit methodology...