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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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LUSBHR Conference Corporate Responsibility: Current Issues in the Field of Fundamental Rights & SustainabilityLaw and sustainability 21 October 2024On Friday afternoon, 15 November 2024, the conference Corporate Responsibility: Current Issues in the Field of Fundamental Rights & Sustainability wil...
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future18 October 2024Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurit...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri co-chairs the 8th Brussels Privacy Symposium18 October 2024The 8th edition of the Brussels Privacy Symposium, co-organised in Brussels by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Brussels Privacy Hub on 7 October 2...
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Kick off meeting RESOCIAL project18 October 2024On 20 September 2024, Leiden University colleagues Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (Main Applicant), Assistant Professor Michael Klos (Co-App...
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The future is queer and technological. Also human.18 October 2024The history of the LGTBI+ collective, deeply marked by episodes of violence, repression, and discrimination, is also the history of the struggle for s...
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Surrogacy processes identified by Leiden University17 October 2024How many children are born with the help of a surrogate mother in the Netherlands, and which legal obstacles can arise? Through a new interdisciplinar...
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Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy17 October 2024Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...
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Is the precautionary principle adequately embedded in the Dutch Environment and Planning Act?16 October 2024Rogier Kegge, Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, contributed to the technical brief on the precautionary ...
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Larissa van den Herik sworn in as Deputy Judge16 October 2024Larissa van den Herik, Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, was sworn in as a Deputy Judge at ...
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ELS Academy Research Grant awarded to collaborative research design on comparing case law review method vs court file studiesCourt file data wanted! 16 October 2024Last Friday, during the ELS Academy Annual Event, Loran Kostense (VU), Sofia de Jong (Leiden University), Rieneke Stelma-Roorda (VU) and Anne Verboom ...
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Audiovisual research provides new insights into how migrants navigate major life events14 October 2024NWO-funded audiovisual research into the experiences of migrants during major life events has culminated in new insights that can further our understa...
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Flash interview with alumnus Kees van der Staaij: I’m still a lawyer at heart14 October 2024Kees van der Staaij started studying Law at Leiden University in 1986, specialising in Constitutional and Administrative Law. He graduated in 1991.
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Inspiring book review: The Story of Constitutions10 October 2024On 8 October, an inspiring session was held at the KOG Building. The session focused on the award-winning book entitled 'The Story of Constitutions' b...
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Mirjam Sombroek van Doorm appointed member of Netherlands Sports CouncilAppointment 08 October 2024Mirjam Sombroek van Doorm, Professor of Law and Health, became a member of the Netherlands Sports Council in September 2024. This council is an indepe...