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UK Supreme Court ruling on sex definition sparks European law debate27 January 2026Christa Tobler, Professor of European law, attended and spoke on the implications of the UK Supreme Court’s ruling for EU non-discrimination law in th...
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Anouk Goemans receives National Youth Care Award 2025Prize 27 January 2026Professor by Special Appointment Anouk Goemans has received the National Youth Care Award 2025 from the ‘Stichting Steunfonds Pro Juventute’. The cash...
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Launch of the Prof. Andrea Evers Fund for Health, Behaviour and SocietyNew fund 26 January 2026In memory of Andrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology, the Prof. Andrea Evers Fund for Health, Behaviour and Society has been established. With th...
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From sovereignty at sea to self-determination: the geopolitics of GreenlandCurrent affairs 22 January 2026Who holds rights to Greenland’s surrounding waters and natural resources? Which interests are at stake and for whose benefit? We put these questions t...
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Legal Tech Challenge: ‘With a clear idea, what first felt daunting became surprisingly feasible’20 January 2026The Legal Tech Challenge 2026 kicks off on 5 February. Ishana Bhadai, Lizzy Streng and Jonathan Scholten van den Belt were last year’s winners. Here, ...
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Hardline migration policy pushes ICE towards violence – could it happen here?Current affairs 16 January 2026An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on 7 January, igniting nationwide fury over escalating federal violence. Could such an incident oc...
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Olga Ceran awarded the Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Fellowship 2025/2616 January 2026Dr Olga Ceran has been selected as a 2025/26 Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Fellow. As one of 11 fellows in this year’s cohort, she will work on a projec...
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How do you decide on the future of a child placed in care?Research project 15 January 2026When a child is placed in care, the assumption is always that the child can return home again. But there are still many questions about how this proce...
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Aya Rizk examines automation’s impact on public administration decision-making15 January 2026The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' held its second session on 12 January 2026, at Leiden Law School. Dr Aya Rizk, Linköping Universi...
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Alumnus Jeroen Zwemmer: ‘The legal component is the core of my work’Alumni interview 15 January 2026Jeroen Zwemmer’s student days in Leiden ended in 2023, after completing two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, a student board year, and an exchange seme...
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How minority governments could benefit the NetherlandsPhD defence 15 January 2026Minority governments only become an option when attempts to form a government collapse. PhD candidate Corné Smit explored why such governments have be...
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Children’s services need better data collection: ‘How can we prevent out-of-home placements?’Inaugural lecture 12 January 2026What reduces the likelihood of children being taken into care? At present, child protection services don’t have the data to answer that question. In h...
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New publication on EU law sexual imagery of minorsOverlapping offences, divergent logics: Reconciling EU law on sexual imagery of minors 09 January 2026Carlotta Rigotti and Christina Pasvanti Gkioka from eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, have published an article titled 'Overlapping Offe...
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Yvonne Erkens appointed Professor of Labour LawAppointment 08 January 2026Yvonne Erkens has been appointed Professor of Labour Law at Leiden University as of 1 January 2026.
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New blog in the context of the Picturing Scholasticide project23 December 2025Nadia Sonneveld and Matthew Canfield and other researchers in the Picturing Scholasticide project have published a blog on their research on the websi...