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Olga Ceran speaks at EuConst Symposium in Maastricht21 June 2024Olga Ceran was a speaker at the European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst) Symposium for Young Scholars that took place in Maastricht on 18 June 2024.
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Christa Tobler discusses indirect discrimination in Vilnius21 June 2024On 13 June, Professor Christa Tobler spoke about indirect discrimination at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania.
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Prisoner reintegration programmes do not work as they should20 June 2024For a successful return to society, incarcerated individuals must work on their reintegration during their sentence. But in practice, not all such ind...
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Postgraduate training helps lecturers develop19 June 2024Jamie Korporaal, who started as a junior lecturer at Leiden Law School during her master's studies and has now joined the faculty as a lecturer, will ...
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Mees Vergouwen wins thesis prize19 June 2024Mees Vergouwen was awarded the ‘Vereniging voor Belastingwetenschap’ thesis prize on 18 June 2024. He obtained his doctorate in 2023 for his thesis on...
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Simona Demkova on ‘Algorithms as Future Decision-Makers’ at the University of Tuscia18 June 2024On 13 June 2024, the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) hosted a doctoral seminar in the series 'Law and Artificial Intelligence', organised by the...
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Interview with interim cabinet minister Van Leeuwen: from lawyer to diplomat to politician17 June 2024In his last week as interim cabinet minister, alumnus and outgoing Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Geoffrey van Leeuwen s...
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Hilde Woker and Renate Reitsma appointed members of National Ocean Decade Committee14 June 2024The National Ocean Decade Committee has appointed two new members from Leiden University. As members of this committee, Hilde Woker and Renate Reitsma...
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Prison reward systems do not work well and prisoners are the ones who pay13 June 2024Ten years ago, a new reward system was introduced in Dutch prisons: the only way prisoners could earn extra ‘freedoms’ was through good behaviour. Fre...
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Using health data for scientific research isn’t that simple12 June 2024While health data is essential for scientific research, that data also needs to be protected. In her doctoral thesis, Irith Kist found a balance betwe...
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The BIAS project at the Japanese Society on Artificial Intelligence Symposium 202410 June 2024On 28 and 29 May, Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, held a workshop on fairness and diversity bias in AI-driven recruitment at the an...
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Carlotta Rigotti at Kyoto University10 June 2024On Thursday 23 May, Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, gave a guest lecture on the regulation of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in th...
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Vasiliki Kosta speaks at the Annual Congress of the Dutch Lawyers Association (Nederlandse Juristen Vereniging)10 June 2024Vasiliki Kosta delivered a spoken column on “The ‘freedom of the sciences’ in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights” during the Annual Congress of the ...
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Earth-Space Symposium: 12-13 November 2024 in Utrecht10 June 2024The Earth-Space Symposium is set to take place on 12 and 13 November. This year’s symposium will be hosted by Utrecht University and its theme will be...
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Dutch Association for Criminology celebrates 50th anniversary in Leiden10 June 2024On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June, criminologists from across the Netherlands and Flanders descended upon the KOG Building for the sixteenth time. Leide...