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Crimmigration: what it is, and its practical implications 20 December 2019
Increasingly, crime and immigration are mentioned in one breath. This 'interweaving' of these terms is referred to as crimmigration, an expression mai...
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Seminar 'The Freedom of Movement in Intra-Schengen Border Areas: Challenges & Opportunities' 17 December 2019
On 10 and 11 December 2019 the seminar ‘The Freedom of Movement in Intra-Schengen Border Areas: Challenges & Opportunities’ was held at Leiden Univers...
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Less finger-wagging, more pragmatism 11 December 2019
Rather than finger-wagging, the Netherlands has opted for pragmatism when it comes to human rights. That is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students 09 December 2019
Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Hanna Bosdriesz awarded doctorate cum laude 04 December 2019
On 3 December 2019 Hanna Bosdriesz defended her dissertation on the fight against impunity for grave human rights violations in Latin America.
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Africa 2020: reflecting on 60 years of independence 29 November 2019
In 1960, 17 countries on the African continent became independent. Sixty years later, the Africanists from Leiden University are reflecting on what in...
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Leiden alumnus Surya Tjandra appointed Deputy Minister in Indonesia 04 November 2019
Surya Tjandra has been appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as Deputy Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister.
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Why citizen participation is not helping to stop environmental pollution in Indonesia 11 October 2019
More than three quarters of the 237 million Indonesian population has no access to tap water. They are dependent on water from rivers often polluted b...
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'Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States' conference in Liverpool 08 October 2019
A PhD candidate from the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Maryla Klajn, was recently invited as one of the speakers to the 'Unwanted Citizens of EU Member S...
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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative regional integration awarded to Leiden University 11 September 2019
Leiden University is happy to announce that it has won a prestigious Jean Monnet grant for a Centre of Excellence. The Centre, called CompaRe, focusse...
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Positive assessment NVAO committee of new master’s degree programme Law & Society 15 July 2019
Last week an audit committee from the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) visited the Wijnhaven building at Campus The ...
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Annelien Bouland on NPO Radio 1 about a TV series on women in Senegal 02 July 2019
Annelien Bouland, PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, was interviewed by VPRO Bureau Buitenland (NPO Radio...
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Van Vollenhoven Lecture by Tony Platt in ‘Leidsch Dagblad’ 16 May 2019
On Thursday 9 May, Prof. Tony Platt delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Crime & Punishment’
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New study finds countries with more rights for LGB people enjoy higher GDP per capita 10 April 2019
Research on 45 years of legal and economic data for 132 countries by international team shows the addition of one right for LGB people is associated w...
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Maartje van der Woude gives a lecture at Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome 08 April 2019
Last week, Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) gave a lecture at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.