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Doing justice to Indonesia's multicoloured society 13 October 2017
A poor woman from Java plucks three cocoa fruits from a plantation, to use as seedlings. The judge convicts her of theft, but she is not sent to priso...
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Workshop Indonesian Family Law on 4 and 5 October 2017 04 October 2017
The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITL...
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Launch NWO VIDI website European Border Communities 21 September 2017
New website on interdisciplinary, international research on migration and border control.
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Call for papers: Claiming Rights and Resources in the African City 30 August 2017
On Wednesday 11 October 2017 the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society are organizing a work...
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The 1st Indonesian-Australian-Netherlands Socio-Legal Studies Conference 08 August 2017
The international conference “Legal Reform in Indonesia: towards Justice” will be held on 6-7 September 2017 at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, In...
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Journals Van Vollenhoven Institute digitized 28 June 2017
As part of Metamorfoze, the national digitalization project for the preservation of paper heritage, journals of The Van Vollenhoven Institute’s librar...
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New research project on ‘Everyday justice and security provision for displaced and residents in Bukavu, DR Congo’ 06 June 2017
From May to November 2017 the Van Vollenhoven Institute will carry out a research project, funded by NWO/WOTRO, on ‘Everyday justice and security prov...
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Discretion and decision making seminar 09 May 2017
On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on d...
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'Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives’: A Summer Honours Class like never before 20 April 2017
In April, the Honours Class 'Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives’ will start. Professor of Law & Society Maartje van der Woude has develope...
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Child Marriage in Indonesia: Research Sharing & Academic Writing Workshop 19 April 2017
From April 27 to 29 April, the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society in collaboration with the Law Faculty, the Gender Studies Grad...
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ILS PhD workshop data visualisation 30 March 2017
On Friday 24th March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) ); who was here for the lecture ‘Exploring the economic life of law with sociologi...
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Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude 08 March 2017
On Friday 24 March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) will deliver the monthly Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture.
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ILS Call open for the submission of subsidy proposals - deadline March 1, 2017 24 February 2017
As part of ILS 2.0 seed money is available for the submission of subsidy proposals and – directly linked and inherent to this – the development of new...
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Interaction between private and public law: Family law from a socio-legal perspective 14 February 2017
On Friday 24 February Prof. Judith Masson, professor of Socio-legal Studies at Bristol University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in the...
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Unity in diversity. The topicality of Professor C. van Vollenhoven 09 February 2017
On 8 February Jan Michiel Otto, professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries, delivered the dies lecture entitled: 'Unity in diversity. The...