News
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New website Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory 03 July 2020
A new website has been designed to make the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, which started in 2018, more accessible.
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Two new assistant professors for Empirical Legal Studies 03 July 2020
Niek Strohmaier and Gitta Veldt will start as assistant professors within the project Empirical Legal Studies (ELS). Their appointments are part of th...
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Vanessa Mak appointed Chair of Civil Law 01 July 2020
Vanessa Mak is appointed Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University as of 1 October 2020. She will succeed Professor Jac. Hijma who is retiring.
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Mariëlle Bruning Expert Council of Europe 24 June 2020
The Council of Europe is currently implementing its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021), one of the priority areas of which is “a life fr...
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Third Party Intervention to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 15 June 2020
Upon invitation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a large group of academics have submitted a third party intervention in a case against...
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PhD Defence Sabine Witting 08 June 2020
Sabine Witting, PhD student at Child Law and eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, will defend her thesis on Thursday, June 11.
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Prof. Liefaard addresses legal professionals in India about COVID-responses and children’s rights 04 June 2020
Prof. Ton Liefaard connected to around 150 legal professionals in India and beyond to reflect upon the COVID-response of governments from a children’s...
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First live session Meeting Children's Rights Leaders @ Leiden Law 18 May 2020
'The impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 may be even greater and long-lasting. This is an exciting time for you as students to be setting out into the ...
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Ilya Kokorin wins Gold Medal for the III 2020 Prize in International Insolvency Studies 07 May 2020
Ilya Kokorin, Meijers PhD candidate at the Department of Financial Law, has been awarded the Gold Medal in the prestigious competition of the Internat...
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Publication of book on Rescue of Business in Europe 23 April 2020
Oxford University Press has published the edited volume based on the European Law Institute's (ELI) project 'Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law'. Th...
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Transacties met verbonden partijen (RPT's) en concerns in het Oekraïense ondernemingsrecht 16 April 2020
On April 8th 2020, Ivan Romashchenko successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'Related party transactions and corporate groups: When Eastern Europ...
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‘I'm really grateful to my fellow lecturers for their help’ 08 April 2020
Our lecturers had just a week to convert their subjects into online formats. It was an enormous challenge because by no means everyone was involved in...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap receive 444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant 06 April 2020
The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) has awarded an 444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant to Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap to organise a half-day ...
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Insolvency law PhD students meet for research workshop at Leiden University 11 March 2020
Leiden University hosted the second annual PhD workshop on European and International Insolvency Law organized by the Foundation Bob Wessels Insolvenc...
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Children in court proceedings should be heard at much younger age 02 March 2020
On 2 March 2020 the report Kind in proces: van communicatie naar effectieve participatie (Children in proceedings: from communication towards effectiv...