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Gitta Veldt wins Meijers prize and Van Wersch Springplank prize 19 January 2021The Meijers prizes are awarded each year for the best published article from each faculty research programme. Veldt received the prize for her contrib...
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Sierd Schaafsma appointed justice in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands 24 August 2020The Dutch Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of a Vice President and of three justices, including Professor Sierd Schaafsma, in the Sup...
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Two new assistant professors for Empirical Legal Studies 03 July 2020Niek 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 2020Vanessa 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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Farewell Symposium John Cartwright and Inaugural Lecture Ewan McKendrick 13 February 2020On Monday 16 March, Ewan McKendrick will give his inaugural lecture in the Academy Building at 16:00 hrs, on Commercial Contract Law: How Important is...
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Looking back on the ILS Lunch Seminar of November 02 December 2019The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different Institutes situated within Leiden Law School. On Thursday 28 Nov...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Melanie Fink and Tycho de Graaf 17 November 2019The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars have slowly developed into somewhat of a tradition. During this seminar series, all researchers from Leiden Law School ...
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Presentation about bitcoin, crypto-custodians and their insolvency 15 July 2019During a conference in Oxford on the 26th of June, Ilya Kokorin, Matthias Haentjens and Tycho de Graaf presented a paper about bitcoin, the insolvency...
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Winner NJV Publication Award 2019: Thijmen Nuninga 11 July 2019Thijmen Nuninga was presented the publication award 2019 by the Dutch Lawyers’ Association (NJV) for the best scholarly article.
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Contract law offers framework for legal relationship between pupils and schools 10 December 2018When a pupil applies for a place at a school and is admitted, a legal relationship is established between them. The exact nature of this legal relatio...
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Board the Blockchain Train! 20 November 2018When talking about innovative technologies, Blockchain should certainly be mentioned. In the Honours Class ‘Board the Blockchain Train!’, students lea...
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Ruben de Graaff and Dorine Verheij give a lecture in Antwerp 26 September 2018At the conference ‘Law-Making in Multilevel Settings: Federalism, Europe and Beyond’, Ruben de Graaff and Dorine Verheij provided a lecture on the top...
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Last ILS Lunch Seminar before the summer break with Prof. Rank and Prof. Barentsen 31 May 2018The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different institutes situated within Leiden Law School and are steadily de...
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Keynote speech professor Nico Schrijver at UN celebration of 70 Years International Law Commission 29 May 2018Professor Nico Schrijver is professor of public international law at Leiden University and currently the president of the Institut de Droit internatio...
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The Challenges of the Sharing Economy: Vassilis Hatzopoulos presents his latest monograph on the Collaborative Economy and EU law 12 March 2018Last Thursday, the March edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars took place. This well attended seminar took on a slightly different format, as we had the h...