News
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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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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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‘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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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...
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Council of Europe protects children’s rights through action plan in biomedicine 19 February 2020
The action plan focuses on addressing key challenges posed by technological developments and trends in biomedical practices
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New volume on ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’ 06 February 2020
At the start of 2020, the book ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’ was published by Intersentia.
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Stephanie Rap receives KNAW Young Career Award 05 February 2020
On Tuesday 4 February, Stephanie Rap, lecturer in children’s rights, was presented with the KNAW Early Career Award 2019. She receives the award for h...
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Leiden University supports amici curiae brief in U.S. case about detention of immigrant children 03 February 2020
The amici curiae brief was filed with the United States District Court for the Central District of California, on 28 January 2020.
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Situation analysis of children and adolescents in the Caribbean Netherlands published by UNICEF 03 February 2020
In 2019 UNICEF published the situation analysis of children and adolescents in the Caribbean Netherlands, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interi...
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Yannick van den Brink participates in live webinar ‘Pre-Trial Detention of Children in India’ 03 February 2020
On 27 January 2020, Dr Yannick van den Brink, Assistant Professor at the Department of Child Law, participated in a live webinar titled ‘Pre-Trial Det...
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New legislation on surrogacy desperately needed 17 January 2020
Professor of Family Law, Lies Punselie, welcomes the new legislation on surrogacy. The law as it currently stands is ill equipped to deal with the iss...
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New book out: Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands 23 December 2019
Ton Liefaard, Stephanie Rap and Peter Rodrigues have edited the book 'Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands. 30 Years of the UN Convention o...
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Yannick van den Brink gives key note speech in Valencia about children’s rights and youth justice 17 December 2019
On 12 December 2019, Dr Yannick van den Brink, assistant professor at the Department of Child Law and Rubicon Research Fellow at the University of Cam...
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Sarah-Devorah Poot wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019 11 December 2019
On 10 December Sarah-Devorah Poot won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019 for her thesis on child-friendly judgments.