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Joanne van der Leun reappointed as Dean of Leiden Law School 09 November 2022
Professor Joanne van der Leun has been reappointed as Dean of Leiden Law School by the Executive Board of Leiden University. She has been appointed un...
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Leiden Law School receives praise during research evaluation 02 November 2022
Every six years, the research conducted at all law schools in the Netherlands is evaluated during a research evaluation. On 6 and 7 October, it was Le...
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Hybrid working seems to be working 23 September 2022
‘It is OK for employees to work flexibly, as long as they spend 40 hours in the office’, said Elon Musk in June 2022. Are we back where we started now...
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Top Downloaded Article! 05 July 2022
We are excited to share that the article, Does pre‐packed bankruptcy create value? An empirical study of post-bankruptcy employment retention in The N...
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From Leiden to Delaware: How empirical legal research on valuation biases was used in a US courtroom 05 April 2022
Many of our department’s staff members are actively involved in the Empirical Legal Studies lab and strive towards publishing impactful empirical lega...
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Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN) goes live with an inaugural conference on ‘Business Resilience’ 28 February 2018
The Business & Liability Research Network’s (BLRN) Opening Conference on Business Resilience was a resounding success and the report below provides an...
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Successful ELI Business Rescue Conference in Leiden 18 November 2016
Over 30 academics, practitioners and judges participated in the ELI Business Rescue Conference, which took place on 16 and 17 November 2016 in Leiden ...
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5th Annual Restructuring conference (Kufstein, Austria) 31 October 2016
Over 400 registrants participated in the 5th Annual Restructuring conference, organised at the Institut für Grenzüberschreitende Restrukturierung, Uni...
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Discussing Business Rescue in Cascais 23 September 2016
From 21-22 September 2016, The INSOL Europe Academic Forum met in Cascais (Portugal). The Business Rescue in Insolvency Law project team of the Europe...
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Business Rescue: interim results discussed in Ferrara 12 September 2016
From 7-9 September the Annual Conference of the European Law Institute (ELI) was held, this time kindly hosted by the University of Ferrara in Italy. ...
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Looking back on the hindsight bias in insolvency law: a foresight in retrospect 30 June 2016
Preceding the inaugural address of Reinout Vriesendorp as Professor of Insolvency Law at Leiden University: “***+it happens; then and now” a seminar t...
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**it happens 27 June 2016
There are times when an insolvency practitioner has to weigh his role in administering bankrupt estates. This was the message of Professor Reinout Vri...
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Insolvency and Restructuring Glossary 2016 01 June 2016
Entering in the legal area of restructuring in the EU, new legal terms will become part of our jargon. Cram-down, stay, restructuring and moratorium a...
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Seminar: Hindsight bias in insolvency law 31 May 2016
Scholars and lawyers come across situations where insolvency office holders (court-appointed administrators/trustees) of insolvent/bankrupt companies ...
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Investigating Bankruptcies in the Belgian Hospitality Industry 31 May 2016
esearchers Strohmaier and Darouei investigate bankruptcies in the Belgian Hospitality Industry The two newly recruited doctoral researchers at the ...