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Brechtje Paijmans appointed as endowed professor at Leiden University 25 October 2022
Stichting Onderwijsgeschillen (Foundation for Educational Disputes) is pleased to announce that it has established an endowed chair ‘Conflictoplossing...
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Peter van Es appointed Professor of Notarial Law 25 October 2022
Van Es is the successor to Professor Huijgen whose retirement is approaching after nearly 27 years’ professorship. This new appointment is from Octobe...
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Ministry and Leiden Law School to work together more closely 25 October 2022
The Ministry of Justice and Security and Leiden Law School are planning to collaborate on a more structural basis. This is the outcome of a meeting th...
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Parents under pressure to cooperate 'voluntarily' in youth support 25 October 2022
Staff at Dutch youth care services sometimes put parents under pressure to cooperate 'voluntarily'. There are instances when children are removed fro...
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Sustainability report discussed at symposium Sustainability and Corporate Law 12 October 2022
Recently, the Department of Company Law, in cooperation with Dutch journal Onderneming en Financiering, organised a symposium ‘Duurzaamheid en Onderne...
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Four migration professors doubly appointed in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus network 11 October 2022
Four professors specialising in migration will soon be appointed as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professors: Professor Thea Hilhorst and Professor Peter Schol...
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Education and Child Studies and Child Law to continue successful interdisciplinary collaboration 10 October 2022
Researchers from the Institute of Education and Child Studies and the Department Child Law will be collaborating in two new research projects. The res...
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’ 07 October 2022
Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline rece...
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Leiden University and LUMC and others to evaluate WMO 04 October 2022
On 28 September 2022, ZonMW commissioned a consortium made up of the Erasmus University/Erasmus MC, Leiden University/LUMC, and research agency Pro Fa...
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Mark Klaassen and Olaf van Vliet discuss European labour migrants in FD 04 October 2022
The Netherlands cannot stop European labour migrants coming here. Nor does The Hague have much influence on the influx of asylum seekers. But experts ...
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Matthias Haentjens appointed as Professor of Civil Law 04 October 2022
Starting 1 January 2023, Matthias Haentjens has been appointed as Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University. His expertise lies in the field of prop...
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What rights do donors have? 30 September 2022
Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will a...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022
Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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‘How expensive is migration?’ 29 September 2022
Migrants are expensive. Or are they? Professor Olaf van Vliet collaborated on a big research project from Leiden University to map the costs of migrat...
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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...