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Multilateral tax treaty 03 November 2017
On Thursday 16 November, Dirk Broekhuijsen will defend his doctoral thesis entitled ‘A multilateral tax treaty: designing an instrument to modernise i...
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Prof. Ton Liefaard speaks in Strasbourg about children’s rights in the field of biomedicine 27 October 2017
On 24-25 October 2017, the Council of Europe organized an international conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Human Rights...
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Stephanie Rap visiting lecturer at Renmin University of China Law School 23 October 2017
From 9 until 20 October 2017 Stephanie Rap has visited the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing to teach a course titled Juvenile delinque...
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Group of experts in the field of international child abduction visits the Child Law Department 20 October 2017
On 18 October 2017, Leiden Law School was honored to welcome a group of experts upon invitation of Prof. M.R. Bruning, professor of Child Law and head...
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Steef Bartman delivers keynote address at congress in Cyprus 17 October 2017
On October 7th the Department of Law at the University of Cyprus hosted a conference on company law titled: Cross-borders Mergers Directive: EU Perspe...
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Prof. Ton Liefaard to speak about access to justice for children in The Hague 12 October 2017
On 3 November 2017 in The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Prof. Ton Liefaard (Professor of Children's Rights at Leiden University and...
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First ILS-seminar of the academic year 10 October 2017
On Thursday 21 September the first monthly ILS lunch of the academic year took place. Prof. Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, from the Department for Criminal Law...
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Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law 10 October 2017
Alexandre Genest will defend his PhD dissertation ‘Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law’ as part of a double PhD progr...
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International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in The Hague 04 October 2017
On 2 and 3 October 2017, a delegation of the Child Law Department has participated in the 15th European regional conference of the International Socie...
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Masterthesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award 2017! 05 September 2017
The Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children ...
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Veni award for Stephanie Rap 31 August 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to Stephanie Rap. This award offers promising young scientists the...
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Chinese delegation at Leiden Law School for juvenile justice study visit 25 August 2017
From 21 August to 24 August, a Chinese delegation together with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) conducted a...
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Contribution to the book Socio-Economic Human Rights by Iris Houben and Hetty ten Oever 28 July 2017
Houben and Ten Oever investigate the relationship between public service obligations in EU law (PSOs) and human rights. PSOs served mainly as a correc...
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Study on Children’s Rights and Biomedicine for Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics 10 July 2017
The study ‘From Law to Practice: Towards a Roadmap to Strengthen Children’s Rights in the Era of Biomedicine’ written by experts from Leiden Law Schoo...
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Putting the Dutch children’s ombudsman on the map 06 July 2017
In the last five years the Dutch children’s ombudsman has developed into a full-fledged supervisory body monitoring compliance with children’s rights ...