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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people23 January 2019Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage t...
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Leiden University takes part in new international research project TRAFIG/Creative solutions to the challenge of forced displacement23 January 2019On 17th December, the Global Compact on Refugees has been adopted at the UN General Assembly. One of the central goals of the Compact on Refugees is t...
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PhD Candidate Robbert van Eijk measures privacy component in online advertising18 January 2019You check out Facebook to see if one of your friends or someone in your family has done something interesting. Your attention is drawn to a holiday ad...
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Excellent status for Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies17 January 2019The Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies has been assessed as excellent by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders ...
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Eight Meijers prizes awarded14 January 2019On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers prizes were awarded for the best published article, of each faculty research programme, written by Assistant...
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Mark Leiser delivers report to Scottish Government’s Consultation21 December 2018Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor in Law and Digital Technologies, provided answers to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on Enhanced Oversight ...
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Adat land rights: the solution for land conflicts in Indonesia?19 December 2018Land conflicts between farmers and government authorities or large plantation businesses are an everyday occurrence in many countries in the Global So...
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Bastiaan Rijpkema publishes Militant Democracy: The Limits of Democratic Tolerance with Routledge18 December 2018The English edition of Rijpkema’s Weerbare democratie is published in Routledge’s Extremism and Democracy series, one of the leading series in the fie...
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Gineke Wiggers receives prize for paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval17 December 2018PhD student Gineke Wiggers has won the 2nd prize for her paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval in the PhD consortium of the 31s...
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Participation in UN Expert Group on Marine Litter and Microplastics13 December 2018Last week Esther Kentin participated in the Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Expert Group on Marine Litter and Microplastics organized by UN En...
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Presentation Karolina la Fors on NordSteva Conference11 December 2018Karolina La Fors has given a presentation with the title: User-Centric Responses to Psychometric Testing & Targeted Advertising at the NordSteva Confe...
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Helena U. Vrabec's key note at the 2018 Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Lecture in London10 December 2018On November 23, eLaw researcher Helena U. Vrabec participated in a keynote panel at the 2018 Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Lecture in Lon...
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Visit Leiden Law School to Indonesia06 December 2018From 24 to 30 November 2018, a delegation from Leiden Law School, led by dean Joanne van der Leun and Adriaan Bedner, visited several partner universi...
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Afshin Ellian and Bastiaan Rijpkema publish new volume on Militant Democracy with Springer03 December 2018How can party bans be justified? Which parties were banned in post-war Europe – and why? Do militant democracy instruments work? Is an international m...
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Strategic partnership eLaw and Privacy Company02 December 2018Strategic partnership with Privacy Company brings GDPR work experience to students of Law and Digital Technologies.