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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023 06 July 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researche...
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Hans Franken Lecture by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe 05 July 2023
On June 30, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University organised the annual Hans Franken Lecture. This year the lecture was d...
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga presents at the Technology and Sustainable Development Conference 03 July 2023
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, presented his work on ‘Aligning rules and actions in digital innovation’ at the conference on Te...
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eLaw presented at the European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness '23 15 June 2023
Carlotta Rigotti, post-doc researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Alexandre Puttick (Bern University of Applied Science) pr...
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Interview Roxane de Massol Rebetz – ‘Vulnerability doesn’t come out of a vacuum.’ 30 May 2023
The legal distinction between victims of human trafficking and victims of migrant smuggling is unjust, argues De Massol Rebetz in her PhD thesis. In c...
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Matthew Canfield and Danielle Chevalier receive NWO Grants 25 May 2023
Matthew Canfield (Assistant Professor, Van Vollenhoven Institute) and Danielle Chevalier (Assistant Professor Law & Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute...
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Jan Kleijssen to deliver Hans Franken Lecture 2023 22 May 2023
On 30 June, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University (eLaw) will hold the annual Hans Franken Lecture. This year, the lecture ...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers 22 May 2023
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Maartje van der Woude receives NWO grant for research on ethno-racial profiling 22 May 2023
Maartje van der Woude, (Professor of Law & Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University) has received an NWO research grant. This year, 60 of...
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Open University and Leiden University start Joint Legal Technologies Program 11 May 2023
The Open University and Leiden University will join forces to offer a (Dutch-taught) Joint Legal Technologies Program for professionals. In doing so, ...
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Await AND anticipate. How the municipality of Amsterdam manages developments in the digital public domain. 08 May 2023
The issue of how to deal with a development such as digitalisation in the public domain raises difficult questions for the municipality: who is respon...
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AI as judge? PRE-Class tackles questions about law, technology, and society 19 April 2023
During the final event of the PRE-Class Rechtsgeleerdheid, secondary school pupils organised a mock trial on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI...
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Lily Booter wins Moot Court Challenge Cup 18 April 2023
This is the eleventh time that the Moot Court Challenge Cup has been awarded! This time for best counsel in academic year 2022-2023.
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Alumnus, legal philosopher, and globetrotter Bart Jansen: ‘don’t focus, but scatter yourself’ 18 April 2023
Alumnus Bart Jansen does not like to sit still. He teaches courses, for instance, in the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Curacao. He also likes to dabble i...
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Outcome report for 2nd Expert Workshop on the EU Proposed Regulation on Online Child Sexual Abuse published 06 April 2023
Workshop brings multidisciplinary experts together to debate proposed detection technologies and their impact on fundamental rights.