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Colonial Bureaucrats, the Metropole and the making of the 1875 East Indies’ Land Alienation Prohibition 20 December 2021
On Thursday 9 December, Dr Upik Djalins presented an online lecture, entitled 'The Colonial Bureaucratic Network versus the Metropole: The Origin Stor...
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Theory in Practice: researching race in the Dutch legal archive 01 December 2021
On Thursday 23 November, Professor Betty de Hart delivered the lecture ‘Exploring the Legal Archive on Race: Methodological Challenges’ as part of the...
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Soulmates in Empire? Van Vollenhoven and the Colonial Contradictions of Grotius 20 October 2021
On Thursday 14 October, Dr Martine van Ittersum gave the first lecture of the Van Vollenhoven Institute’s year-long workshop 'Reconsidering the Socio-...
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Radboud University and Leiden University research ethnic profiling 19 October 2021
A research team from Radboud University and Leiden University, led by senior researchers Prof. Masja van Meeteren (RU/UL), Dr Paul Mutsaers (RU) and P...
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De Verbranders, a podcast on Europe's borders and resistance to them, is online 12 October 2021
De Verbranders, a Dutch podcast produced by PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (Leiden Law School/VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW/CAOS), is online. You ca...
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Lecture series 'Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze' 30 September 2021
The Van Vollenhoven Institute is organising a year-long public lecture series entitled 'Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze'. The lecture series aims t...
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Imagine you’re Ilias from Turkey 28 September 2021
In the confrontational ‘House of Misconceptions’, visitors put themselves in another person’s shoes and have to justify their existence. The performan...
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House of Misconceptions 26 August 2021
Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, organises the House of Misconceptions on 6 and 26 September 2021, together with art collective Li...
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Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisited': making an impact with art 13 July 2021
To achieve societal impact, you need to do more than solely writing academic articles. That's the idea behind the Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisit...
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Van Vollenhoven Staff Participate in Annual Law and Society Association Conference 02 June 2021
Nine staff members of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society participated in the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) annual c...
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Honours class students do research into confidence in the justice system 28 May 2021
Students from the ‘Public confidence in the criminal justice system’ Bachelor’s Honours Class completed this course with their presentations at the fi...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Camille Lefebvre receives John Peters Humphrey Student Fellowship 07 May 2021
Camille Lefebvre has been awarded the John Peters Humphrey Student Fellowship in International Human Rights Law, by the Canadian Council on Internatio...
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Researcher Fachrizal Afandi’s coronavirus year: 'I spoke at over 30 webinars' 29 March 2021
In mid-March 2020, the global coronavirus outbreak changed everything in the Netherlands. Staying at home as much as possible and the 1.5 metre rule b...
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Jorrit Rijpma and Amalia Campos Delgado representatives Latin America & Caribbean 22 February 2021
With the appointments of Rijpma and Campos Delgado, staff from Leiden Law School are now active in all three University region groups.