News
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Hanna Bosdriesz awarded doctorate cum laude 04 December 2019
On 3 December 2019 Hanna Bosdriesz defended her dissertation on the fight against impunity for grave human rights violations in Latin America.
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Africa 2020: reflecting on 60 years of independence 29 November 2019
In 1960, 17 countries on the African continent became independent. Sixty years later, the Africanists from Leiden University are reflecting on what in...
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Leiden alumnus Surya Tjandra appointed Deputy Minister in Indonesia 04 November 2019
Surya Tjandra has been appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as Deputy Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister.
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Why citizen participation is not helping to stop environmental pollution in Indonesia 11 October 2019
More than three quarters of the 237 million Indonesian population has no access to tap water. They are dependent on water from rivers often polluted b...
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'Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States' conference in Liverpool 08 October 2019
A PhD candidate from the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Maryla Klajn, was recently invited as one of the speakers to the 'Unwanted Citizens of EU Member S...
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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative regional integration awarded to Leiden University 11 September 2019
Leiden University is happy to announce that it has won a prestigious Jean Monnet grant for a Centre of Excellence. The Centre, called CompaRe, focusse...
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Positive assessment NVAO committee of new master’s degree programme Law & Society 15 July 2019
Last week an audit committee from the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) visited the Wijnhaven building at Campus The ...
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Annelien Bouland on NPO Radio 1 about a TV series on women in Senegal 02 July 2019
Annelien Bouland, PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, was interviewed by VPRO Bureau Buitenland (NPO Radio...
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Van Vollenhoven Lecture by Tony Platt in ‘Leidsch Dagblad’ 16 May 2019
On Thursday 9 May, Prof. Tony Platt delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Crime & Punishment’
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New study finds countries with more rights for LGB people enjoy higher GDP per capita 10 April 2019
Research on 45 years of legal and economic data for 132 countries by international team shows the addition of one right for LGB people is associated w...
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Maartje van der Woude gives a lecture at Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome 08 April 2019
Last week, Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) gave a lecture at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.
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Post-Gaddafi Libya and Prison Climate in the Netherlands: The ILS Lunch Seminar of March 22 March 2019
On Thursday 14 March, the third ILS Lunch Seminar of this year took place. In this well visited seminar, Nienke van Heek and Esther van Ginneken gave ...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Nienke van Heek and Esther van Ginneken 06 March 2019
The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different Institutes situated within Leiden Law School. On Thursday 14 Mar...
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Interview with Suliman Ibrahim on Libya in ‘Mare’ 27 February 2019
Suliman Ibrahim was interviewed by Leiden University’s weekly newspaper ‘Mare’ about his research on Libya.
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Interview with Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii on Child Marriage in Indonesian newspaper ‘Jakarta Globe’ 20 February 2019
PhD candidates Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii were interviewed about their research on Child Marriage in Indonesia in the ‘Jakarta Globe’, a daily online ...