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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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VvA meeting to focus on transnational labour law 19 March 2024
At the meeting of the Dutch Employment Law Association (Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht, VvA) on 12 March 2024, which Paul van der Heijden moderated as c...
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool 18 March 2024
How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education La...
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‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’ 18 March 2024
Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many e...
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AI recognizes anxious youth based on their brain structure 18 March 2024
A unique multicenter study, including about 3,500 youth between 10 and 25 years old from across the globe, shows that artificial intelligence - specif...
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Monica den Boer installed as professor by special appointment Police Studies: ‘The blue line in my life’ 18 March 2024
Ideally, she would like to do everything, but as an academic she feels most at ease. Monica den Boer, who has decades of experience within police and ...
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It doesn’t really exist, but I am one: a tropical lawyer! 18 March 2024
Alumna Janine Ubink is a Professor of Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University. She researches legal pluralism in various areas of Africa ...
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Consensual sex: easier said than done 18 March 2024
Sex without mutual consent is a criminal offence. The proposed new Dutch sexual offences law aims to better protect victims of sexually transgressive ...
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BRICS welcomes five new members to the bloc 18 March 2024
Starting 1 January 2024, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran have officially joined the BRICS trade bloc, as confirmed b...
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Renewable Energy Directive raises concerns over impact on developing countries 18 March 2024
In 2009, the European Union adopted the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), mandating Member States to obtain 10% of all transport fuels from renewable ...
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From Remindo to ANS: Faculty of Humanities implements a new assessment system 17 March 2024
The Faculty of Humanities will introduce a new assessment system in the next academic year. Marcel van Brunschot, the project leader for the digital a...
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Vacancy for Editorial Assistant – Common Market Law Review 15 March 2024
The Common Market Law Review (CML Rev.), one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in the field of European Union law, has its editorial office ...
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Numbers are not an exact representation of an objective reality 15 March 2024
Numbers seem to be a universal language. But in practice it's not so simple. Tim van de Meerendonk explores how farmers, insurance advisors and local ...
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’ 14 March 2024
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying i...
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Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science: ‘I want to show how we’re finding alternatives to animal testing’ 14 March 2024
PhD candidate Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science. In videos and blogs, she will show what life is like as a young researcher.