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Patient to plastic surgeon: ‘I want to look like my selfie.’ 28 August 2023
An image has great powers of persuasion. It is said that ‘a picture is worth more than a thousand words’. But these days, images can easily be manipul...
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Veni grant for Nikki Ikani and Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida 03 August 2023
Nikki Ikani, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) and Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida, Assistant Professor at the Le...
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New website for law in Libya: ‘A bridge between different scholars and audiences’ 10 July 2023
Making justice accessible to all residents in Libya. This week, a new website is launched which should contribute to this. Leiden University and the U...
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Fighting together at Leiden University against diversity bias in AI for the labour market 07 July 2023
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, hosted the first Horizon Europe BIAS Project co-creational workshop geared toward...
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Fusing electrical stimulation, wearable robots & humans to restore and enhance mobility 07 July 2023
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed to 'Cyber–Physical–Human Systems', a book exploring the latest developments in inter...
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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, ...