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Common Market Law Review Young Academics Prize 2023 15 January 2024
The Common Market Law Review's 2023 Prize for Young Academics has been awarded to Friso Bostoen and David van Wamel for their co-authored article: ‘Th...
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NWA Project on Vulnerability and Social Media awarded to Gianclaudio Malgieri and eLaw colleagues 15 January 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has recently awarded a significant grant of 863,000 euros to the project proposal 'RESOCIAL' led by Dr Gianclaudio Ma...
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Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain 12 January 2024
Hundreds of beautiful and timeless photos by Emmy Andriesse, one of the most important Dutch photographers of the twentieth century, are now freely ac...
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Rein Dool painting in new place in the Academy Building 12 January 2024
The painting by Rein Dool, depicting former board members of Leiden University, has been moved to the Reception Room of the Academy Building. An expla...
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Construction work starts on new accommodation for international PhDs 11 January 2024
Work began on an accommodation complex for international PhD candidates and postdocs at the Leiden Bio Science Park on 10 January. The building will b...
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at event organised by Dutch Competition Law Association 11 January 2024
On 10 January, Ben Van Rompuy spoke at the New Year's meeting of the Dutch Competition Law Association in Amsterdam.
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Education and teaching: an exciting year at the faculty 11 January 2024
There are lots of important items on the education and teaching agenda for 2024. Reaccreditation for the Law programmes including Notarial Law and Tax...
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'Working with PhD candidates gives me energy' 11 January 2024
Erik Danen is the new Dean of the Graduate School from 1 January. He is a professor at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research and conducts resea...
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Politics, Opera & Philosophy 11 January 2024
Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Th...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings 11 January 2024
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript f...
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Depressed adolescents gain little benefit from eye contact with their parents (although connection is so very important) 10 January 2024
Eye contact between parents and children improves their mood and increases feelings of connectedness on both sides; but not in the case of depressed a...
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Starting the new year together: these are the winners of faculty awards 10 January 2024
A beautiful speech by vice-dean Bart de Smit, a mini-lecture on exoplanets and the presentation of three faculty awards. That's how we started the new...
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Leiden quantum technology research very successful in funding call 10 January 2024
No less than six Leiden projects received a grant for quantum research from the national growth programme Quantum Delta NL and the NWO. After all, in ...
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Koos Biesmeijer and Claire van Megen nominated for Person of the Year 09 January 2024
Koos Biesmeijer, Professor of Natural Capital, and Claire van Megen, an Educational and Child Studies student, are in with a chance of winning Leiden’...