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Two members of Grotius Centre join Board of NATO Support and Procurement Agency18 September 2025Brian McGarry and Cecily Rose, both affiliated with the Grotius Centre, are members of an adjudicative body established under the auspices of the NATO...
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Maartje van der Woude appointed as Series Editor for prestigious Routledge book series27 May 2025Professor Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law & Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, has been appointed as one of the three new series editor...
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Criminal law needs to change: ‘Harsher punishments and short prison sentences don’t work’Inaugural lecture Patrick van der Meij 20 February 2025Many problems in criminal law can be predicted by the academic world and using knowledge from criminal law practice, says criminal lawyer Professor Pa...
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Looking further than punishment and retribution for young offenders02 December 2024Youth crime has plummeted in the Netherlands. Good news, you might think. Yet we need to look critically at existing sanctions, says Professor by Spec...
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Authors' workshop: Research Handbook on Victims' Rights under International Law25 November 2024From 29 to 30 October 2024, the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum (KGF) and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies had the pleasure of hosting an in...
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Grotius-Asser Event with Dr Letizia Lo Giacco (Grotius Centre), Judge Hilary Charlesworth (ICJ) and Kiki Brölmann (UvA)29 September 2024On 19 September 2024, Dr Letizia Lo Giacco gave a lecture on "Seeking change through international courts: Rethinking what judicial decisions do in in...
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Interdisciplinary book symposium: ‘Confronting Colonial Objects’24 April 2024OpinioJuris, one of the world’s leading international law blogs, has hosted an interdisciplinary online symposium on Professor Carsten Stahn’s new boo...
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Lawyers' risks: crown witness cases and extra secure communication tools11 April 2024How can we guarantee the safety of the crown witness scheme for both crown witnesses and lawyers? How can we ensure that online conversations between ...
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Consensual sex: easier said than done18 March 2024Sex 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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Patrick van der Meij appointed Professor of Criminal Law Practice31 January 2024Patrick van der Meij has been appointed Professor of Criminal Law Practice at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology from 1 January 2024. This ...
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Guilt and sentencing in the Netherlands: the impact of mental health reports07 November 2023In one in four criminal cases in the Netherlands, the court receives a report on the state of the defendant’s mental health. How is that information u...
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Leiden University wins five prizes at the IBA ICC Moot Court Competition04 July 2023Leiden University won five prizes at the 10th edition of the IBA International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court Competition – English edition of 2023, ...
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Carsten Stahn in Best Scientists ranking for 202325 May 2023Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2023 Edition of Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Law. Carst...
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Leiden receives honourable mention for best Memorandum for Respondent at 30th Vis Moot in Vienna01 May 2023A team from Leiden University Law School participated at the 30th edition of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court competi...
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Suspects in Mallorca case hear sentence demands18 November 2022The nine suspects from Hilversum accused of beating Carlo Heuvelman so badly on the night of 14 July last year that he later died will hear their sent...