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The 1st Indonesian-Australian-Netherlands Socio-Legal Studies Conference08 August 2017
The international conference “Legal Reform in Indonesia: towards Justice” will be held on 6-7 September 2017 at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, In...
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Report conference ‘EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice’, 26 – 27 June 201703 August 2017Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Research Assistant at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, has written a report on this conference
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Seeking justice for Syria18 July 2017Islamic State may be losing ground rapidly, but Syrian President Assad's position is gaining strength. His torture chambers and the battlefield are s...
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Jasmina Mačkić presents at the colloquium ‘Minorities and the Criminal Justice System’29 June 2017During the colloquium ‘Minorities and the Criminal Justice System’, Jasmina Mačkić (lecturer at the Europa Institute) presented some of the research r...
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Discretion and decision making seminar09 May 2017On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on d...
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Adv. LL.M. Students meet ICC Judges12 April 2017Adv. LL.M. Students visit the International Criminal Court
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Pitfalls of discretionary conduct12 December 2016Judicial officers have some leeway in how they act. In most cases that's fine, but it can also lead to abuses, such as ethnic profiling. It is easy to...
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Truth-finding in courts under threat from propduction pressure01 November 2016
As a result of production pressure, judicial powers focus more on efficiency and less on making sure they get to the truth. Professor of Criminology J...
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Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Conference 'EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - Reflections and Prospects'27 October 2016This interdisciplinary conference, to be held on 26-27 June 2017, will bring together lawyers interested in EU law and criminal law, criminologists, p...
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Use of virtual girl 'Sweetie' to fight child abuse problematic in the Netherlands19 October 2016The use of virtual girl Sweetie, used by the police to investigate pedofiles, is problematic in the Netherlands. Researchers of Leiden University and ...
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Jannemieke Ouwerkerk appointed Full Professor of European Criminal Law23 June 2016As from 1 August 2016 Jannemieke Ouwerkerk will be appointed to the position of Full Professor of European Criminal Law at the Institute for Criminal ...
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Mr. Volker Türk delivers the Keynote Address at the Advanced Course on International Criminal Law02 June 2016On Monday 30 May 2016, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, Mr. Volker Türk, delivered the Keynote Address at the Advanced Course ...
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What really is happening in the Dutch borderlands26 April 2016As a result of the refugee crisis and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (RNM) is stepping up immigration...
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Prof. Stahn on IBA Panel on Legal Challenges of Modern Warfare03 February 2016
On Sunday 31 January 2016, Prof. Carsten Stahn spoke at the IBA Annual Conference on International Criminal Law.
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Successful Book Launch and Dissent Event at the Grotius Centre14 December 2015
On 11 December 2015, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies organized a seminar on "The Role of Dissent in International Law" in The Hague.