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Sunny message during rainy Faculty Year Opening08 September 2025It was pouring with rain during the Opening of the Faculty Year, but in the Oranjerie, Dean Henk te Velde had a positive message for those present: th...
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Faculty Teaching Prize for Mike Schmidli08 September 2025Assistant Professor Mike Schmidli has won the 2025 Faculty Teaching Prize. The Education Committee praised his commitment not only to teaching student...
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New education fund launched at 10-year anniversary of International Children’s RightsAnniversary celebration 08 September 2025On 29 August 2025, the Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights programme celebrated its 10th anniversary with alumni, partners, and friend...
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?08 September 2025On 15 May 2025, a roundtable '80 Years of Peace in Europe?' was convened with students and staff at Leiden University to reflect on the anniversary of...
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‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’08 September 2025In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she ...
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Graduation Ceremony of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights 2024–202505 September 2025On 28 August 2025, Leiden Law School was filled with joy, reflection, and celebration as the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights...
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Leiden archaeologists play a role in repatriating Central and South American heritage05 September 2025On 3 September 2025, more than 30 archaeological objects were returned to Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. The objects come from a private collection belo...
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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’Chronic pain 05 September 2025Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by ...
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Participatory governance: new publication by Malgieri & Kaminski in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology04 September 2025Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies) and Professor Margot E. Kaminski (University of Colorado Law...
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Executive Board adopts committee’s recommendations on Israel-Palestine04 September 2025The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and...
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New publication - Desire in Code: Legal Perspectives on Sex Robots and Consent04 September 2025Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has published a new article, Desire in Code: Legal Perspe...
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New book by Timo Slootweg, Tragedy in Ethics and Law: Other Voices of Dionysus04 September 2025In a world where law and morality strive for clarity, order, and control, this book challenges us to confront what has long been forgotten: the tragic...
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Two Leiden teams granted precious research time on ALMA telescopeastronomy 04 September 2025Leiden Observatory has achieved a rare feat: two of its research teams have been awarded prestigious ALMA Large Programmes, allowing them to study how...
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa ProfessorCleveringa Lecture 04 September 2025The French political theorist Hélène Landemore, known for her critical perspective on modern democracies, has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Pro...
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Leiden University to study the rise and persistence of income inequalityResearch project 04 September 2025Income inequality in the Netherlands is an upward trend. Leiden University will examine the causes behind this increasing inequality and why income in...