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Sarah-Devorah Poot wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019On 10 December Sarah-Devorah Poot won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2019 for her thesis on child-friendly judgments.
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Less finger-wagging, more pragmatismRather than finger-wagging, the Netherlands has opted for pragmatism when it comes to human rights. That is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok...
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Law student Aoife Fleming speaks at UN Climate Change Conference MadridAs UN Youth Delegate on Sustainable Development, Leiden student Aoife Fleming is currently in Madrid for the UN Climate Change Conference COP25.
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Moritz Jesse on Transition From Excluded Asylum Seeker To Integrated RefugeeDr. Moritz Jesse, associate professor of European Law at the Europa Institute Leiden, was sharing his thoughts on the transition from asylum seeker to...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the YearWhich brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the Year 2019? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Professor Miguel John Versluys joins Supervisory Council of National Museum of AntiquitiesFrom 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology (UL), will join...
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PhD defence: critical reflections on law and the question of the animalThis project contemplates an ethics of difference and singularity that can effectuate a displacement of anthropocentrism and radical transformation in...
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Morshed Mannan at The New School in New York CityIn November 2019, Morshed Mannan participated at a conference entitled Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism, that was hosted by The...
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Combined technique measures nanostructures ten times better than beforeResearchers at Leiden University and TU Delft have combined two techniques that are used to measure the structure of biomolecules, creating a method t...
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Rectores magnifici of the Dutch universities: a good university is international tooThe Netherlands is an open country and should remain so. This is what the rectores magnifici of the Dutch universities write in an opinion piece. Beca...
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Contempt of court does not fit into the Dutch judicial systemWhat can criminal courts do when the course of justice is obstructed? Countries such as England and Wales apply the instrument contempt of court, whic...
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Call for Abstracts - Conference Language Learning Resource Centre, Leiden University, June 5th, 2020
The Language Learning Resource Centre (Leiden University) is organizing a one-day conference (June 5th, 2020) on the interplay between second language...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young AcademyHistorian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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Children in Sierra Leone thrilled with pens from KOG cleaner LaminFor almost ten years now Lamin Sow, a cleaner working at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, has been collecting discarded pens he comes across throughout ...
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Improving therapeutic vaccinesChemist Sander van Kasteren aims to accurately map how our immune system responds to vaccines, particularly those aimed at curing diseases like cancer...