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Timo Kos on the cuts and elections: ‘We’re fighting for the future of our university’Interview 28 October 2025The university may seem a bit subdued in the run-up to the Dutch elections on 29 October. The media has barely mentioned education as an election issu...
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What our experts have to say about the key issues in the Dutch electionsDutch elections 28 October 2025Is your strategic vote actually strategic? How can the Netherlands form a stable government? And what should the next government do about migration, d...
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Gaming your way through a PhD: 'Studying games is not just cool, it's important'PHD RESEARCH 28 October 2025Studying video games for your PhD research. It might sound unlikely, yet it is exactly what PhD candidates Giulio Barbero and Matthias Müller-Brockhau...
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MIRD Students deepen their knowledge of EU and UN institutions in Brussels27 October 2025From 13 to 15 October, first-year students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) travelled to Brussels, the heart of the...
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Handbook on mass damage sheds light on ambiguities in collective redress law27 October 2025Dieselgate, privacy violations by TikTok, increases in energy prices: reports of mass damage lawsuits are a regular occurrence. These lawsuits raise m...
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New eye tracker for the Babylab27 October 2025The Babylab, part of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and SSH Labs infrastructure, has recently introduced a new eye tracking devic...
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Still unsure who to vote for? Here’s how to tell if your strategic vote is truly strategic27 October 2025Many people are wondering whether to vote strategically or not in the parliamentary elections on Wednesday. This raises at least three important quest...
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New issue of Common Market Law Review27 October 2025The October 2025 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 62, no. 5 is now available online.
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The Future of Children’s Rights Research: Highlights from the 11th CREAN PhD Symposium24 October 2025We are proud to look back on a truly inspiring and successful 11th CREAN Children’s Rights Research PhD Symposium, held on 16–17 October 2025 at Leide...
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Civility, not opinions, was the real surprise in student debateElection debate 24 October 2025The student debate in Leiden’s Stadsgehoorzaal promised to be ‘the key to your vote’. That may sound hyperbolic, but what this well-attended debate d...
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"in the media 23 October 2025More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from ...
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eLaw leads social science research in AI:Liner project for Europe's sewer infrastructure23 October 2025eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies has officially launched its participation in AI:Liner, a Horizon Europe project that will transform how...
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargonPhD 23 October 2025Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ a...
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Skeletons and beer at ArcheoHotspot23 October 2025How can you figure out if a skeleton is male or female? How did they brew beer in the distant past? Visitors to ArcheoHotspot could examine archaeolog...
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‘Irregular warfare is not going away, however much we’d like it to’Inaugural lecture 23 October 2025The fight against insurgents, guerrillas and resistance movements is an ‘incredibly unpopular’ topic with experts and military personnel, says Profess...