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Anthony Brown gives prestigious lecture series in PrincetonLeiden astronomer Anthony Brown had the honour to give the prestigious Spitzer Lectures at Princeton University. In five lectures spread over the begi...
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Van Vollenhoven Lecture by Tony Platt in ‘Leidsch Dagblad’On Thursday 9 May, Prof. Tony Platt delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Crime & Punishment’
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Financial crisis mainly affected the sale of municipal landThe effects on local government of the financial crisis that began in 2007 are still largely unknown. As a case study, Jan Porth conducted statistical...
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Grand opening of the 444 cycle routeLeiden University is 444 years old, and to celebrate 220 cyclists took to the saddle on 11 May and followed the new 44.4 km route around Leiden, The H...
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Patrick Moerland: ‘Just call me Patrick’One of the familiar faces of our faculty is receptionist Patrick Moerland (39). He has been working for the university for 17 years and is clearly pas...
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Governments overly optimistic about the use of digital innovationsThe government is digitalizing and making use of ‘big data’ in its decision making processes. But the expectations of digitalization are often overly ...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Erwin Muller presents Veterans handbook to Minister BijleveldOn Monday 9 May, Erwin Muller, Professor in Security and Law at Faculty of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden Univ...
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Bart Schuurman on the CPL Summer Programme “Preventing Violent Extremism”This August, the second edition of the Advanced Summer Programme "Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to the Violent Extremist Threat" will be held....
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Alexander Strelkov presents at the Aspen Institute conference in BerlinDr. Alexander Strelkov has been invited by the Aspen Insitute as a guest speaker for an event (8-10 May 2019) focusing on parliamentary institutions i...
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Maria Pichou selected as Judge for the International Criminal Court Moot Court CompetitionMaria Pichou is selected to act as a judge for the 2019 International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition (ICCMCC). Dr. Maria Pichou is Assistant Pr...
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New book on the Sand Motor offers research findings and reflectionHow can the Dutch Sand Motor strengthen our coasts in a natural way? And how can this knowledge and experience help prevent coastal erosion in Jamaica...
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Marieke Liem on Radio 1 BE about murderous mothersA mother who is far from the romantic ideal image of the mother as we know is the murderous mother. Genevieve Lhermitte, the mother who killed her 5 c...
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Digging deeper into Soils, Sediment and Society with Peter HoubenA group of 12 LUC students went to the Eifel mountains for the annual field trip within the course 'Soils, Sediment, and Society' of Dr. Peter Houben....
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‘Never just a murderer’In an interview with Leidraad Alumni Magazine (no. 2, 2019), Marieke Liem states that it is almost impossible to compare between murders. ‘In our soci...