News
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Walter Burkard wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 13 December 2020
On 10 December Walter Burkard won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 for his thesis on climate change and children’s rights.
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga becomes Assistant Professor at eLaw 10 December 2020
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has promoted Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga to Assistant Professor to work on Law and Artificial Intellig...
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Introducing Steven Hill, our new Associate Senior Policy Fellow 10 December 2020
Steven Hill will be appointed as Associate Senior Policy Fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) for a period of two years.
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The real value of the telescope-on-a-plane 10 December 2020
Cornelia Pabst is a PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory, whose research is based around primary data taken by instruments onboard SOFIA, an airplane-b...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare 10 December 2020
By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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‘Connect to at least one other person’ 10 December 2020
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Mirjam Sombroek–van Doorm appointed Associate Professor Health Law 10 December 2020
In addition to being Director of Operational Management at Leiden Law School, Mirjam Sombroek–van Doorm will help develop Health Law at the faculty in...
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Death of Menno Tuurenhout 09 December 2020
It was with deep sorrow that we learned of the sudden death of our dear colleague Menno Tuurenhout on 7 December 2020.
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New Podcast Asks Guests to Reimagine Education 08 December 2020
The Centre for Innovation has launched a new podcast series called What if Education… In each episode, the host Monika Theron invites students, teache...
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Hall of fame 2020: Students and staff in the spotlight 08 December 2020
Throughout this past year many students and staff at Leiden Law School received a prize or grant, were shortlisted for a prize or appointed to an acad...
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn composes sonic ethnography in Japan 04 December 2020
Andrew Littlejohn composed a sonic ethnography with sounds recorded in Japan’s northeastern region. He decided to make recordings because he wasn’t sa...
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020) 26 November 2020
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansve...
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Marnix van der Gun: ‘I gave it my all’ 23 November 2020
Marnix van der Gun (42) has lived in The Hague all his life. He started his career as a professional football player and, after an injury, opted for a...
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Bert Meijer reappointed to the Board of Governors 19 November 2020
Professor Bert Meijer has been reappointed as a member of Leiden University’s Board of Governors by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, In...
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KNAW Early Career Award for ecologist Michiel Veldhuis 17 November 2020
Curiosity is the driving force behind the research of ecologist Michiel Veldhuis. The associate professor investigates ecosystems in relation to clima...