Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction in carbon storage worldwide. These are the findings of an international team of scientists, also from the Leiden University Institute of Environmental…

The effects on local government of the financial crisis that began in 2007 are still largely unknown. As a case study, Jan Porth conducted statistical analyses of the implications for Dutch municipal finances. The crisis became most apparent in the sale of municipal land to private companies and households.…

On May 25th, Prof. Damian Pargas will hold his inaugural lecture

The faculty has been investigating hundreds of ancient stone tombs in Jordan’s Black Desert.

The level of congruence between parties and their voters can vary greatly from one policy issue to another, which raises questions regarding the effectiveness of political representation. We seek to explain variation in party–voter congruence across issues and parties.

This is a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal 'Social Sciences and Missions', which provides a forum for exploration of the social and political influence of Christian missions worldwide.

For the next six months the Van Vollenhoven Institute of Leiden University, together with The Asia Foundation (TAF), will develop a tool for evidence-based land policy in Timor-Leste.

Which key factors contribute to effective land justice pathways for the protection of people’s land rights and prevention of conflict?

Land van Ons, a cooperation that buys agricultural land for the restoration of biodiversity and landscape, and Leiden University join forces. Together, they will investigate over a longer period of time which agricultural management leads to the best restoration of biodiversity. The research will start…

The world’s prosperity and well-being are seriously being threatened by the degradation of land and nature. Although there are opportunities to turn things around, fears of further deterioration in the coming decades must not be taken lightly. That is concluded at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…

On Thursday 9 December, Dr Upik Djalins presented an online lecture, entitled 'The Colonial Bureaucratic Network versus the Metropole: The Origin Story of Land Alienation Prohibition in the 1870s East Indies'.

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A collection of newly written chapters by various specialists from different disciplines (with a background in philosophy) on the subject of free will as it is discussed in their (inter)disciplinary field.

What is the state of access to justice in real property grievances in today’s Libya, and how should it be improved?

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) was due to open its doors to the small photography exhibit Frank Scholten: Archaeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Land’ in April. Since the organisers, Leiden University and the RMO, have had to temporarily close, researchers Karène Sanchez and Sary Zananiri would like…

Rutsel Martha, former Minister of Justice of the Dutch Antilles, former General Counsel of Interpol and alumnus of Universiteit Leiden, elaborated on the position of states and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in international financial law.

How do poor and disadvantaged Indonesians address the injustices they face in daily life and how can their situation be improved?

Can international organisations be held responsible for violations of international law by peacekeepers in a peacekeeping operation?

To what extend can coercive diplomacy coerce a State to abandon its controversial nuclear program? Out of three case studies, namely Iran, Libya and South Africa, Jean Yves Ndzana’s PhD research project aims at studying the conducive conditions of coercive diplomacy.

On 1 February 2015 the third issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Absence, Anxiety, and Aesthetics', was published.

On 1 February 2014 the second issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Ritual, Representation and Remembrance', was published.

On 1 February 2016 the fourth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression', was published.

On 27 January 2017 the fifth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Breaking the Rules: Artistic Expressions of Transgression', was published.

Dr Suliman Ibrahim of the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) will conduct research on problems concerning real property in Libya. The project is commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The Common Market Law Review is proud to present a Special Issue on legal issues relating to Brexit following the lustrum conference on Brexit and the Future of the European Union that was held in Leiden in 2017 to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Europa Institute of Leiden University.

This project focuses on Dutch registration of land and people in rural Sri Lanka. How did the practice of “fixating” the fluid social relations and dynamic daily practices into categories affect family strategies of reproduction and survival?

The June 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 3 is now available online.

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The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 2, is now available online.

The December 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 6 is now available online.

The January issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 1, is now available online.

The February 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 1 is now available online.

The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 2 is now available online.

The February issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 1 is now available online.

The February 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 1 is now available online.

The April 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 2 is now available online.

The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 3 is now available online.

The June 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 3 is now available online.

The August 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 4 is now available online.

The August issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 4 is now available online.

The February issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 1 is now available online.

The February 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 1 is now available online.

The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 3, is now available online.