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Amber Lauwers
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.r.lauwers@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Andrei Poama
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.poama@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9065
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Sofia de Jong
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.w.m.de.jong@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Miranda Boone
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.m.boone@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4907
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Bastiaan Rijpkema
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.r.rijpkema@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7229
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Hans-Martien ten Napel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.m.t.d.tennapel@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7710
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Willemijn Aerdts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
w.j.m.aerdts@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.h.starrenburg@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maria-Lucia Rebrean
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.l.rebrean@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Little support for dispersal law in municipality of Westland
The ‘spreidingswet’ (dispersal law) has been passed by Dutch Senate and will take effect on 1 February. In the municipality of Westland, however, a majority in the council is unwilling to create 700 extra reception places.
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New volume on ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’
At the start of 2020, the book ‘Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law’ was published by Intersentia.
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Law firms play dubious role in Indonesian land disputes
Law firms play a dubious role in important land disputes in Indonesia. They act as fixers and settle conflicts to the advantage of large companies. PhD candidate Santy Kouwagam studied their modus operandi. PhD defence on 23 June.
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Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court, Glasgow 2016
Leiden team runner-up in the European Regional Round at the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court 2016!
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ELI Conference on Business Rescue in Insolvency Law
On 19 and 20 March, the reporters of the ELI Project on Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law, Prof. Bob Wessels, Prof. Stephan Madaus and As. Prof. Kristin van Zwieten, will chair a conference to present the preliminary results of the project. The event will take place on the top floor (Dachgeschoss)…
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Specialist in strategic litigation lectures at Leiden Law School
On 6 March, Jelle Klaas, lawyer for the Public Interest Litigation Project of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists, delivered a lecture to the students of the Advanced Master’s in European and International Human Rights Law at Leiden Law School.
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The Department of Child Law welcomed delegation from Tunisia
On Thursday 17 November 2016 a delegation from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Social affairs and UNICEF Tunisia paid a visit to Leiden Law School, organised by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory.
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Peter Rodrigues on the position of children in immigration law
Children have never acquired their own position in migration law and that is now slowly changing, according to Peter Rodrigues in ‘One World’. Partly as a result of the Children’s Rights Convention and judgments by the Court of Justice in Luxemburg, the tide seems to be turning and there is now more…
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Leiden Law School hosts PhD Training for human rights researchers
The annual PhD training of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) took place on 7 and 8 June at Leiden University.
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Leiden Law School #24 in QS ranking 2016
This year, Leiden Law School ranks #24 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the faculty ranks as the best in the Netherlands for the subject Law.
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Jus Post Bellum
Jus post bellum, the body of laws and norms governing the transition from armed conflict to peace, has emerged as a crucial issue for international law scholars, governments, and all concerned with building a just and sustainable peace. The Jus Post Bellum Project, funded by the NWO and hosted by the…
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The golden braid of AI and (company) law: JURIX 2018
Between 12 to 14 December 2018, the University of Groningen hosted JURIX 2018 – The 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. A number of us at the Company Law department (Iris Wuisman, Thy Pham, Morshed Mannan and Sjoerd Yntema) attended the conference to learn about…
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CERIL Lustrum Conference on Harmonisation of EU Insolvency Law
To celebrate its 5th anniversary as an independent non-profit think tank, the Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL) held its first lustrum with a conference on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 April 2023. The conference discussed the European Commission’s long-expected legislative…
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Wim Deetman Scholarships for two master Public International Law students
On 27 October 2015, four talented international students from Leiden University/Campus The Hague and the International Institute of Social Studies received the Wim Deetman Scholarships 2015-2016.
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Bart Custers presents at law and AI research in Tokyo
On 22 December 2018, Dr. Bart Custers, Associate Professor and Head of Research at eLaw, Center for Law and Digital technologies, presented research results of the e-SIDES project at the Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2018) in Tokyo, Japan. His presentation dealt with…
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How can we connect data science and law?
At the Hague University of Applied Sciences, a stakeholder meeting took place on 4 April in the context of peace and justice in a digital world. The meeting was an initiative of Leiden University (LCDS, eLaw) and the Hague University of Applied Sciences, to explore joint curriculum development in the…
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Leiden researchers contribute to the reform of French liability law
Researchers from Leiden University, KU Leuven and Paris II compared the French legislative proposal with the Dutch Civil Code. They published their findings in the Revue internationale de droit comparé (RIDC). Some recommendations have been adopted by Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the Minister of Justice.
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World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights 2017 in Dublin
A delegation of the Child Law Department has attended the World congress on family law and children’s rights in Dublin, from 4-7 June. This congress organised once in every four years was hosted by prof. Ursula Kilkelly (University College Cork). Over 600 people attended the congress; professionals…
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Law graduate Irina Ghazarian convinces international insurer to change tack
After her law degree, Irina Ghazarian (28) started working at Zurich Insurance PLC, an international insurance company. ‘Why do we outsource cases that are going to court?’ she asked. She is now the first attorney to work there.
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Five project grants awarded to Leiden Law School researchers
Each year the LUF Committee for Academic Expenditure awards grants to research and education projects. These grants for academic talent are often an important step towards grants from NWO and other institutions.
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Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude
On Friday 24 March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) will deliver the monthly Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture.
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Towards audio-visual reports in criminal law cases?
Professor of Criminal Law Marc Kessler proposes starting an experiment in criminal law cases: replacing parts of police interview reports with an audio-visual recording. His inaugural lecture is on 28 October 2016.
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Effect, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights/General Principles of EU Law and the Effect of Directives
Following the Mangold and Kücükdeveci case law of the CJEU, the horizontal direct effect of EU general principles and of provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights became a hotly debated issue.
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‘Visual art has been a form of communication since its inception’
Visual art played an important role in the development of cooperative human behaviour. This is the finding of Larissa Mendoza Straffon, a PhD candidate in archaeology, whose dissertation explores the biological and psychological foundations of visual art.
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‘Since coming to Leiden, I’ve never worried that something might be too difficult to do’
The Italian physicist Andrea Morello is one of the pioneers of the quantum revolution. He is currently doing research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, but cherishes his time as a PhD candidate in Leiden.
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Researcher/PhD position: Social Life of Medieval Canon Law (RU)
The Radboud Institute for Culture and History is looking for a researcher/PhD candidate in the project 'The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts'. Deadline for applications: July 6.
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Research Handbook on Cross-Border Bank Resolution
This week has seen the publication of the Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution.
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delivers inaugural lecture: “The EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI): lawful international countermeasures or violation of the WTO regime?”
Following her appointment to the Chair in EU External Economic Law earlier this year, Prof. dr. Freya Baetens addressed the academic community of Leiden University with her inaugural lecture on 27 October 2023. In a highly topical lecture, Prof. Baetens examined the EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (AC…
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Responsibility, Climate Change and Human Rights under International Law’
About the book
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Cumulative index Common Market Law Review volumes 1-57 now available
The cumulative index contains a list of all the editorials, articles, case notes published in each volume by subject ever since publication started in 1963.
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Century-old electrochemistry law gets update
The Gouy-Chapman theory describes what happens near an electrode when it is in contact with a salt solution, but this description does not match reality. Researcher Kasinath Ojha, assistant professor Katharina Doblhoff-Dier and professor Marc Koper present a new version. ‘The next generation of textbooks…
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VOC and WIC were not above the law
The powerful Dutch East India Company and West India Company were summoned before the High Court more often than historians have assumed. The complainants varied from competitors, to the Companies' own staff and even poor citizens. This is what Leiden historian Kate Ekama has discovered. PhD defence…
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presents paper during 24th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium at J. Reuben Clark Law School
From October 1-3, 2017, the 24th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium was held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA. The Symposium was attended by 100 participants, from 50 different countries, while interpretation at the venue was available in 11 languages (Arabic, French, Italian,…
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LAPP publishes on Leiden Law Blog about plastic bottles
LAPP students Emily den Boer and Louise Floris, together with Esther Kentin, wrote about the proposal for a plastic bottle deposit return system that has been discussed in the Dutch Parliament in April 2019.
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Leiden University won prize for Best Written Memorials at the European Law Moot Court
The Europa Institute is proud to announce that Leiden University has won the prize for Best Written Memorials at the 2014/15 European Law Moot Court Competition (ELMC) Final in Luxembourg!
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Access to Justice in Libya (A2JiL)
This 48-month project is to contribute to a solid, accessible, domestically owned knowledge base for people-centred interventions aimed at strengthening access to justice in Libya (A2JiL), and to disseminate such knowledge among stakeholders, enhancing awareness and the capabilities required to provide…
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Adriaan Bedner appointed as KITLV professor of Law and Society in Indonesia
As from 1 February Adriaan Bedner is the new KITLV professor (bij special appointment) of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI), Leiden University.
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Scarcity and the State
Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and…
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Eleventh Europa Lecture: Tamara Ćapeta on the role of Advocates General
On 8 June, the Europa Institute’s annual Europa Lecture took place at the Telders Auditorium of the Academy Building. Honorary speaker was Tamara Ćapeta, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Her lecture explored the role of Advocates General at the Court of Justice in its…
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Sharp rise in purchasing power since 1977, inequality stable in recent years
In the period 1977–2020, the purchasing power of the Dutch population increased by 58 percent. The sharpest rise occurred from 1999–2009 (22 percent). This is the outcome of research conducted by Leiden University and Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
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professor Nico Schrijver at UN celebration of 70 Years International Law Commission
Professor Nico Schrijver is professor of public international law at Leiden University and currently the president of the Institut de Droit international /International Law Institute, the most prestigious international law institute which was established in 1873 and which for the quality of its work…