News
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Oncode Accelerator funds preclinical development of cancer therapies 23 October 2024
Through its Demonstrator Projects, the Dutch Oncode Accelerator consortium provides grants for preclinical cancer therapy development. The first call ...
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ICC President visits Leiden University: ‘We must work together to fight crime’ 23 October 2024
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny when it comes to prosecuting international crimes. This due to increasing conflicts w...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Farewell lecture by Guus Heerma van Voss: ‘Labour rights have fallen from grace’ 22 October 2024
Guus Heerma van Voss, professor emeritus of labour law, delivered his farewell lecture on 18 October and held a mirror up to his colleagues and himsel...
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These colleagues keep you safe: ‘Being an emergency responder is useful outside of work too’ 22 October 2024
Do you know what to do if a rubbish bin catches fire, a student takes ill or a colleague falls off their bike? Our emergency responders do. They are r...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024
‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024
Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future 18 October 2024
Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurit...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri in panel on AI, Discrimination, and Vulnerability at Sciences Po Law Event in Paris 18 October 2024
Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at Leiden University, will participate in a key panel discussion at Sciences Po Law S...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri co-chairs the 8th Brussels Privacy Symposium 18 October 2024
The 8th edition of the Brussels Privacy Symposium, co-organised in Brussels by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Brussels Privacy Hub on 7 October 2...
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Kick off meeting RESOCIAL project 18 October 2024
On 20 September 2024, Leiden University colleagues Associate Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri (Main Applicant), Assistant Professor Michael Klos (Co-App...
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The future is queer and technological. Also human. 18 October 2024
The history of the LGTBI+ collective, deeply marked by episodes of violence, repression, and discrimination, is also the history of the struggle for s...
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Surrogacy processes identified by Leiden University 17 October 2024
How many children are born with the help of a surrogate mother in the Netherlands, and which legal obstacles can arise? Through a new interdisciplinar...
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Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy 17 October 2024
Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...