From 26-30 June 2017 the first edition of the summer course on the Europeanisation of administrative law in the EU Member States took place in The Hague.

Alexandre Genest will defend his PhD dissertation ‘Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law’ as part of a double PhD programme at the Universities of Leiden and Ottawa.

The Netherlands has gained a third commentary on the Constitution – with Leiden as its home base. The first copy of Een nieuw commentaar op de Grondwet (A new commentary on the Constitution) (published by Boom Amsterdam) was presented to Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Torentje last week.

On Monday 16 March, Ewan McKendrick will give his inaugural lecture in the Academy Building at 16:00 hrs, on Commercial Contract Law: How Important is the Quest for Certainty?

Now that the government has collapsed, the Netherlands will have to vote once more. The elections will not take place before November, says the Electoral Council. The Electoral Act sets deadlines for various steps to be taken before new elections can take place. The fact that the summer recess and autumn…

On 13 February 2018, the European Law Expertise Centre (ECER) and the newly established Centre for International Law (CIR) jointly organised a Brexit conference on the practical implications of international and European law of the Brexit for the interpretation and application of the law in practice…

On 4 November 2022, the Conference ‘Modernisering Wetboek van Strafvordering’ was held at the KOG. The conference was organised by JPAO and the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The June 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 3 is now available online.

The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 2 is now available online.

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

The October issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 5 is now available online.

The December 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 6 is now available online.

The August 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 4 is now available online.

The December 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 6 is now available online.

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

The December issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 6 is now available online.

The October 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 5 is now available online.

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

The October 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 5 is now available online.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The April 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 2 is now available online.

The June 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 3 is now available online.

The February 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 1 is now available online.

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

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

The August 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 4 is now available online.

The October 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 5 is now available online.

The August 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 4 is now available online.

On Wednesday 6 September 2017 the Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL/SEDI) hosted a workshop in Naples, Italy, in cooperation with the ILS 2.0 Project.

On 12 September 2019, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a lecture on Customary International Criminal Law and Head of State Immunity to open the academic year for the Advanced LL.M. Programmes in Public International Law & International Dispute Settlement…

This is the Board of Advisors of CompaRe.

This collection, edited by Sophie Vériter, Monica Kaminska, Dennis Broeders and Joachim Koops, includes six papers exploring and investigating European responses to COVID-related disinformation, specifically the responses of France, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Serbia, and Hungary.

On 1 February 2017 there was a hearing in the committee on European affairs of the second chamber of the Dutch Parliament on the issue of

These might be ‘just’ provincial council elections in the Netherlands, but the outcome on 15 March could have serious consequences for how the country is governed. Conflicts between the government in The Hague and the provinces, and tension within the Dutch cabinet, might be looming. On 1 July, every…

This year’s regional finals of the European Law Moot Court (ELMC) competition took place online. The 32 teams that qualified from the written rounds competed in two regional finals: the Schuman regional final on 17-20 March 2021 and the Adenauer regional final on 24-27 March 2021.

The Leiden University Green Office is pleased to announce the details of its Spring Event, which will consist of a poetry reading and a clotheswap!

LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course. Each year the journal has a new editorial board and a new theme. Series editors Astrid van Weyenberg and Nanne Timmer guide this process and are assisted…

On 17 and 18 November 2016 the World Bank in Washington, D.C. hosted the Fourth International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform.

On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritage in space.

Find out how to apply for Air and Space Law programme at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.

The law and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications need to be better aligned to ensure our personal data and privacy are protected. PhD candidate Andreas Häuselmann can see opportunities with AI, but dangers if this does not happen.

On 25 October 2017, Ledi Bianku, judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a guest lecture entitled “The ECHR and asylum”. Ledi Bianku is Judge at the European Court of Human Rights since 1 February 2008. He has held the position of Vice-President of Section I of the Court from January 2016…

Teaching reading comprehension in secondary education