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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Hans Franken Lecture by Aleid Wolfsen, Chairman Dutch DPA
On 20 May 2022, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University organised the Hans Franken lecture for the third time. This year the lecture was delivered by Aleid Wolfsen, chairman of the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Data Protection Authority (DPA)), the privacy watchdog of the…
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum
Conference, Book launch
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'Reception of refugees in the region only possible with support from Europe'
The objective of many European countries is to provide reception facilities for refugees in their own region. Here in the Netherlands a new coalition agreement is in the making and Professor Jorrit Rijpma reflects on his own research to give advice and tips.
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Europa Lecture
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Hanna Bosdriesz awarded doctorate cum laude
On 3 December 2019 Hanna Bosdriesz defended her dissertation on the fight against impunity for grave human rights violations in Latin America.
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Success for Leiser and Yang at BILETA
Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor at eLaw, and Wen-Ting Yang, former Law And Digital technologies student, won the Best Paper award at BILETA, the United Kingdom’s largest tech and legal education conference.
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Jorrit Rijpma presents study on Smart Borders in the LIBE Committee
On Tuesday 27 September, Jorrit Rijpma and Julien Jeandesboz (ULB) presented the preliminary findings of their study on the Commission’s smart borders proposal in the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament.
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Inspiration sessions Empirics and legal education
Inspiratiesessies
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Migration research at Leiden University and GMD
Conference
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The person behind the truck driver
Most people talk about truck drivers rather than to them. That’s an error of judgement, says PhD candidate Anke van der Hoeven, who explains why we should be making their lives easier. ‘People just don’t realise it, but they’re an invisible group that keeps the European economy running.’
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Angels for sale: retrieving looted cultural property
The illicit trade in stolen cultural property is booming. Countless works of art and antiquities will be lost if we don’t do more to stop this. This is what experts warned at a Leiden Global congress at the National Museum of Antiquities.
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De schaduwzijde van erfgoedbescherming
World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.
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#COVID under19: Children’s rights during the coronavirus pandemic
Children and young people feel the government is not listening to them during the coronavirus pandemic and this is a cause for concern in light of international children’s rights. This is the conclusion of a recent report by a research team from Leiden University on how children and youngsters have…
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Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Conference
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ILS Bookpresentation by Prof. Vassilis Hatzopoulos
The March ILS lunch seminar will take on a slightly different format, as we have the honour of receiving Prof. Vassilis Hatzopoulos who will present his new book on the Collaborative Economy and EU Law.
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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eLaw researchers present at MIT
Andreas Häuselmann and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies wrote an article on the legal and regulatory aspects of emotion data and presented it to the Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction (ACII ‘23) Conference held at MIT. Andreas Häuselmann also hosted…
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Fall of Misinformation Series: Mark Leiser
Misinformation spreads easily and fast. It gets presented as news, whereas actual news gets dismissed as fake. Conflicting streams of information allows all sides to cherry-pick whatever is most comfortable, boosting degrees of confidence and confusing the deliberation of both politicians and voters.…
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eLaw awarded EDPB framework contract for research into implications of GDPR
Dr. Karolina La Fors, post-doc researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, together with a consortium consisting of Milieu Consulting (leader of the consortium), the Free University of Amsterdam (CLI-Centre for Law and Internet), the University of Leuven (Centre…
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Symposium on technology and privacy should offer new insights
Video conferencing from your sitting room and algorithms on social media that know your interests: new technology is an increasingly integral part of our lives. At the same time there is a growing call to protect our privacy, and this is causing friction, at the University too. In part because of the…
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Onzekerheid beïnvloed - de rol van emoties tijdens conflicten en strafbepaling
Lecture
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Gianclaudio Malgieri to give keynote speech on fundamental rights and vulnerability at Maastricht University
Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw and Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, will deliver a keynote speech at Maastricht University. This keynote is a part of the Maastricht Experience Week focusing on 'The future of privacy, cybersecurity and data management'.…
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eLaw panel on Art and Algorithmic Accountability at CPDP 2021
In January 2021, eLaw joined the Computers Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference that is about privacy and data protection. The group on Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University put together a panel that combined perspectives on Art, Society, & Technology.
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Consortium building corona test application providing maximum privacy
A consortium called 'uNLock' has started developing an open source, non-profit application that will facilitate the verification of corona tests while ensuring maximum security of users.
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Simone van der Hof on GDPR, children and marketing at CPDP 2018
During the 11th International Congress Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) in Brussels, Simone van der Hof gave a presentation on the General Data Protection Regulation during the panel 'GROWING UP WITH ADVERTISING IN A DIGITAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT: DATA PROTECTION SAFEGUARDS IN DISGUISE' marketing…
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Inaugural lecture Wannes Vandenbussche accepting TPR rotating professorship
On 24 May 2023, Professor Wannes VandenBussche of Ghent University delivered his inaugural lecture to accept the TPR rotating professorship in the Leiden Academy Building. The title of his inaugural lecture was: ‘De EU-dimensie van het burgerlijk bewijsrecht: een mozaïek van opportuniteiten en valkuilen’…
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Staff
The Cyber Security lecturers are scholars and lecturers of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
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eLaw at CPDP2019
The twelfth annual conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2019) took place in Brussels from Jan. 30 until Feb. 1, 2019. Leiden Law School’s Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) was represented in two different panels at the conference this year.
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A flash interview with a foreign alumna: Selina about hagelslag and what inspires her at working for a large firm
German alumna Selina Holstein tells us all about the Dutch broodjes & hagelslag, the team diversity and variety in work while working for a large firm and the importance of the Noordwijkse beach.
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SAILS Newsletter June 2021
Dear reader, Right now you are reading the very first SAILS newsletter. In this newsletter, you will find news, events and meet the researchers of the SAILS program. If you want to be updated about our events and receive the newsletter in the future, join the SAILS mailinglist! If you know anyone…
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Hall of Fame 2020
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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RESOCIAL
RESOCIAL (“User vulnerabilities and Resilience on SOCIAL media platforms and the metaverse: a sociolegal and design perspective”, an NWO-NWA Synergy Grant Project) seeks to identify, measure, and thereby mitigate human vulnerabilities on social media platforms (including the metaverse and immersive…
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De bescherming van persoonsgegevens, Acht Europese landen vergeleken
The Netherlands generally performs above average in the protection of personal data, according to research carried out at Leiden University. Germany is the leading country, while countries such as Italy and Romania are lagging behind.
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Technology and privacy: trust or mistrust?
Conference
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AI programmes that use your voice to produce songs breach portrait rights
AI programmes such as Suno and Udio allow the user to compose songs that bear an uncanny resemblance to the style and vocals of famous artists. Can artists do anything about this?
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eLaw and EuDEco’s panel at the CPDP 2017
The Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) is an annual world-leading multidisciplinary conference that takes place in January in Brussels. In January 2017, eLaw, the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University, participated in the CPDP conference as one of the…
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Report presented at expert workshop on EU's proposed regulation on preventing and combatting child sexual abuse
Workshop brings multidisciplinary experts together to produce interdisciplinary outcomes on the EU’s Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.
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Last ILS Lunch Seminar of 2019 with Cecily Rose and Eduard Fosch Villaronga
The monthly ILS Lunch seminars bring together colleagues and students from Leiden Law School, providing an informal setting to hear what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. On Thursday 12 December 2019, the final ILS Lunch Seminar of this year takes place. This month,…
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NWA Project on Vulnerability and Social Media awarded to Gianclaudio Malgieri and eLaw colleagues
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has recently awarded a significant grant of 863,000 euros to the project proposal 'RESOCIAL' led by Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies. This grant is part of the 'NWA Synergy Theme: Vulnerability and Resilience…
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Eight Meijers prizes awarded
On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers prizes were awarded for the best published article, of each faculty research programme, written by Assistant Professors or other academic staff members. The winners received a certificate and a sum of money to spend on research.
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Jojanneke van der Toorn organises international Workpride conference
Professor Jojanneke van der Toorn has held the chair in LGBT workplace inclusion for five years. To celebrate, organised an international online conference on workplace inclusion, in cooperation with Workplace Pride that was hosted by the university on 20 and 21 May.
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Hadassah Drukarch receives prestigious 2023 Brinkhof Internet Thesis Award
We are proud to share that Hadassah Drukarch, a graduate of our Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies (class of 2022-2023), has been honored with the prestigious 2023 Brinkhof Internet Thesis Award for her thesis research that explores the intricate interplay between data protection regulation…