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Inquiry and International Law
How do commissions of inquiry operating in conflict situations utilize international law, and how can inquiry findings be utilized by other bodies belonging to the international legal community?
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Master student Matteo Consonni wins European Youth Award!
The European Youth Award (EYA) is a leading pan-European competition honoring excellence in the use of internet and mobile applications for social empowerment.
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Leiden University admitted as member European Banking Institute
On 3 May 2016 Leiden University was admitted as Academic Member and Founding Member of the European Banking Institute (EBI).
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Just published: European Banking and Financial Law (Second Edition)
Authors: Matthias Haentjens, Pierre de Gioia Carabellese
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7th European Congress of Medieval Studies (FIDEM), 6-9 September
The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland on 6-9 September 2023. Deadline for registration: 15 July.
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WHO KNOWS theme of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Leiden will be scientific capital of Europe in 2022. The theme of the festivities was announce on 28 October: Who Knows. After all, does anyone have a monopoloy on wisdom these days? Who decides what is true? And does anyone actually know what the future holds?
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CML Rev on tour in Berlin
On 16 June 2017, the 3rd CML Rev on tour took place in Berlin. The workshop on ‘The EU and Globalisation: Assets and Liabilities’ was organized in cooperation with LMU Munich and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
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Major European subsidy for Health psychologist Andrea Evers
Andrea Evers is the new Professor of the brand-new unit of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. She's getting off to a flying start in Leiden with a consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC). Her ambition? 'To work together with other disciplines; that way we can arrive at new insigh…
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Second place in Future Ideas European Master Thesis Competition 2013
LIACS graduate Lieven van Velthoven won yet another award for his Media Technology MSc graduation thesis entitled
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25 September, 2015: Opening Central and East European Studies Center
Friday 25 September, 2015 marks the official launch of Leiden University's Central and East European Studies (CEES) Center.
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Louis Honée winner at European Universities Debating Championship
Louis Honée, a student assistant for the Thorbecke chair and the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, is one of the new European Universities Debating Champions. Together with his team partner, he beat around 150 teams in the English as a Second Language category.
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Conference European Association of Labour Court Judges in Amsterdam
The annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) will be held this year in Amsterdam. From 9 to 11 June Labour Court judges from various European countries will gather at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. Professor G.C. Boot, justice of that court and Professor of Labour…
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The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy
This paper aims to understand the most common underlying problems causing strategic surprise in the context of the European Union.
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on ‘Human rights or fundamental rights norms in EU courts’ at the European University Institute, Florence
On 24-25 April 2017 Vasiliki Kosta, Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute, participated in the workshop “Human rights norms in ‘other’ international courts and tribunals”.
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Wild West Frisia
The role of domestic and wild resource exploitation in Bronze Age subsistence
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The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration
Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around…
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Thomas, The Return of Intergovernmentalism?
Citizens, journalists and scholars notice that foreign policy in, and of, the European Union, is ‘de-Europeanising’. Political scientist Daniel Thomas (Leiden University) offers a theoretical exploration of the likely implications. He expects that it will become more difficult for the EU to achieve…
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Launch of the European Network of Brazilianists – REBRAC
Sara Brandellero, Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies (LUCAS), is a founding member of the newly launched European Network of Brazilianists working in Cultural Analysis/Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural – REBRAC. Network launched at international conference at the University of…
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European subsidy for exchanges doubled at Leiden University
Almost a hundred students and researchers can study in Leiden or go from Leiden to another university abroad as part of an exchange programme. Fourteen exchange projects have been awarded a subsidy from the EU's Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme.
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Interview with European Youth Award winner Matteo Consonni
Matteo Consonni, Public Administration graduate at Leiden University won the European Youth Award (EYA) in 2015. In this interview with EYA, he tells what he's been up to since then and discusses entrepreneurship.
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GTGC Lunch Seminar: Governing the European Textile Waste Export
On Monday 4 December 2023, the GTGC Seed Grant project with Glenn Aguilar Hernandez, Elena Bondarouk, Arjan de Koning, Antonella Maiello, and Daniela Vicherat Mattar presented their reseach 'Flaws in the flow. Investigating gaps in the governance of European textile waste export'.
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14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Various GTGC researchers convened panels and presented papers at the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Power Politics of Nature, that took place online from 13-17 September 2021.
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at event organised by Dutch Competition Law Association
On 10 January, Ben Van Rompuy spoke at the New Year's meeting of the Dutch Competition Law Association in Amsterdam.
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The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires.
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‘A handful of companies can't be allowed to dominate the market’
European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, gave a warning in the Europa Lecture on 14 June about large companies that abuse their power. 'An honest society begins with honest markets.'
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Leiden to be European City of Science in 2022
In 2022 Leiden will host the Euroscience Open Forum, Europe's biggest multidisciplinary scientific meeting. Leiden University, the Municipality of Leiden and The Hague Convention Bureau joined forces to organise the conference and bring it to Leiden.
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European award for dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials
In 2017 Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof defended her dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials of the Low Countries at the Faculty of Archaeology. Out of 36 applications from ten different countries, her dissertation was awarded the Prix Européen D’Archéologie Joseph Déchelette on June 15th.
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European Research Council: ten years of leading research
The European Research council (ERC) was founded ten years ago today. The ERC is an important agency for research funding, including to Leiden University.
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European collaboration shines a light on enzyme discovery for industry
A European consortium has provided a disruptive technological breakthrough to allow the discovery and characterization of novel enzymes for industrial biotechnology. The technology will open the way to more efficient industrial processes such as in the biofuel, animal feed and paper and pulp industr…
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Crucial Dutch contribution to European X-ray telescope
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO allocates nearly € 19.5 million to a Dutch cluster that contributes to the development of an X-ray camera and spectrograph for the new European space telescope Athena. Leiden Observatory is one of the members of the cluster.
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Join us at the European Media Arts Festival (EMAF)
Students, staff and alumni of the Media Technology program will make a collective visit to the European Media Art Festival 2021, one of the most influential international forums of contemporary Media Arts.
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Tom Theuns
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Richard Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Koosje van Lessen Kloeke
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bernard Steunenberg
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marc van der Ham
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Tom Bouwman
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Melanie Fink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Armin Cuyvers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nikoleta Yordanova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Kroon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Horst Fischer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Helena Vrabec
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Mos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Joris Larik
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Arjan Louwen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Louise Olerud
Faculteit Archeologie