4,663 search results for “history of law” in the Public website
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Jan-Peter Loof lectures on states of emergency and rule of law at Annual Research Day School of Human Rights Research in
On 9 November 2016 Jan-Peter Loof presented a lecture at the Annual Research Day of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research (SHRR), which this year took place at the University of Amsterdam.
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Understanding Ghanaian sign language(s): history, linguistics, and ideology
On the 27th of June, Timothy Mac Hadjah successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Timothy on this achievement!
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Affiliated institutes & researchers
The profile area Political Legitimacy brings together researchers from multiple research institutes within Leiden University.
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Climate Change Response in Weak Rule-of-Law Environments
This socio-legal study focuses on the implementation of climate change response laws and policies in developing countries with a weak rule-of-law environment, and their (unforeseen) effects on vulnerable peoples’ land rights.
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
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Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]
This project investigates the full ecosystem of Middle Dutch prayerbooks in order to answer questions about their role in – and impact on – religion, culture, and society in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Jens Iverson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vertical interventions? The local politics of migration management and policing in intra-Schengen borderlands
What is the role of local authorities and communities in shaping how inter-Schengen borders are understood and dealt with?
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Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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Turks, texts and territory: Imperial ideology and cultural production in Central Eurasia
Turkic nomadic rulers established large empires in the Middle East and Asia between the 11th and 14th centuries. This project will explore the link between their political ideology and the production of art and literature, via the cultural heritage of five cities along the Silk Road: Kashgar, Samarkand,…
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.
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Corné Smit
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alison McDonnell
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marcel de Groodt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Douae Youssef
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ben van Velthoven
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ellen Gijselaar
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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David Sander
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter van Wijck
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mojdeh Kobari
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rick Lawson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Aalbers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Danny Jol
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Cathalijne van der Plas
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Marco Bronckers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Pavlos Masouros
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Robrecht Timmermans
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kristof Gombeer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Paul Adriaanse
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jolein Holtz
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jet Liesker
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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ECSL Summer Course on Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law
One of ECSL’s most successful activities is the ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy, which is open to students of all levels of study, as well as a few young professionals already working in the space or space-related sectors. The course is now in its 31st year and boasts a large family of alumni…
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distinguished fellow at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law
Professor Versteeg is currently Professor of Law at Virginia School of Law in the United States, where she has been working since 2011 as Miller Center Director and Human Rights Program Director at the Center for Comparative and International Law University of the Virginia School of Law.
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A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.
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Call for Papers: H2OLAW Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference ‘H2OLAW – Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law’ hosted by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University. The conference will take place on 26 and 27 September 2024 at Leiden University in the…
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INFORM Day on EU Data Protection Law
On Friday November 2nd 2018, eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, will host a one-day conference on the new EU Data Protection Law that came into force earlier this year.
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Department of Child Law to become Department of Child Law and Health Law
The Faculty Board and the Institute of Private Law have agreed to combine the disciplines of child law, international children’s rights and health law into one Department of Child Law and Health Law.