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Why do vulnerable groups miss out on benefits? Research nominated for thesis prize 19 February 2024
Why do vulnerable groups fail to make use of benefits that they are entitled to? This is what Max ten Velde researched in his Master’s in Management o...
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress 15 February 2024
The varied mix of dress styles and many shades of black will no longer be seen at PhD ceremonies: permission was recently given for all members of the...
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Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could soon affect our approach to the North Pole 15 February 2024
The Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea. Rerouting via South Africa is expensive, whereas the Arctic route only takes a week. Once a no-go zone...
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Alumnus Charlotte Poot developed a hospital app for children 14 February 2024
Charlotte Poot (31) is co-founder and chair of Hospital Hero, an app that prepares children for a hospital visit. She studied and obtained her PhD at ...
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Leiden University to limit fossil fuel ties 13 February 2024
Leiden University no longer wishes to collaborate with fossil fuel partners that are not demonstrably committed to achieving the Paris Agreement targe...
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Leiden labour law students visit Czech Labour Inspectorate in Prague 13 February 2024
During the recent study trip that Sine Labore Nihil (the labour law study association) took to Prague, Leiden’s labour law students visited the Czech ...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024
‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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In conversation with Ben Smulders: from Leiden Law School student to top civil servant at European Commission 09 February 2024
Alumnus Ben Smulders has worked for the European Commission for the past 33 years. ‘The discipline and depth that I experienced during my student days...
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Honours College Law expansion: inclusive, personal, collaborative 09 February 2024
The Honours College Law (HC Law) is soon going to look very different. What does the HC Law currently do, and what’s going to change? Why should you a...
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis 08 February 2024
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024
On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024
On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Department of Child Law to become Department of Child Law and Health Law 05 February 2024
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...
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eLaw master's student wins thesis award from Dutch Data Protection Authority 01 February 2024
On on 29 January 2024, it was announced that Aylin Alexa Zainea has won the Thesis Award from the Dutch Data Protection Authority. She wrote her thesi...
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Introducing the new Faculty Board 31 January 2024
On 15 February 2024, Leiden Law School's Faculty Board will enter a new phase.