450 news items found
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Department of Child Law to become Department of Child Law and Health Law 05 February 2024The 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 2024On 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 2024On 15 February 2024, Leiden Law School's Faculty Board will enter a new phase.
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain 30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities 29 January 2024The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversi...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge 29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now? 27 January 2024Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the...
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Online hate speech undermines society 24 January 2024International Day of Education 2024 is dedicated to the role of education in countering hate speech. Assistant Professor Michael Klos says, 'When peop...
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art 23 January 2024The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Kors...
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Leiden University Academy: Deepen, enrich and grow 18 January 2024Leiden University Academy is making lifelong learning even better! The entire range of programmes on offer for professionals has been expanded and uni...
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Students with a connection to Israel or Palestine together in a support group 18 January 2024Psychology lecturer Sepideh Saadat is leading a support group for students affected by the Israel-Hamas war. In four sessions she brings together stud...
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Compelling unemployed people to widen their job search is often counterproductive 17 January 2024Unemployed people often need not only a financial safety net but also a stimulus to look for work. PhD candidate Heike Vethaak researched the effects ...
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From COA to the Red Cross: students and partners get to know each other 16 January 2024From COA to the police and from the Red Cross to a ministry, in the coming months, students from the Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) will have the o...