How did free agents cooperate with the VOC and the WIC, through lobbying for private interests within the Companies as well as at the highest political levels?

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The Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic (LAPP) is a pro bono initiative concerning legal questions on plastics and is founded to address and research the legal issues related to plastic pollution.

Researchers from the Institute of Public Administration study the mechanism of lobbying and influencing political parties and the behaviour of these parties to see how solutions are found to problems. This enables them to reach conclusions as to how best to effect changes in political focus and poli…

Sophie Vériter explores a small state’s impact on EU security governance, a hard challenge means against big states in this policy area.

This project aims to provide evidence-based knowledge on the conditions for successful anti-corruption activism in Ukraine.

Develop a tool to assess land tenure, access to land and, and land tenure conflict in Timor-Leste

On 14 and 15 September, the 'Lobbying the Courts' workshop took place in Paris. This was an interdisciplinary workshop in which researchers from different disciplines came together to brainstorm on whether, how, and when interest groups focus on the judicial process and the courts in their lobbying…

LERU, the League of European Research Universities, celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on 7 March in Brussels. The network of leading European universities has now grown to include 23 universities.

The Leiden Risk & Regulation Lab serves as hub for excellent research in regulation and risk governance and acts a platform for engagement with the practice and education of regulation and risk governance. Specializing in risk governance, responsive and effective regulation, reputation and accounta…

On 21 March 2018, the Dutch people will vote for local their municipality board. In preparation for these elections, the local lobbying groups are more than ever present to voice their own local interests. Arco Timmermans, Endowed Professor Public Affairs at Leiden University, discusses these groups…

Thanks to fanatical lobbying various groups of citizens and traders had a lot of influence on the initial success of the Dutch colony in Brazil. This is the conclusion of Leiden PhD candidate Joris van den Tol, who defended his thesis on 20 March.

On the 6th of February 2023, Nina Hall from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies presented her book titled 'Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local'. The book explores the role of digital advocacy organizations, a major new addition to the international…

The Risk and Regulation Lab is co-directed by:

How interest groups, differences in policy issues and institutional differences between countries affect whether public opinion is translated into policy?

Below you will find an overview of the publications of The Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic.

Arco Timmermans Public Affairs

Governance is a complex puzzle of organisations, people and divergent interests. Academic research in this field furthers our knowledge of the role of public administrators, of different organisational structures, of the people who work at such organisations and of how these organisations implement…

Moot Court: An academic skills training course

How and why governments engage with civil society as well as how civil society organizes itself and exerts political influence constitute the key focus of the research programme Public Governance & Civil Society. As such, this research programme offers unique expertise within the field of public administration…

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Leiden Law Practices (LLP)

The department Moot Court is located at the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw.

The LUGO team is part of the Administration and Central Services department of the university, with it falling under the Strategy and Academic Affairs department. Naturally, it falls into the sustainability team of the University, which consists of two full-time employees alongside the LUGO Team. The…

How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…

Netwerk en projecten duurzaamheid verduurzaming green office en green team

The programme provides you for a succesful career. As a graduate, you will be qualified for positions within organisations such as international courts.

As of 27 October Catia Antunes has been appointed as full member of the Young Academy of Europe.

This is the team of LAPP:

The Institute of Public Administration studies the complex problems facing the public sector in the 21st century, from climate policy to the effects of digitalisation. Its researchers analyse, explain and help come up with solutions to the challenges of society today.

Find out more about the career opportunities after finishing the programme International Children's Rights. The programme prepares you for a successful career..

In African societies today, growing inequality and continued exclusion due to ethnicity, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation give rise to both contestation and cooperation for social change. How does the written or spoken word lead to collaboration and contestation in areas of social…

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

The programme structure of the specialization International Criminal Law can be found on this page. The programme consists of several courses.

The International Criminal Law programme prepares you for a successful career within a multidimensional field, in Europe or around the world.

Arco Timmermans, Professor by special appointment Public Affairs at Leiden University, brought sience to practice by designing an “ideal” academic education programme on public affairs, to be embedded and taught at the graduate level.

The European Union Studies minor includes four core courses that provide students with comprehensive knowledge of the European Union’s institutions, policy process, economy, history, and current challenges. In addition to this, students also choose two electives from a broad portfolio of courses that…

Dario Fazzi

In the fall of 2021, Cleveringa professor Roméo Dallaire and world experts shared their thoughts about PTSD, children’s rights, war crimes, humanitarian law, and peacekeeping in a series of conversations about leadership and moral dilemma during times of conflict and crisis.

Teaching at the Institute of Public Administration focuses on studying public administration in its broadest sense, including semi-government, lobby organisations, civil society and relevant private organisations. Our courses have an interdisciplinary and theoretical-empirical approach, integrating…