In the media
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Ann Skelton in Aljazeera on child rights in Syria Camps 17 October 2022
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has accused Finland of violating the rights of Finnish children by leaving them in life-...
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'Court ruling is balancing act between legal review of rules and feasibility of reception of asylum applicants' 13 October 2022
According to a recent court ruling, the reception of asylum applicants in the Netherlands is not in line with European requirements. The Dutch Governm...
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Rogier Kegge in ‘de Volkskrant’ on the nitrogen crisis and the construction project exemption 11 October 2022
Rogier Kegge, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law of Leiden University, was interviewed by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant in response to...
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Study programmes Leiden Law School awarded ‘best study’ medals 10 October 2022
Five study programmes at Leiden Law School have received a medal for ‘best study programme’. This was the result of research conducted by Dutch EW Mag...
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Wim Voermans discusses the Public Records Act and violations of administrative confidentiality in the Arib case 05 October 2022
Prime Minister Rutte has broken the Archiefwet (Dutch Public Records Act) for years by deleting his text messages. That was the conclusion of the Info...
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Majority of requests to transfer asylum seekers to other EU countries lead to nothing 05 October 2022
Over eighty percent of all Dutch requests to send asylum seekers back to the country where they should have requested asylum lead to nothing. This is ...
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Mark Klaassen and Olaf van Vliet discuss European labour migrants in FD 04 October 2022
The Netherlands cannot stop European labour migrants coming here. Nor does The Hague have much influence on the influx of asylum seekers. But experts ...
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Jan Vleggeert on Irish meat company that used the Netherlands to evade taxes 29 September 2022
The Irish meat magnate Larry Goodman is under scrutiny: he is thought to have evaded taxes by using a Dutch company, among other things.
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Leiden Legal Technologies Program runner up for Gouden Zandloper 28 September 2022
The Leiden Legal Technologies Program is runner up for the Gouden Zandloper (Golden Hourglass) for Legal Education & Research, the prize for the most ...
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Michael Klos on Dutch Radio Weetlust on freedom of speech on the internet 22 September 2022
On 15 September, Democracy Day, Michael Klos, researcher/teacher at the Department of Jurisprudence of Leiden Law School appeared as a guest on Radio ...
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Esther van Ginneken in NRC: 'Stop further austerity at prisons' 20 September 2022
Cuts in the prison system threaten to be at the expense of security, including that of society, writes university lecturer Esther van Ginneken in an o...
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Influence of European Union on 'our' national laws is increasing 19 September 2022
How many of our laws in the Netherlands are actually determined by the European Union? In many areas, the influence of the EU has increased. But 80 pe...
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Mariëlle Bruning in Trouw about extra money for youth protection 16 September 2022
The Dutch cabinet will allocate a total of 40 million euros extra for institutions providing youth protection and youth rehabilitation over the next f...
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Olaf van Vliet and Eduard Suari Andreu in NRC about research on migrants and social security 13 September 2022
EU migrants receive less frequent and lower benefits and allowances than Dutch citizens. This is according to research by Leiden economists Olaf van V...
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eLaw publishes article in Computer Law & Security Review 12 September 2022
In healthcare, gender and sex considerations are crucial because they affect individuals' health and disease differences. Yet, most algorithms deploye...