In the media
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Carsten Stahn: 'New ICC prosecutor can bring new momentum' 18 June 2021
On Wednesday 16 June 2021, Karim Khan was sworn in at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Experts say this is no easy time to join th...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: 'Rules in space are to everyone’s advantage' 15 June 2021
Space is of enormous strategic value. Having rules in space therefore is to everyone’s advantage.
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Female workers Tesco Stores win case on unequal pay 08 June 2021
Female workers at Tesco Stores, a chain of supermarkets in the UK, brought a case to the European Court of Justice claiming they received unequal pay ...
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'If a country is not safe, it will not become wealthy' 08 June 2021
Over the past 20 years, levels of common crime throughout the world dropped, except in countries that are plagued by poverty, have large families and ...
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Income-based fines coming in the Netherlands? 07 June 2021
In many European countries, the amount of a fine is based on the level of your income. This already exists in Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, and Sp...
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Mariëlle Bruning: No complete figures on waiting lists for youth care 03 June 2021
The waiting lists in youth care are alarmingly long. This has been confirmed again by a study carried out by the Dutch foundation The Forgotten Child.
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Steven Truxal on aviation incident with Belarus 28 May 2021
Government leaders have been searching for words to condemn the actions of Belarus which intercepted a passenger aircraft flying from Athens to Vilniu...
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Eric De Brabandere: 'Ruling against Shell will inspire other cases' 28 May 2021
For the first time, a court has ordered a company to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. Lawyers see it as a landmark ruling that will have far-reach...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021
These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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eLaw publishes in Nature 27 May 2021
Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pu...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Mark Klaassen in Argos about age determination for asylum seekers 06 May 2021
At the end of 2020, the Advisory Committee on Aliens Affairs issued the report 'Nadeel van de twijfel' (The Doubt) on the way the (age) registration o...
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Article on Global Pandemic Treaty co-authored by Ginevra Le Moli in The Lancet 30 April 2021
The article deals with an issue that will be at the heart of the World Health Assembly to be held in May, namely the concept of ‘deep prevention’ and ...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: Still no obligation to clear up space debris 30 April 2021
Space travel has long since progressed from being just about rockets, travelling to the moon, and Russia and America. The Netherlands has its own Spac...
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Tom Barkhuysen on ruling extending access to court 22 April 2021
By a ruling of the Dutch Council of State, local residents and organisations can after all take their case to court even if they made no objection dur...