In the media
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Barend Barentsen discusses public transportation strikes 20 October 2022Barend Barentsen, Professor Labour Law, talked about the local public transportation strikes in the Netherlands with Omroep Gelderland.
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Mark Klaassen on the Dublin claim on Voice of America News 18 October 2022The Dublin claim determines which country of the European Union is responsible for processing the asylum application of a particular asylum seeker. In...
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Mariëlle Bruning: ‘Give priority in youth care to children with a child protection order' 18 October 2022‘I need the municipalities to solve the problems in youth protection’, said Franc Weerwind, Minister of Legal Protection, recently in the Dutch House ...
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Asylum seekers from safe countries influence negative opinion 17 October 2022The asylum seekers’ centres in Hengelo, Almelo and Schalkhaar caused little or no nuisance in recent years. There have been hardly any incidents, acco...
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Ann Skelton in Aljazeera on child rights in Syria Camps 17 October 2022The 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 2022Rogier 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 2022Five 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 2022Prime 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 2022The 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 2022The 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 2022The 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 2022On 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 2022Cuts 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...