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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’ 12 April 2022
Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Autism with borders 31 March 2022
Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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UBL acquires rare Chinese Miao album 28 March 2022
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction' 17 March 2022
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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Flash interview with alumna Kartica van der Zon 15 March 2022
Did you know that PhD candidates are also alumni of your alma mater? High time to put a PhD alumna and her research in the spotlight. Besides, this mo...
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague 07 March 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about th...
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’ 03 March 2022
Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented...
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Advocating for Human rights in Brussels: catching up with Calum Thomson 17 February 2022
Many students see themselves working at an NGO in Brussels after graduation. Alumnus Calum Thomson (26) is doing just that. In 2021 Calum started work...
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations? 16 February 2022
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor i...
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From obtaining a Master in Child Law to a lateral entry in teaching 14 February 2022
This month we interview alumna Dominique Mars who made an interesting career choice: she tells us how she chose to be a teacher at a primary school wh...
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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg' 10 February 2022
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After stud...
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Conference abstract submission deadline extended - Courts as an Arena for Societal Change 01 February 2022
On July 8 - 9, 2022, Leiden University will be hosting a two-day, international conference on the theme of Courts as an Arena for Societal Change. The...
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A new administrative culture starts with us 25 January 2022
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it?...
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IOC Vice President: ‘Leiden is where I learned to stand up for myself’ 24 January 2022
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 made a big impression on Nicole Hoevertsz. I’m going to be there one day, the eight-year-o...
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead 20 January 2022
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the...