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Royal honour for Professor Paul van der Heijden 07 February 2019
On Thursday 7 February Professor P.F. van der Heijden was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau. He received the royal honour from Minister ...
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Excellent status for Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies 17 January 2019
The Advanced Master in Law and Digital Technologies has been assessed as excellent by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders ...
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Thesis prizes awarded at New Year’s Reception 14 January 2019
During the New Year’s reception on Thursday 10 January 2019 prizes were awarded for the three best (Dutch) master’s theses in 2018.
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2018 Hall of Fame 21 December 2018
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Gineke Wiggers receives prize for paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval 17 December 2018
PhD student Gineke Wiggers has won the 2nd prize for her paper on User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval in the PhD consortium of the 31s...
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Niels Stensen Fellowship awarded to Vestert Borger 08 November 2018
A Niels Stensen Fellowship has recently been awarded to Vestert Borger. Since the 1960s, the Fellowship is awarded each year to 6 or 7 scholars at Dut...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Victor Halberstadt 06 November 2018
Emeritus professor Victor Halberstadt has been honoured with the Cross of Honour of the Order of the House of Orange.
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Dutch Air and Space Fund 30 October 2018
Friday 26 October the NLF prices were awarded. LLM alumna Annemarie Schuite won the 'Albert Plesmanrijs' for her investigation on Aviation Safety vers...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers 15 October 2018
The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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MSCA (‘Marie Curie’) grant for Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Bart Custers 11 September 2018
Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and his supervisor Dr. Bart Custers received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) fund for research on legal and regulat...
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers 16 July 2018
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers p...
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Shuai Guo wins International Insolvency Institute’s 2018 Prize 29 June 2018
Shuai Guo, PhD candidate at Company Law and the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, has been awarded the Silver Medal in the competition of the Intern...
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Europa institute welcomes 2 new Meijers grant recipients 29 June 2018
We are very happy to announce that two candidates of the Europa Institute won the Meijers PhD grant of 2018. Both PhD-students will perform highly top...
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European subsidy for exchanges doubled at Leiden University 25 June 2018
Almost a hundred students and researchers can study in Leiden or go from Leiden to another university abroad as part of an exchange programme. Fourtee...
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Mark Klaassen appointed in the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs 20 June 2018
Mark Klaassen, assistant professor at the Institute of Immigration Law, has been appointed as a committee member in the Advisory Committee on Migratio...