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Another year of successful participation of Leiden Law School in the 2021 European Law Moot Court Competition 25 June 2021
This year’s regional finals of the European Law Moot Court (ELMC) competition took place online. The 32 teams that qualified from the written rounds c...
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Armin Cuyvers appointed full professor of EU law at Leiden Law School 21 June 2021
The Board of Leiden University has appointed Armin Cuyvers as a full professor of European Law, specifically EU Constitutional Law and Comparative Reg...
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Advanced EIHRL LLM Candidates draft report For the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression 16 June 2021
Prof. Mark Leiser and a team of thirteen law students from Leiden University’s Advanced LLM programmes in European and International Human Rights Law ...
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Fieldwork in Leiden 16 June 2021
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, stud...
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eLaw taught at Mykolas Romeris University 07 June 2021
It is said that robots replace human interaction, but not always. This spring, the robots were the reason why the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Tech...
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The International Air Law Moot Court takes online to the next level 04 June 2021
Like many moot court competitions around the world, the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition was conducted fully online this year...
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Children’s Rights Moot Court 2021: 7 to 16 June 2021 03 June 2021
48 student teams from all over the world will be taking part in the international online moot court competition. The event is organised by Leiden Univ...
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Van Vollenhoven Staff Participate in Annual Law and Society Association Conference 02 June 2021
Nine staff members of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society participated in the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) annual c...
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Honours class students do research into confidence in the justice system 28 May 2021
Students from the ‘Public confidence in the criminal justice system’ Bachelor’s Honours Class completed this course with their presentations at the fi...
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Research report ‘Interpretation and implementation of the Returns Directive’ 12 May 2021
The EU Returns Directive is an important instrument to humanely return third-country nationals without lawful residence to their country of origin. Ho...
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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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Leiden Law School and the Mexican Supreme Court strengthen collaboration 26 April 2021
Leiden Law School and the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Mexican Supreme Court (CEC-SCJN) have signed a memorandum of understanding, to carr...
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EU lessons for East-Africa? Armin Cuyvers lectures for University of Nairobi on Regional Integration 23 April 2021
On 21 April 2021, Armin Cuyvers lectured students and staff of the University of Nairobi on EU law and comparative regional integration.
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New in The Hague: minor Business Administration 20 April 2021
As of academic year 2021-2022 Leiden University is offering a minor Business Administration in The Hague. What is this minor and what can you achieve ...
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#COVID under19: Children’s rights during the coronavirus pandemic 19 April 2021
Children and young people feel the government is not listening to them during the coronavirus pandemic and this is a cause for concern in light of int...