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Surrogacy processes identified by Leiden University17 October 2024How many children are born with the help of a surrogate mother in the Netherlands, and which legal obstacles can arise? Through a new interdisciplinar...
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos17 October 2024This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behavio...
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre17 October 2024Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
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In Memoriam: Ruchama Noorda16 October 202415 March 1979 - 11 October 2024
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Is the precautionary principle adequately embedded in the Dutch Environment and Planning Act?16 October 2024Rogier Kegge, Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, contributed to the technical brief on the precautionary ...
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FGGA researchers win Horizon grant: 760,000 euro for project on the rule of law16 October 2024The EU’s programme for research and innovation Horizon Europe is funding the ISGA project ‘NET-ROL: Networks and the Rule of Law: Uncovering Socio-Eco...
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Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets16 October 2024Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?
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ELS Academy Research Grant awarded to collaborative research design on comparing case law review method vs court file studiesCourt file data wanted! 16 October 2024Last Friday, during the ELS Academy Annual Event, Loran Kostense (VU), Sofia de Jong (Leiden University), Rieneke Stelma-Roorda (VU) and Anne Verboom ...
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Social Science Matters: Internationalization15 October 2024International education in the Netherlands is under pressure. There is pressure on the student housing market, and there is a greater desire among rig...
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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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Audiovisual research provides new insights into how migrants navigate major life events14 October 2024NWO-funded audiovisual research into the experiences of migrants during major life events has culminated in new insights that can further our understa...
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From wildlife journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution14 October 2024Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his Ph...
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows14 October 2024Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, ha...
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A cocktail of chemicals in surface water is more toxic than each substance individually14 October 2024Pesticides can form a toxic cocktail when they occur in combination in surface water. This is the finding of research that Leiden University and the D...
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More housing in cities is possible without sacrificing green spaces14 October 2024Building more in urban areas is, in most places in the Netherlands, the smartest way to tackle the housing crisis. This is evident from research condu...