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The utopia is not a utopia for everyone19 September 2024A perfect world, who doesn't want that? But what is perfect is debatable. What is great for one person is disastrous for another. PhD student Zeynep A...
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33rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) to Leiden in 202719 September 2024Leiden is proud to announce that the city has been selected to host the 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), sched...
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Leiden University addresses the UN on children’s rights19 September 2024Leiden University celebrates 10 years of OPIC by giving a key contribution at UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s commemoration event.
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Modderman Prize 2024 awarded to Elco Nab19 September 2024The Modderman Prize for the years 2022-2023 is to be awarded to Elco Nab. This prize is awarded once every two years to advance research in the field ...
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Dutch astronomers observe giant jets emanating from black hole19 September 2024An international team of astronomers led by Dutch scientist Martijn Oei has discovered the largest pair of jets from a black hole ever seen. The 'jumb...
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Special donor makes stroke recovery research possible19 September 2024How do you ensure that people who have had a stroke get the right therapy at the right time? This is the question researcher Jorit Meesters wants to a...
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How do you keep citizens engaged in democracy? An interview with Carola Schoor19 September 2024If you want easy answers to governance questions, you might as well abolish democracy, believes Dr. Carola Schoor. A democracy should challenge and ra...
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'A Changing Europe in a Changing World' conference17 September 2024The annual meeting of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL) took place on 13 and 14 September 2024 in Legrena, Greece.
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language17 September 2024Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach thi...
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A new perspective on pneumonia: what does our body tell us about the cause?16 September 2024Effectively treating a severe case of pneumonia is often challenging. Identifying the pathogen behind it can be difficult. PhD candidate Ilona den Har...
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New issue of Common Market Law Review16 September 2024The October 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 5 is now available online.
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The forgotten world of Surinamese cloths and the Leiden Cotton Company16 September 2024For her internship at the Textile Museum, master's student Evi van Stiphout researched the Surinamese cloths of the Leiden Cotton Company. Leiden and ...
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Why rules don’t work for some of the population16 September 2024Excessive regulatory burden causes economic harm and can undermine trust in government. Policymakers wishing to ease this should be more mindful of pe...
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Marie Schwed Shenker to present at International Conference on Social Robots (ICSR 2024)13 September 2024We are excited to announce that Marie Schwed Shenker's research paper, co-authored with Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Associate Professor at eLaw) and P...
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Marie Schwed Shenker attends Utrecht Summer School on Social Robots12 September 2024Marie Schwed Shenker, PhD candidate at eLaw, has successfully completed an intensive summer school on Social Robotics at Utrecht University. The progr...