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Grotius-Asser Event with Dr Letizia Lo Giacco (Grotius Centre), Judge Hilary Charlesworth (ICJ) and Kiki Brölmann (UvA) 29 September 2024
On 19 September 2024, Dr Letizia Lo Giacco gave a lecture on "Seeking change through international courts: Rethinking what judicial decisions do in in...
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Sarah Cramsey's "Uprooting the Diaspora" wins the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies 27 September 2024
Sarah Cramsey's first book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946, has won the ...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on AI and Academic Publishing 27 September 2024
Artificial Intelligence is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all actors in the realm of academic publishing, including authors, editors, re...
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast 26 September 2024
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the int...
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Leiden University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants 26 September 2024
Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance. The projec...
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University 26 September 2024
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discriminati...
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Dean Koen Caminada on budget cuts: ‘There’s nothing we can’t handle’ 25 September 2024
It’s still difficult to estimate what the consequences of the announced budget cuts will be. A week after Prinsjesdag, Dean Koen Caminada can already ...
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Successful ‘landmark decisions’ panel discussion at ISLSSL World Congress in Rome 25 September 2024
Yvonne Erkens and Fieke Weber, both from the Department of Labour Law and Social Security, recently organised a panel discussion on behalf of the Inte...
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus alliance signs collaboration agreement with Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 25 September 2024
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) alliance signed a collaboration agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology on...
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Outer solar system possibly formed by a passing star 24 September 2024
The many thousands of small celestial bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit may have ended up there due to a star that passed close to the solar system billio...
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The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results? 24 September 2024
Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Co...
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How do we make choices in an overwhelming world? That is what Lotte van Dillen will study as new Professor Social Cognition and Decision Making 23 September 2024
Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decis...
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European Law LL.M. opening lecture by Bartjan Wegter, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator 23 September 2024
On 12 September 2024, the official ceremony opening the academic year 2024-2025 for students of the European Law master’s programme took place at Leid...
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New e-value even more flexible: significance level adjustable at a later stage 23 September 2024
Recently, a paper by Peter Grünwald was published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Grünwald is f...
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Leiden chemists discover new ways in which single-celled organisms organise their DNA 23 September 2024
It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that structure DNA. Now, Leiden P...