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How can police officers obey the rules? Research links legal norms to technology 20 September 2024
It’s not something the police force wants to see, but it still occurs: racist and misogynist police conduct. Human rights specialist Dr Linda Louis ha...
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A new songbook for Leiden’s 3 October festival: why you should come to the singsong in the park 19 September 2024
After a long night of partying, hundreds of people head to Leiden’s Van der Werfpark early on 3 October for a good singsong. Lecturer in Dutch literat...
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Largest research project on sustainable hydrogen production kicks off 19 September 2024
It is one of the energy carriers of the future: hydrogen. But how can hydrogen be produced in a sustainable way? With over 50 million euros in funding...
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The utopia is not a utopia for everyone 19 September 2024
A 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 2027 19 September 2024
Leiden 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 rights 19 September 2024
Leiden 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 Nab 19 September 2024
The 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 hole 19 September 2024
An 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 possible 19 September 2024
How 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 Schoor 19 September 2024
If 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' conference 17 September 2024
The 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 language 17 September 2024
Leiden 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 2024
Effectively 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 Review 16 September 2024
The 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 Company 16 September 2024
For her internship at the Textile Museum, master's student Evi van Stiphout researched the Surinamese cloths of the Leiden Cotton Company. Leiden and ...