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Steef Bartman delivers keynote address at congress in Cyprus 17 October 2017
On October 7th the Department of Law at the University of Cyprus hosted a conference on company law titled: Cross-borders Mergers Directive: EU Perspe...
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Prof. Ton Liefaard to speak about access to justice for children in The Hague 12 October 2017
On 3 November 2017 in The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Prof. Ton Liefaard (Professor of Children's Rights at Leiden University and...
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Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law 10 October 2017
Alexandre Genest will defend his PhD dissertation ‘Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law’ as part of a double PhD progr...
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International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in The Hague 04 October 2017
On 2 and 3 October 2017, a delegation of the Child Law Department has participated in the 15th European regional conference of the International Socie...
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Students of Child Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional and administrative law lectured by mayor Lenferink 27 September 2017
On Wednesday, September 27th the mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, gave a lecture to the master's-degree students of Child Law, Criminal Law and Const...
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First five-yearly anniversary master’s programme Child Law celebrated 12 September 2017
On the evening of 11 September 2017, the first five-yearly anniversary of the master’s programme Child Law (Jeugdrecht) was celebrated.
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Masterthesis about Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award 2017! 05 September 2017
The Jaap Doek Children’s rights thesis award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children ...
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Veni award for Stephanie Rap 31 August 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to Stephanie Rap. This award offers promising young scientists the...
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Second graduation ceremony Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights 29 August 2017
After a year of hard work, the second class of students of the Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights received their well...
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Chinese delegation at Leiden Law School for juvenile justice study visit 25 August 2017
From 21 August to 24 August, a Chinese delegation together with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) conducted a...
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Register now for the Henri Capitant-symposium 11 August 2017
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dutch group of the Francophone comparative law Association Henri Capitant the Dutch group organises a s...
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Contribution to the book Socio-Economic Human Rights by Iris Houben and Hetty ten Oever 28 July 2017
Houben and Ten Oever investigate the relationship between public service obligations in EU law (PSOs) and human rights. PSOs served mainly as a correc...
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The developing brain and behaviour 20 July 2017
Our childhood years largely determine how we will fare later in life. In the first two decades of our life, our brain is still developing, which is cl...
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Leiden Law School celebrates 5 years of the Frontiers of Children’s Rights Summer School 10 July 2017
On Wednesday 5 July 2017 the Child Law Department and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School hosted a festive drinks ...
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Study on Children’s Rights and Biomedicine for Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics 10 July 2017
The study ‘From Law to Practice: Towards a Roadmap to Strengthen Children’s Rights in the Era of Biomedicine’ written by experts from Leiden Law Schoo...