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Third Congress of Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration 17 June 2024
Between 12 and 14 June, Professor Larissa van den Herik and Dr Mamadou Hébié participated in the Third Congress of the Members of the Permanent Court ...
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Interview with interim cabinet minister Van Leeuwen: from lawyer to diplomat to politician 17 June 2024
In his last week as interim cabinet minister, alumnus and outgoing Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Geoffrey van Leeuwen s...
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Hilde Woker and Renate Reitsma appointed members of National Ocean Decade Committee 14 June 2024
The National Ocean Decade Committee has appointed two new members from Leiden University. As members of this committee, Hilde Woker and Renate Reitsma...
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Prison reward systems do not work well and prisoners are the ones who pay 13 June 2024
Ten years ago, a new reward system was introduced in Dutch prisons: the only way prisoners could earn extra ‘freedoms’ was through good behaviour. Fre...
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The environment: victim and initiator of armed conflict 12 June 2024
The Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding is set to take place between 19 and 21 June at the Wijnhaven building in The Hague. ...
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Using health data for scientific research isn’t that simple 12 June 2024
While health data is essential for scientific research, that data also needs to be protected. In her doctoral thesis, Irith Kist found a balance betwe...
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New Council of Europe report authored by Carlotta Rigotti 10 June 2024
The Council of Europe has released a groundbreaking report on the digital dimension of violence against women in the Republic of Moldova, authored by ...
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The BIAS project at the Japanese Society on Artificial Intelligence Symposium 2024 10 June 2024
On 28 and 29 May, Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, held a workshop on fairness and diversity bias in AI-driven recruitment at the an...
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Carlotta Rigotti at Kyoto University 10 June 2024
On Thursday 23 May, Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, gave a guest lecture on the regulation of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in th...
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Earth-Space Symposium: 12-13 November 2024 in Utrecht 10 June 2024
The Earth-Space Symposium is set to take place on 12 and 13 November. This year’s symposium will be hosted by Utrecht University and its theme will be...
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Dutch Association for Criminology celebrates 50th anniversary in Leiden 10 June 2024
On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June, criminologists from across the Netherlands and Flanders descended upon the KOG Building for the sixteenth time. Leide...
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Europa Lecture by Iyiola Solanke on ‘A decolonial approach to research and teaching in EU Law’ 06 June 2024
On 24 May, Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Fellow of Somerville College, gave the ...
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Malgieri's co-authored paper on PETs presented and published at FAccT Conference 2024 06 June 2024
Gianclaudio Malgieri's paper entitled 'The unfair side of Privacy Enhancing Technologies: addressing the trade-offs between PETs and fairness', coauth...
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at Association of European Competition Law Judges annual meeting 05 June 2024
Ben Van Rompuy participated as an invited expert in the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ), which took ...
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New online platform launched to support global children's rights legislative reform 05 June 2024
In collaboration with UNICEF and University College Cork, Leiden University is delighted to launch a new online platform aimed to provide essential gu...