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Post-Gaddafi Libya and Prison Climate in the Netherlands: The ILS Lunch Seminar of March 22 March 2019On Thursday 14 March, the third ILS Lunch Seminar of this year took place. In this well visited seminar, Nienke van Heek and Esther van Ginneken gave ...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Nienke van Heek and Esther van Ginneken 06 March 2019The monthly ILS Lunch Seminars present the perfect opportunity to unite the different Institutes situated within Leiden Law School. On Thursday 14 Mar...
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Interview with Suliman Ibrahim on Libya in ‘Mare’ 27 February 2019Suliman Ibrahim was interviewed by Leiden University’s weekly newspaper ‘Mare’ about his research on Libya.
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Interview with Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii on Child Marriage in Indonesian newspaper ‘Jakarta Globe’ 20 February 2019PhD candidates Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii were interviewed about their research on Child Marriage in Indonesia in the ‘Jakarta Globe’, a daily online ...
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Maartje van der Woude gives a lecture at UC Berkeley on ‘The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe’ 13 February 2019Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) will give a lecture at the Institute of European Studies of the Univer...
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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people 23 January 2019Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage t...
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Leiden University takes part in new international research project TRAFIG/Creative solutions to the challenge of forced displacement 23 January 2019On 17th December, the Global Compact on Refugees has been adopted at the UN General Assembly. One of the central goals of the Compact on Refugees is t...
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Adat land rights: the solution for land conflicts in Indonesia? 19 December 2018Land conflicts between farmers and government authorities or large plantation businesses are an everyday occurrence in many countries in the Global So...
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Visit Leiden Law School to Indonesia 06 December 2018From 24 to 30 November 2018, a delegation from Leiden Law School, led by dean Joanne van der Leun and Adriaan Bedner, visited several partner universi...
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‘Coherent policies for the development of biofuels needed’ 12 November 2018In the early 2000s, Jatropha Curcas was worldwide promoted as a promising solution to global concerns on climate change, fossil fuel depletion and rur...
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Masterclass ‘Access to Justice in Indonesian frontier area’ 02 October 2018On 6 September 2018 Jacqueline Vel of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society organised a master class on ‘Access to Justice’ at...
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Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network 19-21 September 20 September 2018From 19 to 21 September, the Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network took place at the National Museum of Ethnology (Museu...
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Maartje van der Woude Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley 19 September 2018Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) will be visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society a...
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Maartje van der Woude about her research into mobile border control in ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’ 13 September 2018
Professor of Law and Society, Maartje van der Woude, had an interview in ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’ of 4 September 2018 about her research into mobile b...
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Seminar on Criminalising and Emancipatory Trends in Family Law in Indonesia and other Muslim Majority Countries 03 September 2018The seminar is organised by the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI), The Royal Netherlands Institute for the Study of Sout...