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Ton Liefaard
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.liefaard@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nicaragua left the OAS on 19 November 2023
Following a series of diplomatic catastrophes and human rights violations in the country, Nicaragua has left the Organization of American States (OAS) on 19 November 2023. Unlike Brexit, where the decision to leave the EU was based on the famous 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum,…
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Book on Immigrant Integration: “The Civic Citizens of Europe” by Moritz Jesse
Moritz Jesse, Associate Professor of EU Law at the Europa Institute, has published his book, “The Civic Citizens of Europe: The Legal Potential for Immigrant Integration in the EU, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom”.
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Successful Summer Course on the Europeanisation of administrative law in the Member States
From 26-30 June 2017 the first edition of the summer course on the Europeanisation of administrative law in the EU Member States took place in The Hague.
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NATO Allies and the Protection of Civilians
In this policy paper, Joachim Koops and Christian Patz are discussing Germany’s comprehensive assessment of Protection of Civilians readiness at the national level.
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discussions during conference organised by JPAO and Department of Criminal Law and Procedure
On 4 November 2022, the Conference ‘Modernisering Wetboek van Strafvordering’ was held at the KOG. The conference was organised by JPAO and the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
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Researchers Humanities receive Veni grants
Three scholars of the Faculty of Humanities, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Thomas Fossen, and Tsolin Nalbantian, have received a Veni grant to implement their research plans over the coming years.
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Introduction to Air Law (Tenth Edition)
The world of aviation has moved on rapidly since the appearance of the ninth edition of this pre-eminent resource five years ago. Those developments pertain to market access and market behaviour by air carriers, including competition, new perceptions of safety and security, among others in relation…
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Tarlach McGonagle appointed as Professor of Media Law in the Information Society
Tarlach McGonagle has been appointed as Professor of Media Law in the Information Society as of 1 May 2019. The Chair is established by the Leiden University Fund (LUF) and is situated within the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The October 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 5 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The August issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 4 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The October issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 5 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 3 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 2 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The August 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 4 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The December 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 6 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The December 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 6 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The February 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 1 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The February 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 1 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The August 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 4 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The February 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 1 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 3 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The December 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 6 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The February 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 1 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The December issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 6 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 3 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 3 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 3 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The October 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 5 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The August 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 4 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The April 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 2 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The February issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 1 is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The April 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 2 is now available online.
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The staff of the Europa Institute possess extensive expertise on European Union law and European Human Rights law generally. Current research focuses on five areas of particular relevance for European integration.
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Participate in the Fourth International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform, Washington D.C.
On 17 and 18 November 2016 the World Bank in Washington, D.C. hosted the Fourth International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform.
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'The right to vote' and Catalan independence
Politicians in Barcelona are preparing for a new political battle. Nationalists fighting for Catalan independence have announced that they will organize a referendum this autumn, just as they did in 2014. Other parties claim that it will lead to new court cases because the referendum is unconstituti…
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A sense of society
This dissertation examines how we can reconstruct physical activity by looking at variations in the shape of muscle attachment sites ( ‘entheses’) on the human skeleton. It evaluates two post-medieval contexts; rural Middenbeemster and urban Aalst.
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Peter Rodrigues on best interests of the child in transnational families
Peter Rodrigues contributed a chapter 'Human Rights and the Best Interests of the Child in European Family Reunification Law' in the book by Bergamini E., Ragni C. (Eds.), Fundamental Rights and Best Interests of the Child in Transnational Families.
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Irma Mosquera Valderrama
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
i.j.mosquera.valderrama@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6618
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Dam-de Jong appointed as professor International Sustainable Development Law
Starting 1 February 2023, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong has been appointed as professor to the new Chair International Sustainable Development Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Her expertise lies in the field of sustainable development, with an emphasis on natural…
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WTO no excuse for environmental inaction
The state of our environment is a global concern. Despite an increasing awareness, setting internationally binding and ambitious commitments has proven to be a very difficult process. Can unilateral trade measures form an alternative and contribute to global environmental protection?
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Prepare for your studies
Prepare for your new study programme. We will provide you some usefull tips to help you get a heat start. See you soon at Leiden Law School!
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Laminar Technology and the Onset of the Upper Paleolithic in the Altai, Siberia
The Altai region has yielded a cluster of Middle and Upper Paleolithic stratified sites that have been recently excavated using a multidisciplinary approach.
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Nikki Sterkenburg on Baudet's meeting with Alt-Right
Nikki Sterkenburg, external PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague, was interviewed by the NOS programme Nieuws & Co about the meeting of Thierry Baudet with Alt-Right movement Jared Taylor. 'If Baudet would have wished to stay aloof of this movement, he shouldn’t…
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Summer school brushes up on children's rights
Digitisation and poor reception of refugees are putting children’s rights at risk. This warning comes from Professor Ton Liefaard. His department is organising a summer school on this issue.
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Funding of research on human trafficking and human smuggling in intra-Schengen border regions
Prof. dr. mr. Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) has received funding from the National Police to carry out a phenomenon research on the extent to which, and how, human trafficking and human smuggling are intertwined phenomena in intra-Schengen border areas.
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Stephanie Rap wins publication prize
On 24 November 2016 dr. Stephanie Rap received the publication prize of the Society for Family and Child Law for her publication ‘A children’s rights perspective on the participation of juvenile defendants in the youth court’, published in The International Journal of Children’s Rights, vol. 24(1),…
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Melanie Fink on Frontex and Access to Justice
On 6-8 and 10-13 November 2020, the Network for Migration Law (Netzwerk Migrationsrecht) organised their 14th annual conference on the topic of ‘law at the border’.
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Workshop on interdisiciplinary research methods in EU law
On 8 and 9 September, Armin Cuyvers and Eva Grosfeld presented their research project ‘Adapting EU law to human nature’ during the Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU law workshop in London.
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Are modern humans simply bad at smoking?
Scientist looked for the genetic footprint of fire use in our genes, but found that our prehistoric cousins - the Neanderthals - and even the great apes seem better at dealing with the toxins in smoke than modern humans.