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Winners announced of 2025 Children’s Rights Moot Court Competition 17 April 2025How can we safeguard children’s rights in conflict zones? The winners of the 2025 Children’s Rights Moot Court Competition, team 19 from O.P. Jindal G...
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Elke Moons appointed professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Crime Statistics’ at Leiden University 16 April 2025As of 1 April 2025, Professor E.A.L.M.G (Elke) Moons has been appointed professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Crime Statistics’ at Leiden Uni...
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Career Days launch ‘Don’t just focus on success’ 16 April 2025‘Health, happiness and productivity. The focus is mainly on the latter, but to create a sustainable career you need all three.’ These were the words o...
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts 15 April 2025The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Kimberley Roewen wins Moot Court trophy 15 April 2025The Moot Court trophy has been awarded for the fifteenth time! This time it went to the best oralist in the spring of academic year 2024-2025.
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Kiem grants: submit a project proposal for interdisciplinary collaboration! 14 April 2025Through Kiem, Leiden University is providing 25 annual seed grants between 2024 and 2026 to develop new interdisciplinary (interfaculty) teaching/rese...
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LLB students take centre stage at their graduation ceremony 14 April 2025On 11 April, we marked an important milestone for our LLB students who celebrated at their graduation ceremony.
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Claim that Executive Board agreed to join 11 April discussion is incorrect 10 April 2025End Fossil, Open Leiden and Students for Palestine incorrectly claim that a meeting will be held with the Executive Board on Friday 11 April. This sta...
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Four burning questions for four inspiring international alumni 10 April 2025Last week on Monday evening, four international Leiden Law School alumni working in various sectors and areas of expertise came back to their alma mat...
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Cybercrisis under control: Leiden University takes part in national exercise 08 April 2025How should universities respond to a cybercrisis such as a DDoS attack or data breach? Leiden University participated in a national crisis exercise wi...
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Field trip to sustainable farm shows ‘what you can achieve if you chart your own path’ 08 April 2025How to take ownership of your career? To find out, students from ‘Design Your Career as a Climate Change Maker’ visited a farmer who has done just tha...
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Masterclass at the Court of The Hague: ‘The best way to learn all about the court’ 07 April 2025As part of the course 'Masterclass at the Court of The Hague', twelve law students spent several days at the court with judges, court lawyers and lega...
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‘It’s worse than I thought; it’s affecting all of us’ 04 April 2025How can the academic world best handle the new political reality in the United States? This is the question that managers, lecturers, researchers and ...
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Patchwork of police checks across Schengen area 04 April 2025The Schengen countries officially abolished border controls, but checks actually still exist. Maartje van der Woude has written a book about these vei...
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism 03 April 2025Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role i...