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• A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’ News - 7 February 2025

  Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights and robots in surgery, for example. The children get to do activities. And ask questions: ‘How do you become a professor?’

• Human Rights Considerations in International Investment Law: A Theory of Harmonization Event - 7 May 2026

  PhD defence

• Peter Rodrigues ‘The boundaries for discrimination have shifted’ News - 11 January 2023

  The judicial authorities are looking into the possibilities for prosecution for the slogans that were projected on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on New Year’s Eve. Not an easy task, according to legal experts. When do we consider something to be ‘discrimination’?

• Simone van der Hof joins Special Group on Code of Conduct for age-appropriate design News - 28 August 2023

  Simone van der Hof, professor of Law and Digital Technology at eLaw, has joined the EU Special Group on Code of Conduct for age-appropriate design as an expert.

• Anouk Goemans receives National Youth Care Award 2025 News - 27 January 2026

  Professor by Special Appointment Anouk Goemans has received the National Youth Care Award 2025 from the ‘Stichting Steunfonds Pro Juventute’. The cash prize of €30,000 will go towards her research on youth care and youth protection.

• Collective Human Rights as an (Onto)Logical Solution to Climate Change Event - 16 October 2025

  PhD defence

• application: A critical reflection on child safeguarding from a children's rights perspective Event - 15 April 2025

  PhD defence

• Alumna Mojan Samadi: ‘Femicide is not about the perpetrator’s motive’ News - 14 October 2025

  Mojan Samadi obtained her PhD in 2020 in Leiden and has since remained at the university as an assistant professor. Her research currently focuses on gender and criminal law, with a key question being how criminal law should address femicide.

• Why International Women’s Day still matters: insights from three experts News - 5 March 2026

  The Netherlands is known globally for being a champion of equality. But is it really? On 8 March, International Women's Day, three Leiden experts reflect on this year's national theme: #NietMijnRecht (#NotMyRight)

• Scientists: analyse corona problems with young people themselves News - 30 April 2021

  On 30 April, Prime Minister Mark Rutte was presented with the manifesto of the NWO Youth Challenge, which contains advice for policymakers, scientists and administrators on the empowerment of youth in the time of coronavirus. The manifesto is based on research questions submitted to the science community…

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  Carolien Jacobs Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.i.m.jacobs@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277517

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  Benthe van Delft PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.j.van.delft@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Klaassen Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.a.k.klaassen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277420

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  Valerie Frissen Professor by special appointment Digital Technologies and Social Change

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  v.a.j.frissen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Danny Mekic External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  d.mekic@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Dona Sanduni Wickramasinghe PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  d.s.d.wickramasinghe@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cushla Donaldson PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.j.donaldson@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Faiz Rahman PhD candidate / contract

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  f.rahman@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Somayeh Djafari External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  somie.djafari@gmail.com | 071 5275200

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  Hanneke Lankveld External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  h.a.lankveld@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lianne Otten PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.a.otten@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Skylar Joseph PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.s.joseph@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria-Lucia Rebrean PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.l.rebrean@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ahlam el Barnoussi-el Mhamdi PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.el.barnoussi@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eva Schmidt Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.p.schmidt@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nada Heddane PhD Candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  n.heddane@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Heleen van Amerongen Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  n.h.van.amerongen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marina den Houdijker External Chairman Board of Appeal for Examinations and External Chairman Committee for Appeals and O

  Administration and Central Services

  f.m.j.den.houdijker@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278118

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  Mies Grijns Guest postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.grijns@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Camille Lefebvre External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.l.lefebvre@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Julia Rootenberg Ph.D. fellow

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.m.rootenberg@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Sanne Verwasch PhD candidate self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.e.a.verwasch@law.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Francien Dechesne Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  f.dechesne@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277608

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  Andjelka Petreski External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.petreski@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275200

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  Ymre Schuurmans Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  y.e.schuurmans@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Janine Ubink Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.m.ubink@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277493

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  Bibi van den Berg Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  b.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Bart Schermer Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.w.schermer@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  André van der Laan Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.m.van.der.laan@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gerrit-Jan Zwenne Professor Law and Digital technologies

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.j.zwenne@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Santy Kouwagam Postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.u.kouwagam@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Nikki Vosters PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  n.d.vosters@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Meijers Lecture and New Year’s Reception: starting the new year full of enthusiasm and inspiration! News - 21 January 2025

  In traditional style, 2025 was ushered in at our faculty with the Meijers Lecture followed by the New Year's Reception. On Thursday 16 January 2025, the Meijers Lecture took place in the Lorentz Lecture Hall where the Meijers Prizes and the Van Wersch Springplank Prize were also awarded. At the New…

• New commission investigates Russia's crimes of aggression against Ukraine News - 11 July 2023

  Can Russia be prosecuted for war crimes against Ukraine? The International Criminal Court does not have this jurisdiction. To fill this void in jurisdiction, a new commission has been created: an International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression, the ICPA.

• Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories News - 19 December 2022

  Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…

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  Mohammed Raiz Shaffique PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.r.shaffique@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Carlotta Rigotti Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.rigotti@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Marie Schwed Shenker PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.schwed.shenker@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gavin Robinson Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.l.robinson@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Chloe Gros Postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.n.gros@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727