Rowie Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her research focuses on legal protection in cases involving collective or diffuse interests. From an interdisciplinary perspective, she examines the role of interest groups in the legal system and the position…

Title research: Access to Justice in Aceh: A Socio-legal Study of Family Disputes and The Limits of Redress.

Title research: Asylum and Refugee Law in Indonesia: A Socio-legal Perspective on Lawmaking and Discretionary Implementation of Law.

Paola D’anello is a PhD researcher at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden Law School. Her work is situated within the ERC-funded Data Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Food Systems (DIGIFOOD) project, where her research focuses on Colombia.

Michael Liu is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society.

Title research: In Pursuit of Belonging: The Dilemma of Afghans’ Integration in Iran

Title research: The Role of Partnerships in Supporting and Advancing the Corporate Responsibility to Respect human Rights in Supply Chains.

Title research: Does Dutch medical disciplinary law guard and promote the quality of health care, and if not, would there be an alternative?

Neha Gauhar is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute.

Title research: The Role of the Judiciary in the Abolition of Corporal Punishment: A Comparative Analysis of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

In a new essay for Ethics & International Affairs, Dr Henning Lahmann, Assistant Professor of International Law & Technology at eLaw, addresses the question whether states should resort to social media to warn a civilian population ahead of military operations.

When we think of ageism, we often think of discrimination against older adults. However, ageism occurs across the entire lifespan; in the tech world, for example, being "old" can start as early as 35. In this episode, Dr. Ittay Mannheim joins us to discuss the intersection of ageism, digital technology,…

PhD defence

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.

How do you ensure that students still learn anything when they can have AI write an entire thesis in a matter of minutes? Staff members from the Faculty of Humanities discussed this and other questions during a special AI symposium. ‘Writing and independent thinking are crucial, especially in our fi…

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. This day has been celebrated in the Netherlands since 1912, usually centring around a specific theme. This year’s theme: solidarity, the power for change.

In a recent interview with Maya Plentz for The Unbrief, Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, Leiden University, explored the intersection of AI-powered search technologies and privacy rights.

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Questions to a European and International Human Rights Law alumnus episode 1: Christina Azzarello.

International Women's Day 2025 - Seminar

The IHL Clinic offers outstanding LLM candidates the chance to work pro bono on KGF projects and gain practical experience in humanitarian law in cooperation with practitioners working in the humanitarian field.

Universiteit Leiden en Unicef werken al 10 jaar samen om kennis over kinderrechten uit te breiden en te verspreiden. Ze verlengen deze samenwerking.

Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at eLaw, was invited to speak at the third edition of the prestigious 'Privacy Symposium' in Venice on 11 June 2024.

Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…

Book talk

The LLM programme is proud to announce that former student Alice Walker, graduate of the ‘20 class, received the Lord Denning Scholarship offered by Lincoln’s Inn for 2021-2022.

How many children are waiting for help from youth services in the Netherlands at any given time? And exactly how long do they have to wait?

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Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

The chance that it will do so is about zero, but Russia is legally obliged to investigate violations of law during the war in Ukraine. States that enter into an armed conflict often deny liability, but under international humanitarian law and human rights they are obliged to investigate their military…