Dr Benjamyn I. Scott is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Air and Space Law, and at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies.

Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?

Since April 2022, Floor has been affiliated with the Institute of Private Law as a Ph.D. candidate.

Professor Castermans has been a Professor of Private Law at the Institute for Private Law since 1 September 2007.

Food security touches upon human rights, international law and sustainable development. These frameworks are not separate worlds but deeply interconnected; something that becomes painfully clear in times of climate crisis, armed conflict and inequality.

Dr Jason Rudall is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, where he also serves as Co-Director of Teaching at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and Academic Coordinator of the Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law. His research spans public international…

In recent years, much research has been conducted at the Department of Labour Law on the topic of sustainability and fundamental labour rights. Linked to this field is a journal: the International Labor Rights Case Law Journal (ILaRC).

The Faculty Board has appointed Professor Ymre Schuurmans as Academic Director of the Institute of Public Law. Schuurmans is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law and was Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law for the past six years.

Esther Kentin is lecturer at the Department Moot Court and Advocacy of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2004. She also runs the Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic.

Valentin Vandendaele graduated from the Faculty of Law at the KU Leuven (2016). He also studied at the Faculty of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain within the framework of the Erasmus Belgica Program. He obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School as well (2017). During his studies, he received…

Jan Crijns (1978) is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University. From 15 February 2024, he holds the position of Vice Dean of Leiden Law School.

Nieke Verschaeren is an external PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Jacco Snoeijer is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Elina van 't Zand is working as Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Sjoerd Lopik is a research fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology. He has been affiliated with Leiden University since 2020, where he obtained his PhD in 2025 with a dissertation on the role of criminal law within the legal response to climate change. His research primarily focuses on…

Douae Youssef joined the Institute for Private Law's Department of Child Law in February 2023.

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.

From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.

Leiden University hosted the 47th Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, which took place between 30 May and 1 June 2024.

The Advisory Committee on Public International Law (Dutch abbreviation CAVV) is an independent body which provides the government and parliament of the Netherlands with advice, both solicited and unsolicited, on issues related to public international law.

Monique de Deugd-Dijkman joined the Institute of Private Law on 1 May 1998.

Luísa Pinto e Netto is an assistant professor at Leiden University specialized in fundamental rights, with a particular focus on social rights. Following her career as a state attorney in Brazil and a PhD on the development of fundamental rights, she is building a research agenda in the Netherlands…