Giulia Pinzauti has broad experience in public international law, international criminal law and the law and practice of international courts and tribunals. Prior to joining the Grotius Centre, she served as an associate legal officer at the International Court of Justice (2015-2016) and in the Office…

Title research: States' Obligations under International Humanitarian Law to Address, Prevent or Deter Arms Transfers.

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…

Title research: Contours, Operation and Impact of a Jus Post Bellum.

Daniel is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. He is Academic Coordinator of the Advanced LLM on International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration and Director of the Leiden International Administrative Law Clinic.

Title research: Redefining Complementarity as a Tool of Relational Coordination between the ICC and the Criminal Chamber of the African Court of Human Rights and Justice.

Title research: Concurrence of private law and criminal law in Classical Roman law

Title research: The Status of Arbitrator: An Evolutionary Approach.

Title research: Influence of International Courts and Tribunals

Fé de Jonge has been a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies since November 2020, before which she was a PhD candidate at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London since September 2018. Her research focuses on the critical examination and re-examination…

Eva is part of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies as an Education and Research Associate. She completed her LL.B. European Law School at the Radboud University Nijmegen with bene meritum distinction, after which she spent some time working as a project manager working with various human…

Jens Iverson is an assistant professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, (Law Faculty, Leiden University) a position he has held since 2014.

Sophie Starrenburg is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her work broadly focuses on the intersections between public international law and cultural heritage. Currently, her research concentrates on cultural heritages…

Title research: State Responses to the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Phenomenon in Syria and Iraq: Exploring International Law’s Position Towards ‘Buck-Passing’ Policies.

Title research: Compensation for climate losses and damage under international law.

Title research: Invisible Victims: Rethinking Victimhood and Agency in Cyber-Enabled Money Muling

Merel Cornax is promovendus at the Business Studies department of Leiden Law School. In her research she focuses on themes at the intersection of organizational psychology and labor law. For her dissertation she conducts empirical-legal research on the responsibility for psychosocial wellbeing in the…

People from the Dutch islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius say that violence (mainly verbal) is fairly common in families. This is according to research by Leiden University, the University of Curaçao and UNICEF Netherlands. The researchers make recommendations for preventing such violence over…

Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2025

Assistant Professor Daan Weggemans researches contemporary and digital security, cybercrime, extremism and conceptual thinking at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA).

During Consent is Key Week, we’re exploring ways to eliminate sexual violence within our university community. We spoke to Assistant Professor Mischa Dekker, who specialises in gender-related violence, about how to prevent unacceptable behaviour among students and staff.

‘The system is failing’, ‘the goals are only being achieved to a limited extent’, ‘we’re letting children down’. These are some of the newspaper headlines that followed the publication of a report by researchers from Leiden University in September. Commissioned by the Dutch Research and Documentation…

As eLaw Postdoc researcher exploring the multiple intersections between law, gender, and technology, Carlotta Rigotti has recently participated in a groundbreaking international workshop focused on combatting image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) at the CAIS premises in Bochum, Germany.

The 16-year-old girl was staying in a closed juvenile care institution where, among other things, she was administered 'pain stimuli'. The charges are the first of their kind, says Mariëlle Bruning, Professor of Children and the Law, to Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant.

Carlotta Rigotti was invited by the Council of Europe to provide an overview of online and technology-facilitated violence at the Moroccan Parliament, as part of the joint programme 'Support for the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and the Development of the Role of Parliament in the…

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.