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

Title research: Exploring reparations within transitional justice framework that target systematic violations of children's rights to identity in the context of family separation.

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Title research: Accountability for Migrant Death Cases: Tragedies of the Central Mediterranean

Hanneke is an external PhD candidate at eLaw. She performs research on the use of digital technologies for biodiversity monitoring with use case in Europe.

Somayeh Djafari is a scientist innovator at the TNO’s Strategy & Analytics Policy department. She is specialised in datafication, digitalisation, general administrative law, human rights and European Law. Her research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector.

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Leiden University no longer wishes to collaborate with fossil fuel partners that are not demonstrably committed to achieving the Paris Agreement targets. Exceptions will be made only if a collaboration demonstrably contributes to the energy transition. This proposal by the Executive Board was discussed…

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.

On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.

Medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden trappen maandag 10 maart de estafettestaking af van de Nederlandse universiteiten tegen de kabinetsbezuinigingen.

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?’

Annelies van Vark is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute. Working title: 'Defending liberal democracy: the role of the armed forces in stabilizing liberal democracy in Western Europe.'

email: c.m.g.tremblay.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl Working title ‘The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on International Criminal Law since 1991'. Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre.

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:…

How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.