Vasiliki Kosta is Associate Professor of European Law at Leiden University. Her research is characterised by an interest in EU Fundamental Rights Law and more broadly in ‘horizontal’ issues, i.e. institutional and constitutional questions spanning different core policy areas of EU Law. She currenlty…

Dr. Kristof Gombeer is an Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute of the Leiden Law School. He researches in the field of human rights law and at the intersection between European law and public international law. He teaches in the bachelor's and master's programmes.

Titia Loenen is Professor 'emeritus' of Human Rights and Diversity at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Peter Rodrigues is Professor of Immigration Law of the University of Leiden.

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…

As of 1 May 2019, McGonagle holds the chair in Media Law & Information Society. The chair is financed by the A.W. Hins Fund, administered by the Leiden University Fund. Tarlach specializes in a range of issues relating to media law and the information society: freedom of expression; the interface between…

Sheila Varadan is an Assistant Professor of Children’s Rights and Global Health in a joint appointment with the Department of Health and Child Law and the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). Sheila is also part of the Leiden University Network for Health in Africa (LUNHA), an interdisciplinary research…

Wouter Hins is since July 2007 connected to eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies.

Jan-Peter Loof is affiliated to the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law since 1 July 2024.

Professor Kees Waaldijk was a staff member of the Grotius Centre since 1 May 2011, when he was appointed to Leiden University’s new sponsored chair in Comparative Sexual Orientation Law, which was financed through the Betsy Brouwer Fund at the Leiden University Fund (LUF). Since his retirement in…

John Dugard has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since 1998.

Helen Duffy is an experienced praticing international lawyer and has been Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Grotius Centre since January 2015.

Jelena Belic is an assistant professor of political philosophy at the Institute of Political Science and a co-director of the Center for Political Philosophy at Leiden University.

Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer has been Professor of International Humanitarian Law at Leiden Law School since 1997.

Gisela Hirschmann is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.

Thea Coventry has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since 2016, as a PhD candidate and lecturer.

Alan M. Sears is a lecturer and the academic coordinator of the Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies. He has been affiliated with eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies since April 2018.

Daniel C. Thomas is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

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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.

Dr Melanie Fink is Associate Professor of European Law at Leiden University. Her research explores the intersection of digital public administration and EU law from an individual rights perspective. She is particularly interested in administrative justice in the automated state, accountability and access…

Eamon T. Aloyo is Assistant Professor at ISGA, specialising in just war theory, Responsibility to Protect (R2P), human rights and international security at the intersection of political philosophy and international relations.

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.

Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. He published on the medieval state of Koryo, Korean historiography, Northeast Asia and North Korea, as well as literary translations from Korean…

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.