Rutger Leukfeldt holds the special chair of Governing Cybercrime, established and managed by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Rutger's education and research focuses on the human factor in cybercrime. Who are the perpetrators, what are their crime scripts?…

Title research: Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Continuity or Normative Evolution?

Title research: Language and definition at the International Criminal Court.

Sze Hong Lam has been an internal PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies of the Leiden University since August 2021. He had formerly interned at the Legal Office of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Office of the Prosecutor of the United…

Title research: The Right to Protest of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers under International Law.

María Manuela Márquez Velásquez is a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. The title of her research is: Charismatic Leadership: Role and Impact on Accountability Under International Criminal Law.

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

Title research: lnvestigating lnternat¡onal Crimes: Lessons from lnternational Practice , ICTY, ICC)

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: Vetting in Transition.

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

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for Law

Leiden University alumni and PhD graduates can continue to use library facilities free of charge.

Professor Ton Liefaard is Full Professor of Children’s Rights and Head of the Department of Child Law and Health Law. He has held the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden University since 2012. Ton Liefaard served as Vice Dean of Leiden Law School between 2018 and 2023.

As people spend ever more time in cyberspace, so do criminals. The more reliant we become on digital technology, the more vulnerable we are to hackers, surveillance, and cybercrime. The past decade has made clear that cybercrime does not only affect individuals and organizations, but that nation states,…

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Asmaa Khadim is a postdoctoral researcher in Institutions for Conflict Resolution, a research project implemented as part of the Dutch national sector plan for law at Leiden Law School. Her research centres around environmental constitutionalism, with a primary focus on comparative constitutional law,…

Leonor Alvarez Francés is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History that specializes in transnational history and digital tools for research in cultural history.

De Universiteit Leiden is al 25 jaar stevig geworteld in Den Haag. Dat werd zichtbaar tijdens de feestelijke bijeenkomst rondom de foto-expositie Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag: Onderzoekers van de stad.

On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia.

Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November how dangerous exclusion is.

Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Gender and Women’s studies of Japan

Ariadne Schmidt is professor by special appointment of the History of urban culture, in particular of Leiden (the Magdalena Moons Chair, funded by the Magdalena Moons Chair Foundation) and associate professor Economic and Social History. She is also Chair of Education of the bachelor, master and research…

The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works and even cookbooks. Is there still some space on your summer reading list? Take a look at the list below and borrow your book through the UBL.

Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Politics and International Relations of Japan

The democratic legal order can only function optimally if there is sufficient trust between citizens and government. Citizens must be able to trust that rules and procedures are observed and that legal protection is guaranteed for everyone at all times and everywhere. This trust has been seriously damaged…