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• CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift Event - 5 July 2026

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• Jelle van Buuren Explains American Boogaloo Boys News - 10 March 2021

  A particular group of counter protesters have been sighted at numerous Black Lives Matter protests that were held in the United States. An extreme right movement known for its characteristic Hawaii Shirts and heavy weaponry that calls itself the Boogaloo Boys. Which is cause for concern among the American…

• Labor in Hard Times: Workers’ Legal Mobilization at the European Court of Human Rights Event - 28 April 2026

• Hoe kijken Nederlandse bedrijven naar online prijsdiscriminatie? Kimia Heidary, Bart Custers, Helen Pluut en Jean-Pierre van der Rest schreven News - 25 August 2022

  Hoe kijken Nederlandse bedrijven naar online prijsdiscriminatie? Kimia Heidary, Bart Custers, Helen Pluut en Jean-Pierre van der Rest schreven hier een artikel over.

• NWO Open Competition grant for two FGGA researchers News - 2 May 2023

  JSixty researchers have received a grant of approximately 50,000 Euros during round 3 of the NWO Open Competition SSH-XS pilot programme. Two of them are working at FGGA: Jolien van Breen and Honorata Mazepus. The sixty researchers received the grant to start working on a promising concept or an innovative…

• Symposium: Inzet van reviews na moord en doodslag in huiselijke kring Event - 31 January 2025

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• Research: Verbal abuse and clip around the ear common in Caribbean Netherlands families News - 11 November 2024

  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…

• Adjudicating Legal Pluralism in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy: The Challenge of Paradox Event - 14 May 2025

  Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2025

• Graig Klein awarded an ERC Starting Grant News - 5 September 2023

  Graig Klein, assistant professor at the Institute of Security of Global Affairs (ISGA), has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for his project TERGAP. With this 1.500.000 euro grant Klein and his research team will investigate terrorist groups’ decision-making and strategic…

• Almost € 3 million of funding for research on sexually transgressive behaviour News - 22 April 2025

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant of €2,858,000 from the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) for tackling sexually transgressive behaviour and sexual violence (SGOG). Mischa Dekker, assistant professor and member of the Violence and Violence Prevention research group, is a co-applicant…

• Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel News - 26 September 2022

  Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.

• Marieke Liem explains that the typical Hollywood serial killer image is not scienfically valid News - 16 November 2022

  In Belgium Radio 1, Marieke Liem (professor of Violence and Interventions) gives a scientific perspective on serial killers and explains the typical Hollywood image of serial killers is not in line with reality.

• Marieke Liem releases podcast NRT DOCS: Hotel met tralies News - 4 April 2022

  What does it mean to be in a Dutch prison? What is true about the prejudices about being in jail? Criminologist Marieke Liem has released a podcast on Dutch national broadcaster NPO Radio 1: Hotel met tralies.

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  Mamadou Hébié Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.hebie@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277554

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  Emre Acar PhD candidate / contract

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.acar@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arvind Pillai PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.pillai@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bojana Ristic PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.ristic@law.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Lianne Baars PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  l.p.baars@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Letizia Lo Giacco Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  l.lo.giacco@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Misha Plagis Guest researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.a.plagis@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Brian McGarry Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.k.mcgarry@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paula Baldini Miranda Da Cruz PhD candidate / guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  p.baldini.miranda.da.cruz@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lisa Reinsberg PhD candidate / self-funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  l.j.reinsberg@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marten van Harten PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.harten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Jayne Huckerby PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ahmed Elsayed PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.b.a.h.elsayed@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kseniia Soloveva PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  k.soloveva@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Franke Eleveld External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  f.h.eleveld@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jaco Engelbrecht PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.j.engelbrecht@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ana Cristina Rodriguez Pineda PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Marcin Weisbrot PhD candidate / self funded

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  Dave-Inder Comar External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  d.i.comar@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  María Manuela Márquez Velásquez PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.m.marquez.velasquez@law.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Jason Mr Cheung External PhD

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  Ocean Lam PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.h.lam@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Oguzhan Öztürk PhD candidate / contract

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  o.ozturk@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Giulia Pinzauti Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.pinzauti@law.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8008009

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  Daniel Peat Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  d.c.peat@law.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009914

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  Alfred van Staden Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.van.staden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eva te Dorsthorst PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.c.e.te.dorsthorst@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mette Léons Project Manager & Programme Coordinator Public International Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.k.c.leons@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274852

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  Raogo Toussaint Kima PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  r.t.kima@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paula Cortés González External PhD

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  p.o.cortes.gonzalez@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Social Resilience & Security: Yearbook 2021 - 2022 News - 19 October 2022

  With the start of the new academic year, the Social Resilience & Security programme proudly presents their yearbook. In the yearbook, you read about the programme’s interdisciplinary research building bridges between institutes, its educational activities such as the new Minor ‘Violence Studies’ and…

• Mental health

  The most common problem areas PhD students face are listed below, as well as how one can begin to fix these problems.

• How can we make unacceptable behaviour a man’s issue? News - 27 October 2025

  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 PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023 News - 20 December 2023

  The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…

• Conference on final evaluation of Dutch Child Protection Act: 'Give children a voice’ News - 24 January 2023

  ‘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…

• Carlotta Rigotti participates in international workshop on image-based sexual abuse News - 26 March 2024

  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.

• Girl brings charges of child abuse by youth care facility News - 18 October 2023

  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.