The Universities of Leiden and Tokyo jointly established a chair named after Professor Hisashi Owada in 2021.

On 24 May 2022, the universities of Tokyo and Leiden organized a rotating chair named after Professor Hisashi Owada. The Owada Chair focused on the interaction between international law and international relations in an interdisciplinary perspective. Dominique Moïsi, a professor at Kings College London…

Are international courts effective? Dr Fatou Bensouda, a former Lead Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC), will discuss this issue during her lecture at the Owada Symposium 2025. The ICC’s efficacy depends on the actions of its member states, she says.

The University of Tokyo hosted the 2024 edition of the Owada Chair. GTGC's Prof. dr. Jan Aart Scholte and Prof. dr. Eric De Brabandere attended the session in representation of Leiden University.

Chris Jacobs, former PhD-student of the IBL, received the national “Dissertation Award” for best PhD thesis of the year on insects. The award was handed out last Friday, the 18th of December, by Professor Matty Berg, president of the Dutch Entomological Society.

Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On 7 October, he received a certificate, a bronze statuette and ten thousand euros.

As part of the GTGC Lunch Seminars, Chris Wensink and Midas van Dijk presented their book 'Regionalizing Eurasia'. The COVID-19 pandemic restricted travel and placed free trade under scrutiny. Then, the war in Ukraine triggered unprecedented economic sanctions and severing of trade ties. By contrast,…

Hoe kan het dat universele mensenrechten wereldwijd niet hetzelfde in de praktijk worden gebracht?

Prof. Dominique Moïsi delivered his keynote address at the first Leiden University Owada Symposium on 24 May 2022

The fifth edition of the Owada Chair Symposium, that was held in Leiden on 14 and 15 October 2025, highlighted the law and politics of international criminal justice.

The annual Owada Chair symposium takes place alternately in Leiden and Tokyo.

The third Owada Chair Symposium on the subject of international human rights included an extended student debate together with Professor Owada and the keynote speaker, Professor Okafor.

On 16 January 2024, Professor Obiora Okafor from Johns Hopkins University opened the third cycle of the Owada Chair with the lecture Global Diversity and the Living International Human Rights Law.

The fifth Owada Chair Symposium included two sessions of student debate together with Professor Owada and the keynote speaker, Dr Fatou Bensouda.

The fifth Owada Chair Symposium provided an opportunity for new-generation researchers from the participating universities to present their ongoing work to each other.

The project has been done in the Biological Matter group under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. S.J.T. van Noort and Prof. dr. M.A.G.J. Orrit.The title of the presentation is: ''Characterization of Single Gold Nanorods with Two Photon Microscopy.

How can the LEGO® Serious Play® method contribute to improved interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of joint research proposals?

The Executive Committee consists of the following members:

How do laws and procedures for police vetting unfold in practice?

A plasma is an ionized gas with very low electrical resistivity. As such, magnetic field lines are 'frozen in' and move with the fluid. Magnetic field lines that are linked, knotted and tangled, cannot be undone by the fluid motions.

Members of this research group focus on the governance aspects of running an organisation and the relationship between business activities and sustainability.

The LED3 hub, consisting of researchers from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC), the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), is very excited to organize the “LED3 Lectures”. This lecture…

Recente publicaties in de Leidse handboekenreeks zullen hieronder verschijnen.

The research program of the QO group has three leading themes: Optical Physics, Quantum Optics, and Photon-Matter Interactions. We work mostly at the boundaries between these themes with entanglement as a bridging and binding agent.

In the Psychology Lab on Wheels, we conduct innovative research together with citizens. We drive our mobile lab to people all over the country helping to bridge the gap between science and society.

The Co-Align Conference 2023 will be held on 16 May 2023 at Leiden University.

Accurately recognising others’ emotions is a fundamental social skill, relevant for navigating the social world from early childhood. Children’s ability to do represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated with a number of important psychosocial outcomes. Many individual…

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Carl Li defended his thesis on 30 June 2015

Below you will find a collection of books, other than those in the BLRN book series, to which members of BLRN have contributed.

On 20 februari 2019, Chris van Oostrum defended his thesis 'Regres bij concernfinanciering'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. S.M. Bartman.

Read more about working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

Former PhD, Bachelor and Master students of the Van Exter Lab