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Common Market Law Review Young Academics Prize 2023
The Common Market Law Review's 2023 Prize for Young Academics has been awarded to Friso Bostoen and David van Wamel for their co-authored article: ‘The Digital Markets Act: A Partial Solution to Antitrust’s Remedy Problem’. Their winning paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the Review.
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Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network 19-21 September
From 19 to 21 September, the Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network took place at the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) Leiden.
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Contribution to international book on enforcement of State aid law
In January 2020 the book “Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law”, edited by Ferdinand Wollenschläger, Wolfgang Wurmnest & Thomas M.J. Möllers, was published by Wolters Kluwer.
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Passchier and Voermans on fundamental rights in times of crisis
Fundamental rights protect citizens from the government, but they are not absolute. A crisis situation not only gives the government the opportunity to restrict freedoms, it also shows citizens how far it is willing to go in doing so. ‘In the [Dutch] cabinets led by Rutte, there seems to be less and…
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Call for papers 'Safeguarding children’s rights in immigration law'
On Friday 23 November 2018 the Institute of Immigration Law and the Department of Child Law (both Leiden University) will organize an international conference on ‘Safeguarding children’s rights in immigration law’ at Leiden Law School.
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Maartje van der Woude joins the Board of Trustees Law and Society Association
Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, has been elected, after a vote among the members of the Law and Society Association (LSA), as one of the eight ‘elected trustees’ to join the ‘Board of Trustees’ of the LSA.
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Farewell master's mentor Constitutional and Administrative Law
On Thursday 13 October 2022, the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law bid farewell to Elly van der Tang-van Loenen, for years the department's mentor for master’s students. Having enjoyed this position for many years, Elly is now retiring.
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at event organised by Dutch Competition Law Association
On 10 January, Ben Van Rompuy spoke at the New Year's meeting of the Dutch Competition Law Association in Amsterdam.
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Hendriks: Spanish euthanasia law important, but with teething problems
Earlier this year, Spain passed a law that legalises euthanasia and assisted suicide. Spain is now the fourth country in Europe with such a law. Its introduction, however, is not plain sailing.
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End of year event LL.M. European Law, June 2021
On the 2nd of June 2021, students of the LL.M. European Law program and staff of the Europa Institute got together to ‘celebrate’ the end of teaching in the academic year 2020/2021.
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Vincent Delhomme discusses sustainability in EU internal market law
The Farm to Fork Strategy seeks to transform the EU food system towards greater sustainability. To do this, Vincent Delhomme argues, some of the traditional concepts and doctrines in EU internal market law need to be challenged and rethought.
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Common Market Law Review Prize for Young Academics 2017
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that in 2017 there will be a Common Market Law Review Prize for an article submitted by a young academic.
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Common Market Law Review Prize for Young Academics 2021
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that in 2021 there will be a Common Market Law Review Prize for an article submitted by a young academic.
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Common Market Law Review Prize for Young Academics 2019
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that in 2019 there will be a Common Market Law Review Prize for an article submitted by a young academic.
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Looking back on the Law's pluralities conference in Giessen
From 6 to 9 May the Law's pluralities conference was held at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. Highly interdisciplinary in the areas of literature, art and law.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 3, is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The January issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 1, is now available online.
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New issue Common Market Law Review
The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 2, is now available online.
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Dan Saxon
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Esther Huiskers-Stoop
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maaike Kempes
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hanne Cuyckens
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gert Jan Geertjes
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan van Staalduinen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerrit Dijkstra
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Somayeh Djafari
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mason Marks
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lisa Ansems
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Linda Louis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mark Klaassen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maartje van der Woude on the advisory board of Oxford Law’s Border Criminologies
As of today, Maartje van der Woude (Professor of Sociology of Law, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society) has become a member of the advisory board for Oxford Law’s research platform Border Criminologies.
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Meuwese on new developments in Dutch cabinet’s response to child benefits scandal
In recent days and weeks, experts have been falling over themselves to point the finger at the main culprit in the Dutch child benefits scandal. Although this debate is fascinating, equally important are the broader lessons to be drawn from the scandal in relation to constitutional and administrative…
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Leiden University organises Moot Court Competition Administrative Law 2023
By tradition, the moot court competition of the 'Vereniging voor Bestuursrecht' (VAR, Dutch Administrative Law Association) takes place in May every year. This year, it was the honour of Leiden University to organise the event.
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Influence of European Union on 'our' national laws is increasing
How many of our laws in the Netherlands are actually determined by the European Union? In many areas, the influence of the EU has increased. But 80 per cent – a figure referred to in 1989 by then European Commission President Jacques Delors – is a very wide estimate. Research from around 15 years ago…
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Freya Baetens speaks at Uppsala Symposium on International Investment Law as a Field for Scholarly Research
On 3 June 2016, the Symposium on International Investment Law as a Field for Scholarly Research was organized by Uppsala University, together with the Nordic Network on Investment Law and the Swedish Institute of International Law.
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Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts. Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550)
The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.
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Research cooperation on transnational law with Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta to start this month
Late June EP Nuffic awarded a capacity building project in the field of Transnational Law, Asset Recovery and International Investment Arbitration at the Faculty of Law at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta. The successful consortium brings together experts from VU University Amsterdam, Leiden University…
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Apply for new diploma
A diploma is a valuable document that the University issues only once. If somebody loses his or her diploma, he or she can download a copy in the diploma register.
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Freya Baetens appointed to the Chair in EU External Economic Law
The Europa Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Freya Baetens to the Chair in EU External Economic Law.
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children’s rights and digital technologies’ organized by the Child Law Department
On Wednesday 12 December 2018, the department of Child Law, on the initiative of dr. Yannick van den Brink, dr. Stephanie Rap en prof. dr. Ton Liefaard), organized an expert meeting on ‘Equality, children’s rights and digital technologies’. The objective of the meeting was an in-depth exchange of ideas…
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Dynamics of the Syria Conflict: Challenges for Contemporary International Law
The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies & The Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law cordially invite you to a Panel Discussion on “The Dynamics of the Syria Conflict: Challenges for Contemporary International Law” .
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Maarten Aalbers presented on the application of EEA law to tax discrimination
Maarten Aalbers was invited as a guest speaker by the University of Bergen (Norway) to present his views on the joint application of state aid law and free movement law concerning the adoption of sugar taxes.
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Reijer Passchier: Alternatives need to be created for services of big tech companies
How can more people take ownership of technology? Underlying this question is the assumption that not enough people currently own technology. According to Reijer Passchier, Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law in Leiden, and Professor of Digitisation and the Democratic Rule of…
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Van Vollenhoven Staff Participate in Annual Law and Society Association Conference
Nine staff members of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society participated in the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) annual conference from 27-30 May. VVI staff presented ten conference papers, organised multiple sessions, as well as served as chairs and discussants for numerous…
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Decolonising International Justice
Around the world, there is a growing movement to decolonise university curricula, with both students and educators seeking to disrupt existing epistemic hierarchies within higher education. This research project aims to unravel what decolonising means in general and what it means for the International…
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V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946).
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What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya
What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya. In this article, published on the website SAGE Journals in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the authors Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, Eamon Aloyo examine the attitude towards international…
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Dimensions of Free Speech: An Exploration of a New Theoretical Framework
In ‘Dimensions of Free Speech’, Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analysing the major justifications for free speech. Kabasakal Badamchi argues for a justification: namely the double-grounded…
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Dissertation Prize European Law Faculties Association awarded to Vestert Borger
On Thursday 11 April, at its annual meeting in Turin, the European Law Faculties Association awarded its dissertation prize to Vestert Borger, assistant professor in European Law at the Europa Institute of Leiden University. The Association, founded in 1995, has as its aim to increase the quality of…
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Henning Lahmann
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid