1,406 search results for “human rights law” in the Staff website
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What rights do donors have?
Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will advance research into the law and ethics of regenerative medicine.
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join The Young Academy (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) KNAW)).
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ali Mohammad
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lawson elected member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
In November 2020 former dean Rick Lawson, professor of European Human Rights Law, was elected member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna. He was nominated by the Dutch Government following an open selection procedure.
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Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Clementine Breedveld-de Voogd
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Students from Colombia win Children’s Rights Moot Court 2021
The team from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) came out on top at the international online Moot Court organised by Leiden University and law firm Baker McKenzie.
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Elsemieke Daalder
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Iris Wuisman
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gert-Jan Boon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mariëlle Bruning: coronavirus measures and pressure on children’s rights
Children are suffering disproportionally from the coronavirus measures. They feel depressed more often compared to other age groups. But what about the legal perspective? Are children’s rights being violated?
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Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights
Salvador Santino Regilme, Jr. Associate Professor of International Relations and Program Chair of MA in International Relations, has been honored with the Cecil B. Currey Book Award for 2023. The accolade, presented by the Association for Global South Studies (AGSS), recognizes Regilme’s exceptional…
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Hins: Intimidating journalists undermines democracy based on the rule of law
Angry politicians, angry journalists: the initiative of Forum for Democracy politician Gideon van Meijeren during which he secretly filmed a reporter portraying them as a ‘sewer rat’, caused a lot of anger. Where does all this commotion come from? Wouter Hins: ‘Calling a journalist a "sewer rat" is…
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alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Alumna Jolien Schukking has been working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since 2017. In this special role, she provides legal protection at an international level in major cases and concerning various topics. What is her job like and what motivates her?
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Jonathan Huijts
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Timo Slootweg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Pablo Mendes De Leon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marijke Veerman
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Reijer Passchier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hetty de Rooij
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aad Rozendal
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Joris van de Riet
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Reeda Al Sabri Halawi
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henk Snijders
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anke van der Hoeven
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marco Romagna
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Laurens van Apeldoorn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Monique de Deugd-Dijkman
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Yuan Yi Zhu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rajneesh Phokeer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vestert Borger
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hakan Külcü
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerrit-Jan Zwenne
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association
Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He won for his paper “Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines,”…
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Julian Steinke
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Professor Ann Skelton appointed as Children’s Rights Chair at Leiden University
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed South African Professor Ann Skelton as the new Chair of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World as of 1 October 2022.
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Leiden students advise the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
On Wednesday 18 May, the students of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights presented their work to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with the aim to provide recommendations on how to make its decision more accessible to children.
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Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
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New commission investigates Russia's crimes of aggression against Ukraine
Can Russia be prosecuted for war crimes against Ukraine? The International Criminal Court does not have this jurisdiction. To fill this void in jurisdiction, a new commission has been created: an International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression, the ICPA.
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Harold Koster
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay
In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a period of many years. Helen Duffy, Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and also Zubaydah’s lawyer, recently booked a major victory…
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Shopkeepers who refuse entry to unvaccinated people are within their rights'
Immediately after the Dutch government’s press conference about the new coronavirus measures, a shopkeeper in Eindhoven hung up a notice in his window saying ‘No vaccination: no entry’. Even though he is not enforcing his own rule, he is receiving threats.
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KOG and Old University Library part of Amnesty International’s Rightswalk Leiden
Human Rights organisation Amnesty International recently set up a walk that passes by important locations in Leiden in relation to human rights. The Kamerlingh Onnes Building, home to Leiden Law School, has been included in the route.
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Viola Schmid
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mélie Louys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Femke Reidsma
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ieke de Vries
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid