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Human rights should help fight disinformation News - 6 May 2022
Professor of Media Law and Information Society Tarlach McGonagle is concerned about the increase in online disinformation and hate speech. He argues that human rights should guide new policies for the online world. McGonagle will give his inaugural lecture on 9 May.

René Cassin Thesis Prize in Human Rights for Aleydis Nissen News - 21 September 2021
Aleydis Nissen was awarded the René Cassin Thesis Prize 2021. The René Cassin Foundation - International Institute of Human Rights organises the competition. This Prize is awarded to the best PhD theses on human rights.

K-pop industry violates basic human rights News - 7 December 2022
Beneath the glittering surface image of K-pop idols lies the Dorian Grey-like heart of an industry that abuses and discards its trainees and stars. It is a system of absolute power, that will be unable to uphold its image of a positive global influence. According to Aleydis Nissen, researcher at Leiden…

Human Rights and Climate Change: Call for Abstracts News - 14 October 2021
On 27-28 January 2022, Leiden University’s interdisciplinary seed grant programme ‘Beyond Anthropocentric Interests and Values? Human Rights and Climate Change’ will host a conference on human rights and climate change. Researchers are welcome to join and contribute their view. The deadline for the…

Leiden Law hosted the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Toogdag News - 20 September 2022
The Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights Research Programme at Leiden Law School had the honor to organise the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research Annual Conference.

Nominations Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2023 Announcement - 19 April 2023
Education, Research

Katie Pentney wins Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2021 with master’s thesis News - 13 December 2021
The Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award is presented every two years on 10 December (Human Rights Day) in recognition of outstanding academic works in the field of international human rights.

Alumni Event Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law News - 17 March 2021
On March 16 students and alumni of the Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law were brought together in an online Zoom event organized by our programme coordinator, Mahshid Alizadeh, and head of the LLM, Rick Lawson.

Titia Loenen Professor of Human Rights and diversity
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights News - 14 March 2024
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…

begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights News - 30 November 2023
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.

Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association News - 16 January 2023
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,”…

Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law News - 10 October 2023
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.

Hans Franken Lecture by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe News - 5 July 2023
On June 30, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University organised the annual Hans Franken Lecture. This year the lecture was delivered by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe.

alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights News - 14 June 2023
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?

dedicated herself with heart and soul to Indonesian workers' and human rights News - 16 September 2022
Ratna Saptari is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has always been involved with issues of human rights and Indonesian workers' rights. This August she retired. But she won't sit still. She continues her voluntary work and wants to…

Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue News - 1 November 2023
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

Bill Schabas Professor emeritus International Criminal Law and Human Rights
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid