Hall of Fame Leiden Law School staff 2023
Lots of employees celebrated special successes in 2023. Here’s a list of all those scholarships, awards and honours.
Grants
- Horizon Europe grant for research on the Future of the Labour Market led by Olaf van Vliet
- Starter grants awarded to Ard Barends, Elina van ’t Zand, Amalia Campos Delgado, Mark Klaassen, Matt Canfield, Danielle Chevalier, Marion Collewet, Henrik Vrijburg, Simona Demkova, Daniel Mândrescu, Ron Diris, Egbert Jongen, Linda Geven, Marianne Lochs, Jan de Keijser, Jan Crijns, Michael Klos, Gelijn Molier, Martijn Nouwen, Annemarie Drahmann, Misha Plagis, Daniel Peat, Jessie Pool, Niek Strohmaier, Benjamin Scott, Gitta Veldt, Joep Steegmans, Bo Terpstra, Eduard Suari Andreu, Philippe van Gruisen, Ieke de Vries, Babette van Hazebroek, Hilde Woker and Jason RudallKNAW grant for Philippe van Gruisen for interdisciplinary research on labour migration
- NWO grant for Maartje van der Woude for research on ethno-racial profiling
- Meijers PhD positions granted to Heleen Andriessen, Matthijs Appelman, Robbert Bruggeman, Elias Tissandier-Nasom and Joni van Laeken
- Netherlands Science Agenda grant for research involving Hilde Wermink and Arjen Blokland on strengthening mutual trust between agencies in criminal justice system and youth with migration background or weaker socioeconomic positions
- Veni grant for Richard Karlsson Linnér for research on accuracy of preventive genetic testing
- Veni grant for Ieke de Vries for research on prevention of harmful social environments among potential victims of sexual exploitation as means of prevention
- Veni grant for Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida for research on responses to climate change in weak rule-of-law environments in order to protect land rights of most vulnerable
- Comenius teaching award for Max van Lent for development and implementation of First Generation Students track to reduce inequality of opportunity
Awards & Prizes
- Meijers prizes for best published articles awarded to Linsa Ansems, Charlotte Vrendenbarg, Hilde Woker, Asmaa Khadim, Martijn Nouwen, Jordy Meekes, Gert Jan Geertjes and Simona Demková
- Gert Jan Geertjes awarded Van Wersch Springplank Prize for academic publication in field of medical, pharmaceutical and legal research
- Tirza Cramwinckel wins 2023 Research Prize awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for her PhD dissertation
- Carsten Stahn in Best Scientists ranking for 2023
- Linda Geven wins Gratama Science Prize 2023 for research on false confessions
- Barend Barentsen wins Best Lecturer of Academic Year 22-23 teaching award
- Annemarie Drahmann wins Best In-house Lecturer of the Leiden Law Academy teaching award
- Ekaterina Pannebakker wins first prize in UNIDROIT and Sustainable Development Essay Competition
- Floris Tan wins Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2023 for Best Dissertation
Special appointments
- Ann Skelton elected Chair of United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Luc Verhey appointed member of Dutch Council of State
- Ann Skelton awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Strathclyde
- Peter Rodrigues appointed deputy member of Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
- Maartje van der Woude member of new Academic Advisory Board for the Police
- Alumna Claire Achmad appointed Aotearoa New Zealand’s Chief Children’s Commissioner
- Fatma Çapkurt appointed deputy chair of State Committee on Rule of Law
Please tell us if you know someone (or you are someone!) who should be included in this list and isn’t.
Professorial appointments
- Branda Katan appointed Professor by Special Appointment in Corporate Litigation
- Bart Joosen appointed Professor of Financial Law
- Michiel Tjepkema appointed Professor at Open University
- Daniëlla Dam-de Jong appointed Professor of International Sustainable Development Law
- Freya Baetens appointed Professor of EU External Economic Law
- André van der Laan appointed Professor by Special Appointment of Juvenile and Adolescent Crime
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