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The Nuance Project: Respectful dialogue about sensitive topics give students hope 21 November 2024Students from Leiden University have launched The Nuance Project, a platform for respectful, open-minded dialogue on divisive issues. The aim is to fo...
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Court deems unacceptable behaviour by professor likely, ruling on dismissal request postponed 21 November 2024It is sufficiently plausible that the professor from the Faculty of Archaeology exhibited the ‘inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour’ detailed in t...
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Archaeologist Tom Hazenberg seeks the frontiers of the Roman Empire 18 November 2024From Roman ships to the ‘Gordon’ cavalry mask. Alumnus Tom Hazenberg was involved in spectacular finds that put the Dutch frontiers of the Roman Empir...
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UNICEF Student Team Leiden: ‘We all have our own role to play here at Leiden University’ 18 November 202420 November 2024 is World Children's Day. To mark this occasion, the UNICEF Student Team Leiden is organising a lecture on children's rights. We spoke...
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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’ 18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Clemens Bakker wins Moot Court trophy 15 November 2024The Moot Court trophy has been awarded for the fourteenth time! This time, it went to the best pleader in the spring of the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Leiden University and African Child Policy Forum hold ‘ground-breaking’ workshop on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and human rights in Africa 15 November 2024Pretoria, South Africa, October 26, 2024 — Leiden Law School in partnership with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Child Policy Forum ...
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Live blog: Alternative demonstrations in Leiden and The Hague against government cuts 14 November 2024Alternative demonstrations were held in Leiden and The Hague on Thursday 14 November after the national protest in Utrecht was cancelled. Leiden Unive...
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Join the protest against the higher education cuts 13 November 2024Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a...
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Menu of activating teaching methods: are you using it? 13 November 2024Earlier this year, we proudly presented the menu of activating teaching methods. Are you using it yet? We want to encourage you to apply activating te...
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Looking back: graduation ceremony for Leiden Law School bachelor’s students 12 November 2024On 7 and 8 November, we celebrated a special milestone during the graduation ceremony for the bachelor’s students in Law, Notarial Law, Tax Law and Cr...
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Flash interview with alumnus Willemijn de Best, who secured major music stars as clients 12 November 2024Willemijn de Best’s career path led her to the media sector. Besides the more obvious legal professions, a degree in law actually offers many other po...
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1575th student receives Honours College certificate 11 November 2024On the eve of Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, the 1574th and 1575th Honours College students received their honours certificates. In a crowded ...
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Alumnus Heidi Burrows: ‘Children are inherently vulnerable’ 04 November 2024What is it like to study law in the Netherlands as an international? Alumnus Heidi Burrows came to the Netherlands from the UK to study International ...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague 04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...