A surprising amount of life grows, crawls and flutters around Leiden University’s buildings. During the Biodiversity Challenge – from 30 April to 2 Ju...

Injections can be a source of stress and anxiety for children. The Willem-Alexander Children’s Hospital is exploring ways to improve the experience. T...

Protest is a human right and an important way to hold the authorities to account. But how does the right to protest relate to academic freedom and the...

Leiden University is announcing its approach for sensitive collaboration with external partners. This has been prompted by the ongoing, troubling situ...

It was the seventeenth time the Moot Court Challenge Cup had been awarded! This time for the best pleader in the autumn term of the 2025–2026 academic...

Sport brings people together. This became clear on 9 April during the official opening of the new University Sports Centre. In a varied programme with...

Which law governs the Strait of Hormuz? Under international law, both Iran and the US are expected to comply with the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. I...

‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...

On 2 April, the final of the Legal Tech Challenge 2026 took place in the Academy Building of Leiden University. During the final, teams of students pi...

Over the course of eight weeks, twelve law students spent several days at the various sectors of the Court of The Hague where they learned all about t...

Criminal law can reinforce social inequality. ‘People at the lower end of society are hit harder by criminal law in a range of different ways’, says P...

What’s it like being a student member on the Faculty Council and why should students get involved? Casper Gilsing, a student member since September 20...

A group of Leiden students launched the Van Leiden tot Later (From Leiden to Later) media platform on 27 March. In podcasts and videos, they talk with...

With the six pieces of the puzzle now assembled by the partners of the University Campus and the Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, the building at th...

Alumnus Robert van Asten has been an MP for D66 since 2025. He studied Tax Law at Leiden University from 1997 to 2005. After a career in that field, h...