Luisella Caon is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Bastiaan Rijpkema is a legal philosopher and lawyer. He is professor of Jurisprudence at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary study of the law (Faculty of Law), where he holds the chair in Jurisprudence, with a specialisation in Theory and Methods of Law in an Interdisciplinary Context.

Els Kindt is since september 2016 a visiting Associate Professor and Researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies.

Andjelka Petreski is since January 2010 connected to eLaw - Center for Law and Digitital Technologies, as an external PhD candidate.

Jelle Nijland joined the Institute of Private Law in June 2016.

In March 2020, Kimia Heidary joined Leiden Law School's Department of Business Studies to begin her PhD research on online price discrimination. Before coming to Leiden University, Kimia obtained her bachelor's degree in Law at Utrecht University (2016), a master's degree in Persuasive Communication…

Tim van Lit is affiliated to the Van Vollenhoven Institute as external PhD candidate since April 2021.

Dr Csilla Ariese is temporarily filling in for Dr Mariana Françoco as leader of the ERC Starting Grant BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).

Arshad Muradin is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute and a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Titel research: Essay on Prudence: Hume, Kant and Aristotle on practical rationality.

Oliver M. Tuazon is an external PhD candidate at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, since October 2020.

Francien Dechesne is Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Technologies at eLaw. Next to her appointment at eLaw, she holds the endowed chair of “AI and Data for the Rule of Law” at Tilburg University.

Sara Brandellero is a University Lecturer in Brazilian Literature and Culture at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). Her teaching and research focus on Brazil, also in global perspective, especially in its connections with the Portuguese-speaking world, Europe and Latin America.…

Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

Wearing All Stars and ‘just’ a pair of jeans, with a backpack slung over his shoulder. It was an informal Friday afternoon with Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, at Wijnhaven. Perched on a desk, he took questions from students in the audience.

Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are confronted with these on a daily basis. A group that is often not included in research and the debate on racism is people of Asian descent. The Diversity…

Professor Dario Fazzi has been organising virtual exchanges for students with various American universities for a number of years. Now he has been awarded 400.000 euros from the Erasmus+ programme Cooperation Partnerships to further develop the virtual component of his teaching.

Ilios Willemars is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analysis and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Ilios works on placeholders, replacement, contagion, insurance, immunity, infrastructure, digitalization, the work of Franz Kafka, and animals that commit suicide.

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Felipe Colla de Amorim is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. His research investigates the role of Latin American actors in shaping the global order, as part of the Invisihist Project (“Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global…

Daniel Schade is a Lecturer in European Studies and International Relations at Leiden University. His research focuses on the European Union and its external relations regime, in particular.

Wouter Wagemakers is a specialist in Italian renaissance art and architecture, and lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. At Leiden University, he teaches a survey course on European renaissance art and architecture, 1300-1550; and co-teaches seminars about Rome, the Global Renaissance, and…

Sarah Nelson is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History, and works on the history of US empire, global governance, and decolonization.

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).