This research evaluates the Youth Act. It will provide an overview of how the transition takes place, whether the transformation process develops in the right direction and whether the legal safeguards are functioning properly.

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

Campus The Hague welcomed a group of young professionals in honor of the celebration of 444 years of Leiden University.

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Prof. Benno F. Galjart, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University, has passed away last Wednesday, 10 February 2016, at the age of 82.

LUC The Hague celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2016 on Friday 1 July 2016 at the Royal Theatre (Koninklijke Schouwburg) in its home city – The Hague. Around 600 guests were present to witness the conferring of the degrees and ‘the turning of the tassel ceremony’ of the 143 (of a total 162)…

Michel Orrit was awarded the Physica prize 2016 for his groundbreaking work on single molecule spectroscopy.

On 14 May 2020, Pieter Rustenburg defended his thesis 'Een algemene normtheorie toegepast op open normen in het belastingrecht'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. A.O. Lubbers and Prof. J.L.M. Gribnau.

The International Conference on Artistic Research, organised by the Society for Artistic Research, will take place in The Hague on 28 & 29 April 2016.

The treasure houses of Leiden's University Library and Naturalis house wonderful historical collections with dried plants and botanical drawings. Tinde van Andel, extraordinary professor of History of botany and gardens, studies these collections.

Leiden University College The Hague is one of the best university colleges in the Netherlands

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) has awarded its 2016 John Ziman Award for ‘a significant innovative cooperation in a venture to promote public interaction with science and technology’ to the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics. This manifesto is led by Diana…

The Leiden Institute of Physics hosted the annual conference of the Dutch Vacuum Society (NEVAC). Experts in the field of vacuum experiments talked about their research. The 2016 NEVAC Prize was awarded to PhD student Martijn Vos from the TU Eindhoven.

De Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging (NBV) zoekt een studentbestuurslid voor het academisch jaar 2023-2024. Reageren kan tot en met 1 september 2023.

De Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging (NBV) zoekt een studentbestuurslid voor het academisch jaar 2022-2023. Deadline: 18 september 2022.

Art history lecturer Marion Boers was awarded the Humanities Education Award at the opening of the academic year this afternoon. Every year, the most inspiring teacher receives the award. The judges praised Boers for her enthusiasm and sense of humour.

The Leiden University’s Program for Cyber Norms, a research platform to investigate the development and implementation of law and policy applicable to uses of ICTs, in cooperation with the think-tank ICT4Peace conducted a global open consultation on how to implement the UN Group of Governmental Experts’…

IHL and Humanitarian Assistance in Contemporary Armed Conflicts against the Background of the Current Refugee Crisis

This spring the Netherlands holds the presidency of the European Union. Leiden Europe researchers have taken the opportunity to examine the future of the European Union and where appropriate to give advice. They will present their book on Friday 29 April in Nieuwspoort.

The third edition of the International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) has kicked off with a successful opening seminar at the Sterrewacht.

How do you depict the importance of the Humanities? In honour of the faculty's 444th anniversary, 25 Humanities students, alumni and employees sent in a variety of works of art inspired by the theme 'Humanities matter'. You can come to look at the works from 25 May to 28 August via an art route through…

Leiden team runner-up in the European Regional Round at the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court 2016!

This year, the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research ranks #21 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the institute ranks as the best in The Netherlands for the subject Pharmacy.

On early October, the Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights released its October Newsletter to its friends and partner networks.

This year, Leiden Law School ranks #24 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the faculty ranks as the best in the Netherlands for the subject Law.

On December 9, 2016 Prof.dr. Ton Koopman will give a lecture 'Bach en zijn zangers' in the Pieterskerk in Leiden.

The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) is pleased to invite you to the ISGA Conference ‘Who determines the security (research) agenda’ on 9 - 10 November 2016 in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Tuesday May 24th, the LACDR Annual Spring Symposium was held.

The publication by the group of Catherijne Knibbe was awarded the 2016 AAPS Pharmaceutical Research Meritorious Manuscript Award.

The masterstudents who participated in the International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP), received their honours certificate at the festive closing seminar on 11 June in the Old Observatory (Sterrewacht). Congratulations to our international students!

Bernard van Heck has won the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 for his Leiden PhD research on electrical circuits for quantum computers. On behalf of the KNAW, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science awards this prize annually to a researcher who has made an innovative contribution to scien…

Environmental scientist Alexander van Oudenhoven has been chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Faculty of Science. Vice Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl announced this during the faculty’s New Year’s Reception on 10 January. Biologist Changsheng Wu won the prize for best dissertation of 2016. Computer…

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Leiden University (Faculty of Science) will be offering a master's programme in Pharmacy from September 2016. The programme has been accredited by the NVAO.

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Centre for Science and Technology Studies

Every year, the Netherlands and Belgium Red Cross organize the Frits Kalshoven International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition, which brings together students from both Dutch and Belgian universities.

The Faculty of Humanities is known for its diversity of research fields which all engage in innovative and high-profile research. In the new edition of Perspectives on the World: Education and research within the Faculty of Humanities, students and academics elaborate on their academic prowess.