Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by special appointment. How has his approach to AI changed in that time?

Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.

The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…

Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.

Jason Laffoon is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeological Science, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Sara Polak is a University Lecturer in American Studies and Modern English Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She is PI of the ERC Project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028.

Léon Buskens is an anthropologist studying law and culture in Muslim societies. One of his main research interests is how Muslims shape Islam in everyday life, in relation to other practices and to religious teachings. He has a longstanding interest in Morocco, and has more recently also started to…

Caroline Waerzeggers is Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University. She specializes in the history of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC, with a focus on imperial transformation under Neo-Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid rule. She is particularly interested in studying local responses to empire.…

Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’

On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.

Title research: The Evolving Privacy laws: How privacy laws adapt to high-paced social and technological change

Max Lenssen is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Azra Say-Ötün is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Simon van der Straten is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Lucy Ataro Opoka is since 1st September 2021, connected to Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School as a PhD Research Candidate.

Title research: Trafficking-Terrorism and the Gendering of National Security

Title research: A critical examination of the influence of the GDPR on selective provisions of the Sri Lankan PDPA

Title research: Seeking the Good: Recognition and the Will in Plato's Metaphysics

Samatar (Sam) Ahmed Botan is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Igor Djakovic is a PhD candidate in the Neanderthal Legacy research project.

Roeland Spruyt is affiliated to the departement of Jurisprudence since October 2022.

Eva Polman joined the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law as a Uytenbogaert PhD candidate in September 2022.

Benthe van Delft has been a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Department of Child and Health Law (Institute of Private Law) since September 2023. She conducts research into how the Halt intervention programme functions and relates to compliance with child rights in practice.

Priscilla Lam is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. As part of the Melody in Speech project, Priscilla’s research investigates the prosody of tone languages. She examines the interaction between tone and intonation systems with a focus on West African languages, namely…

Title research: A global framework to regulate non-state actors working with children.

Joris van de Riet is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence, where he is preparing a doctoral thesis on the relevance of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy to international law and international relations.

Title research: Asylum and Refugee Law in Indonesia: A Socio-legal Perspective on Lawmaking and Discretionary Implementation of Law.

Faiz Rahman is a PhD candidate at Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI). His PhD research focuses on the issues of public interest in data protection. The research will investigate how the public interest is designed and functions within the Indonesian data protection legal and institutional frameworks. His…

Li-Ru Hsu is an external PhD candidate at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies. She is connected to eLaw since September 2023. The title of her research is ‘Empowering Children with Disabilities in the Digital Era: Rights, Privacy, and Accessibility’. Her research is centered around protecting…

Asmaa Khadim is a postdoctoral researcher in Institutions for Conflict Resolution, a research project implemented as part of the Dutch national sector plan for law at Leiden Law School. Her research centres around environmental constitutionalism, with a primary focus on comparative constitutional law,…

Robbert Bruggeman is affiliated as a doctoral candidate (Meijers PhD candidate) with the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. His research focuses on the intersection of digitalization within executive agencies and the pursuit of People-Centred administrative law.…

Heleen Andriessen is a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Department of Social Law. Additionally, she is involved in teaching for the second-year bachelor course on Labor Law.