Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…

Prof. Andrea Evers is a health psychologist who studies the role of behavioural factors in health and disease. As a Medical Delta Professor, she is now affiliated with Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University. In that position, she conducts research at the intersection of various disciplines.…

On 22 May 2017 Dr Carolien Metselaar (54) will be appointed Secretary to the Executive Board / Director-General of the Administration and Central Services Department at Leiden University.

The February 2025 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 62, no. 1 is now available online.

The June 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 3 is now available online.

The June 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 3 is now available online.

Two Cleveringa books from Theo ten Kate's law library were donated to Leiden University by grandson Sebastiaan ten Kate on 24 November. They are the dissertations of W. Hugenholtz and J.G.L Röder, both PhD students of Rudolph Cleveringa. Ten Kate: 'The University is the right place for the books. Here,…

The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 3, is now available online.

The December issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 6 is now available online.

Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, will be present at our Faculty as a guest PhD researcher over the coming months.

Surrogacy has a long history, but the Netherlands lacks legislation around the subject. This is badly needed, university lecturers Kartica van der Zon and Daisy Smeets argue in Leidsch Dagblad: ‘We do not know what is happening abroad.’

The August issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 4 is now available online.

The February 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 1 is now available online.

The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 2 is now available online.

The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law has published an article by Christa Tobler, entitled ‚One of Many Challenges After ‚Brexit’. The Institutional Framework of an Alternative Agreement – Lessons from Switzerland and Elsewhere?’ (Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 23…

The January issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 1, is now available online.

The August 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 4 is now available online.

In September 2019, Manon Mulckhuyse will start a position as assistant professor in the Cognitive Psychology Unit.

The October 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 5 is now available online.

The December 2020 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 57 No. 6 is now available online.

The December 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 6 is now available online.

The October 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 5 is now available online.

The February 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 1 is now available online.

The August 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 4 is now available online.

The December 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 6 is now available online.

The February 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 1 is now available online.

On 6 April the Netherlands will vote on far-reaching cooperation with Ukraine. Referenda are exceptional in Dutch political history, according to Professor of Electoral Research Joop van Holsteijn.

The February 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 1 is now available online.

Merijn de Bakker and colleagues of the IBL-research group of Prof. Mike Richardson provide a unique view on digit evolution in crocodiles and birds in their recent study published in Nature.

Bradley Efron is a statistician from Stanford University best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques,…

The October 2022 issue of the Common Market Law Review, Vol. 59 No. 5, is now available online.

A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and…

Who determines what is wrong with children and how they develop? Educator and sociologist Annemieke van Drenth wrote a book about this that will be released on 10 June. In it, she uses the history of the school for ‘idiotic children’ in The Hague to investigate how special children were identified in…

The December issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 6 is now available online.

The June issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 3 is now available online.

On Sunday 15 September 'ICM Weekendschool Den Haag' (ICM Weekend School The Hague) gathered at the Wijnhaven location for the first time.

After the Summerbreak the Honours Class entitled The Sounding City will be offered, in collaboration with ACPA and the Science Faculty. The class instructors will be Prof. Marcel Cobussen and Edwin van der Heide. They state that one of their main objectives for this course is

The Scotsman Alan Jope is to succeed Paul Polman as CEO of Unilever, a clear sign in the eyes of Arco Timmermans, Professor Public Affairs by special appointment at Leiden University: ‘It seems to me that Unilever is moving with the market’s demands.’

Solafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leiden University, Leiden University of Applied Sciences and the Foundation for Refugee Students (UAF) that prepares young refugees to study. ‘I regained…

The December 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 6 is now available online.

Bernhard Rieger leaves University College in London to research European History after 1945 at Leiden University. He will start as professor of European History on January 15th 2018.

On Friday 13 July, fifty Philippine crocodiles (Crocodylus mindorensis) bred in captivity were released into a lake in the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park on the northern Philippine island of Luzon. Researchers at Leiden University are hoping this will help speed up the recovery of the crocodile…

The October issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 5 is now available online.

Through the use of artificial intelligence, the executive is gaining in efficiency. At the same time, however, the judiciary is trailing behind in the process of digitalisation. Is this a problem, and what can we do about it?

The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 2 is now available online.

The June 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 3 is now available online.

Editors are essential for publishing and thereby sharing research findings. They serve the scientific community by editing, leading the peer review process and ensuring a high quality of journal publications. Recently, several researchers from CML joined the Editorial Boards of international scientific…

The August 2022 issue of the Common Market Law Review, Vol. 59 No. 4, is now available online.

The August 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 4 is now available online.

The development of children and their personal academic growth as well as national academic growth programs are interesting topics in Dutch media. Recently media has covered how well equipped teenagers are to plan their homework activities and of course the PISA and TIMSS results that were revealed…