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• Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics: A comparative case study of the US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of Iran Research project

  What are the conditions under which coercive diplomacy can compel a State to abandon its controversial nuclear (weapons) program? Based on the experience of the US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of three countries, namely Iran, Libya and South Africa, Jean Yves Ndzana’s PhD research…

• economy of immigration and welfare state reform: a collection of comparative political and economic essays on human mobility and social protection Research output

  On 12 November, Clare Fenwick defended her doctoral thesis, The Political Economy of Immigration and Welfare State Reform: A Collection of Comparative Political and Economic Essays on Human Mobility and Social Protection. The PhD research was supervised by Olaf van Vliet and Kees Goudswaard.

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  Petr Kopecky Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Temporalities of energy justice: Changing justice conceptions in Dutch energy policy between 1974 and 2022 Research output

  This article describes that although the use of the concept of energy justice is new, normative interpretations have long been part of energy policy.

• First comparative textbook on East African Community law and EU law by Leiden University News - 11 April 2017

  Published by Brill Nijhoff and written by leading experts including national judges, academics and practitioners East African Community Law is the first comparative as well as open access textbook on EAC law. The book provides a key resource for the research, teaching, and practice of EAC law. It also…

• integration that works, also outside the EU: Two day international CompaRe conference News - 5 September 2023

  On the 31st August and 1st September 2023, CompaRe hosted a conference on “Smart and lean integration: finding regional solutions to global challenges” in Leiden University’s Campus The Hague.

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  Ingrid van Biezen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• presentations: Disability and inclusion in the medieval city: a comparative view between Europe and the Islamic World News - 3 April 2025

  On November 27-28 2025, the congress 'Disability and inclusion in the medieval city: a comparative view between Europe and the Islamic World' will be held at the university of Cantabaria, Spain. The deadline for submissions is 13 October, 2025

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  Christina Luise Toenshoff Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Matthew Sung Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sarthak Bagchi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maurijn van der Zee Associate professor

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  Brendan Carroll Assistant professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Armin Cuyvers Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Egbert Koops Professor of Legal History

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jiyan Ilbrink University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arco Timmermans Associate professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Alain Wijffels Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tobias van der Wal Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Frits van der Meer Professor emeritus

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• Fagan & Kopecký (eds), The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics Research output

  This handbook is aimed at a wide readership interested in developing an understanding of the political, economic, and social complexity of Eastern Europe. It covers Central Europe, the Baltic republics, South Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans, as well as all the countries of the former Soviet…

• Launch project of the Leiden centre for the legal and comparative study of the East African Community (LEAC) News - 21 May 2012

  With the economic surge in East Africa, the East African Community, formally founded in 1999 and now consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, is rapidly developing. A common market is being established, and a monetary union is under construction. The EAC thereby forms an important…

• Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies Research output

  This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.

• Academy Research Grant awarded to collaborative research design on comparing case law review method vs court file studies News - 16 October 2024

  Last Friday, during the ELS Academy Annual Event, Loran Kostense (VU), Sofia de Jong (Leiden University), Rieneke Stelma-Roorda (VU) and Anne Verboom (Leiden University) were awarded a €5000 research grant to carry out research on comparing the method of case law reviews versus court file studies. In…

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  Corinna Jentzsch Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Kees Waaldijk Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Kate Bellamy Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marieke Liem Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Beryl ter Haar participated a comparative research paper on the free movement of workers in the EU and EAU News - 12 February 2019

  On invitation by prof. Nikita Lyutov (Kutafin State Law University Moscow), Beryl ter Haar participated in a kick-off meeting on a comparative research paper on the free movement of workers within the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union held by Kutafin State Law University on the 24th of January 2019…

• Patterns of Politicization in 14 Democracies Research project

  Under what circumstances is politicization more likely to occur than others, and what impact does politicization have on government legitimacy and performance?

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  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Syntax of Being Different: How Human Language Expresses Otherness Research project

  This PhD project investigates what the universal and variable morphosyntactic properties of linguistic expressions of otherness are and how they can be modelled theoretically.

• Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach Research output

  This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.

• Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law Research project

  Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law

• The Hittite Inherited Lexicon Research output

  This dissertation attempts to describe the linguistic history of Hittite on the basis of a systematic etymological treatment of its entire inherited lexicon, precisely analyzing the phonological and morphological developments.

• The development of the Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Greek Research output

  Ancient Greek was spoken in a large number of different dialects. Although we do not find direct evidence for syllabic liquids in any of our sources, comparative evidence shows that these sounds must have been present in Proto-Greek, and that they were retained until comparatively recently in the prehistory…

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  Quintijn Mauer Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Christoph Niessen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Irma Mosquera Valderrama Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Asmaa Khadim

  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,…

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  Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Santy Kouwagam Postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Stefan Norbruis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jonathan London Associate professor Global Political Economy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Can Kurban Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Tilko Arne Swalve Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Thomas Scarff Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences