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The Enforcement of European Union Law
How to explain the apparent high success rates of the EU infringement procedures, which are the major tools for enforcing EU law, against the member states?
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy?
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
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Unravelling prehistoric fire use: ‘Variation in fire conditions equals variation in human behaviour’
Building a fire involves many variables, such as size, choice of fuel, temperature, and burn time, that affect the way the generated heat can be used, and therefore the potential function of a fire. A group of Leiden archaeologists are, together with a team of international colleagues, investigating…
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Neolithic house goes up in flames
Leiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them understand present and future finds.
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Martina Revello LamiFaculty of Archaeology
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The Power of Evidence unravelled in new research programme
Governments and public sector organisations consider evidence-based or evidence-informed policymaking as one of the pillars of good governance. That is to say: policies that are informed by scientific knowledge, expertise and evidence. In the research programme 'Power of Evidence', Valérie Pattyn and…
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New research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…
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‘Heart rate and skin conductance predict romantic attraction’
Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some people and not with others. This is the result of research by psychologist Eliska Prochazkova from the Leiden Institute for Brain and Recognition, which…
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These are the five Leiden highlights of ICT.OPEN
The ICT.OPEN conference had no less than five Leiden highlights. PhD candidate Anna Louise Latour won the pitch prize of 500 euros and PhD candidate Can Wang won the second prize in the Commit2Data poster competition. In addition, Professor Holger Hoos gave the keynote lecture on the first day and Suzan…
- Making your data FAIR at Leiden University, when and how to get started
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In the Making #10: Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
Arts and culture
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The Radical Party and the Making of Kemalism (1901-1939)
PhD defence
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Katharina NatterFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Irma Mosquera ValderramaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Bram KlievinkFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Csilla ArieseFaculty of Humanities
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Eric CezneAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Annemieke VerbaasFaculty of Archaeology
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Henning BasoldFaculty of Science
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When and Why People Do Not Make Financial Decisions: Definition, Measurement, and Implications of Financial Inertia
PhD defence
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Verticality, Agronomic Turn, and the Making of Colonial Botany in the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Clinical Decision-Making for Treatment of Shoulder Pain and Motion Syndromes
PhD defence
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Voices of experience in periviable decision-making and artificial placenta technology
PhD defence
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Making Concentric Circles: The Performative Aspects of Sufi Devotional Practices and Modes of Constructing a Reality
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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City on a Lake: Particular Environments and Global Paradigms in the Making of Mexico City
Lecture
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Skeletal Muscle in a Dish Towards making skeletal muscle in vitro
PhD defence
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Towards improving quality of the evidence base for medical decision- making
PhD defence
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Driving EU policy: Making rules for the European car industry in times of crisis
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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MOOC Public Administration one of the best courses 2020
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘EU policy and implementation: making Europe work!’ of Public Administration is included in the list of Class Central of the best courses in 2020.
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Engaging with climate diplomacy: Lessons from Dutch UNFCCC Negotiators
Discover the unique Vital Interests course in the BSc Security Studies programme, featuring an inspiring session on climate diplomacy with Dutch UNFCCC negotiators.
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Iron Age canoeing
In 2005 Leiden's municipal archaeologists excavated a 2,700-year-old canoe dug out from a tree trunk. Researchers from Material Culture Studies are now building a reproduction of this vessel using replicas of Iron Age tools. The researchers are hoping to gain a better understanding of the building p…
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Melanie Fink Presents on 'Good Administration in the Age of AI' at the European Ombudsman
On 26 June 2025, Melanie Fink delivered a presentation titled 'Good Administration in the Age of AI: Explanation Rights and Human Oversight under EU Law' at the European Ombudsman.
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Children’s services need better data collection: ‘How can we prevent out-of-home placements?’
What reduces the likelihood of children being taken into care? Anouk Goemans calls for data-driven systems, alongside attention to the stories behind the numbers.
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25-year prison sentence for complicity in honour killing
Four men have been sentenced to 25 years in jail for murdering a female relative. Jeroen ten Voorde, Professor of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law, spoke to ‘Trouw’ newspaper about the court ruling: ‘They're all considered perpetrators under criminal law.’
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Maiden voyage of prehistoric dug out canoe replica
After 30 days of work, the experimental reconstruction of the iron age canoe of Vlaardingen Vergulde Hand is finished! Its maiden voyage will take place on Friday the 16th of February when it will be paddled for the first time by schoolchildren from Vlaardingen.
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Book published on rewriting children’s rights judgments
Recently, Hart Publishing published the book Rewriting Children’s Rights Judgments, From Academic Vision to New Practice edited by H. Stalford, K. Hollingsworth and S. Gilmore.
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Is it right for judges to engage in politics?
The Dutch State is set to challenge The Hague Court of Appeal's ruling that the Netherlands must stop exporting arms to Israel at the Supreme Court. The government believes that foreign policy falls within the political domain and not within the judiciary. Geerten Boogaard, Professor of Constitutional…
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In the Making #9: Eloquence of the Ineffable — The aftermath of the 2018 opera La Tragedia di Claudio M
Arts and culture
- Masterclass: Why did Pope Gregory the Great make churches give up property? (Roy Flechner, University College Dublin)
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Clinical Reasoning by Pharmacists Fostering Clinical Decision-Making and Interprofessional Collaboration in Pharmacy Practice and Education
PhD defence
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas HankemeierFaculty of Science
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Cisca HoogendijkFaculty of Humanities
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Frank ChouraquiFaculty of Humanities
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Hao WangFaculty of Science