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Emil Arvid Wolff’s research focuses on the comparative political economy of inequality. Their current research explores the symbolic and legal boundaries of social citizenship in post-war Europe. The research forms part of the project Borders of Equality, which analyzes the relationship between the…

Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

Grotius Dialogue

Reijer Passchier (Haarlem, 28 August 1987) PhD LLM LLB (Leiden University) is an Assistant Professor in Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. He is also a Professor of Digitalisation and the Democratic Constitutional State at the Open University.

Dr. Isabella Brunner is assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and associate fellow at The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity. Having obtained her PhD in international law, her research focuses on questions of how international law applies to cyber operations,…

Conference

Allard de Graaf is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Public Administration.

Jeffrey Fynn-Paul is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Sandra Palmen studied tax law at Leiden University and built a career within central government, currently as State Secretary. She was one of the first to raise the alarm about the child benefits affair and is now righting the wrongs.

Meredith Sprengel is an External Ph.D. candidate at the Cognitive Psychology Unit at Leiden University under the supervision of Dr. Michiel van Elk and Dr. Aminata Bicego. Her Ph.D. research investigates the psychological, interpersonal, and contextual factors that shape altered states of consciousness…

John Sunday Ojo is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Intelligence in the Global South (GLOBALINT) research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research focuses on the political economy of armed conflict, concentrating on non-state armed groups, including both jihadist…

Jan-Peter Loof is affiliated to the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law since 1 July 2024.

Manuel Cabal is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Dario Fazzi is Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

In photosynthesis, sunlight is converted into the biochemical energy needed to power life and drive cellular processes. Anjali Pandit combines advanced spectroscopy and biochemical approaches to understand the structural mechanisms that regulate photosynthesis in atomic detail.

Professor Willemien den Ouden is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School and a Research Fellow of the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Scientific Research (one day a week). She is also a State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division at the Dutch Council…

Title of research: An Ounce of Prevention: How to Prevent International Crimes. Jennifer Schense is a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. She is researching the international obligation to prevent crimes and how that obligation may be fulfilled,…

The state, and specifically the idea of nationality, is almost all-determining in social life in the Netherlands. It determines how people identify, how we interact with each other, and what (in)equality in society looks like. However, ultimately, the idea that we can divide people into different nationalities…

Paul van Trigt is university lecturer social history. His research and teaching are concerned with histories of in- and exclusion of people in multiple contexts in the modern period and the role of concepts such as human rights, the welfare state, religion, disability, ethnicity in these histories.

Randal Sheppard is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

On 24 April 2025, political scientist Pawan Kumar Sen will defend his PhD dissertation, "Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012)," at Leiden University. His research examines how Nepal’s major political parties navigated key state restructuring reforms—republicanism,…

The rise of populist parties, the expansion of the role of the state and now the fragmentation of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Dutch political reality has changed rapidly over recent decades. These developments are in stark contrast to Dutch constitutional law that has remained almost…

Biologist Nataliia Machushynets felt like she was ‘looking for a needle in a haystack’, trying to find new antibiotics to help solve the problem of resistance. During her PhD research, she did find what she was looking for, in the soil beneath our feet.

Staff at Dutch youth care services sometimes put parents under pressure to cooperate 'voluntarily'. There are instances when children are removed from the home without the approval of the court. This may have some benefits from the perspective of the support services, but in legal circles there are…

Dr. Joana Cook is a graduate of King’s College London where she completed her MA and PhD in the Department of War Studies (BA University of Regina). Her research more broadly focuses on women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices. More recent scholarly interests…

Mohit Khubchandani is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. His topic is:

Kutsal Yesilkagit, Professor of International Governance at the Institute of Public Administration, has been appointed by Minister Bruins Slot of the Interior and Kingdom Relations as a member of the State Commission on the Rule of Law, which was established in November 2022.

Jeroen Duindam is Professor of Early Modern History at the Leiden University Institute for History.

The Guardian interviewed professor Marlou Schrover about the increasing number of trans refugees from the United States.