Nico Schrijver professor emeritus in Public Law and State councillor at the Council of State has been appointed by the European Union and the United Kingdom as a member of the Arbitration Panel which is authorised to settle disputes on the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement.

Overview of the CML reports

Femke is a third-year student of Dutch Language and Culture. She was a board member for a year, did an internship in times of COVID-19, and above all has a passion for her mother tongue.

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Managers in the public and semi-public sector work in an increasingly complex and unpredictable environment, which demands new knowledge and competences but also offers tremendous opportunities. This will be the view presented by Zeger van der Wal, professor by special appointment in Public Administration,…

Andrew de la Haije is Director of the Dutch branch of Xebia Consultancy Services, an internationally operating consultancy agency that coaches companies through digital transformation. He followed the executive master’s programme in Cyber Security and graduated with distinction.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have adopted wide-ranging legal and political measures to support Ukraine in its struggle.

PhD defence

Inaugural lecture

PhD defence

Vegetarian cafés/ Vegetarische cafés

On Thursday 20 October 2016, the 2nd annual Common Market Law Review conference “Crossing Europe’s Borders - New approaches to migration in European law

Not a straight road in sight, but instead a route through buildings, alleyways and gardens that aren't usually open to the public. As in previous years, the KLM Urban Trail took the entrants to the prettiest spots in The Hague. And this year, it took them right through our Wijnhaven building.

How should we deal with the post-corona phase? In a video (in Dutch) for the Association of Public Administration, Erwin Muller, Professor of Safety, Security and Law at Leiden University and former vice-chair of the Dutch Safety Board, reflects on the recovery phase and the corona crisis.

New PhD opportunity at University of Amsterdam in 'Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones'. Deadline for application: 15 April 2025

On Friday 23 September 2016 the Leiden Complex Networks Network day, the LCN2 day, will take place in Leiden.

The faculty introduction morning was held on Tuesday 31 August as part of the University’s OWL activities. Our new international exchange, master’s and advanced master’s students from more than 50 countries were welcomed to the faculty.

On Wednesday 12 May Dr Ian Buruma held the bi-annual Geremek lecture, entitled “The borders of the West”.

NETWORKS, a new consortium of 11 researchers from the University of Amsterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, Leiden University and CWI aims to address the pressing challenges posed by large-scale networks using stochastics and algorithms.

The Faculty of Humanities has nominated Alexandra Nagel with her research thesis for the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prizes 2021. The Prize focuses on the humanities, social sciences and law.

LAPP students Emily den Boer and Louise Floris, together with Esther Kentin, wrote about the proposal for a plastic bottle deposit return system that has been discussed in the Dutch Parliament in April 2019.

Adv. LL.M. Students visit the International Criminal Court

Chin-hui Lin MA, staff member in the department of Chinese Studies, has won the Faculty Teaching Prize this year. The prize consists of a certificate and 1000 euros.

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Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has acquired a rare manuscript map of Suriname. The map from 1830 is almost 2.5 meters long and is highly detailed. It was hand-drawn by Helmuth Hendrik Hiemcke (1808-1858), one of the official surveyors employed by the colonial administration, and shows Suriname in…

Valedictory lecture

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Valedictory lecture

Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.

Valedictory lecture

Inaugural lecture

Valedictory lecture

New research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in Indonesia), to be released at the end of October, historian Gert Oostindie draws the same conclusions using different sources. He presents new findings…

After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity and ahead to the new offensive.

Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’

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From assistance in the event of natural disasters to peace-keeping missions. As a communication adviser, Leonoor van Poelgeest goes to all those destinations where the Royal Navy are active. Why did she choose this work and how has her Public Administration study helped her?

At almost midway through, the “Stoeplanten” (Pavement Plants) citizen science project has been very successful. This research was initiated by Nienke Beets, who while working for the Science Communication and Society research group and Hortus Botanicus, gave her contribution to the Stoeplanten proje…

‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as he heard from a number of Leiden researchers, this is contingent upon a firm disciplinary basis. A novelty of this year’s celebration was a joint dies…

How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.

Lugduno Batava Praesidium Libertatis adalah slogan Universitas Leiden dalam bahasa Latin yang kurang lebih bermakna "Leiden adalah bastion kebebasan". Universitas yang didirikan pada tahun 1575 ini adalah "tropi" yang diberikan oleh Willem van Oranye karena jasa masyarakat Leiden membebaskan kota tersebut…

November marks exactly 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. To celebrate this special discovery, the Faculty of Humanities, together with various parties, is organising the 'Month of Tutankhamun': a month full of activities around Egypt's most legendary pharaoh.

Before founding their American colony, the Pilgrim Fathers first lived in Leiden in the early 17th century. This group has no fewer than nine American presidents among its descendants. The University played an important role in the Pilgrims’ life in Leiden.

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Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.