The Australian Research Council funded a truly ‘global archaeology’ project comparing the archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice Age.

The April 2025 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 62, no. 2 is now available online.

The August 2019 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 4 is now available online.

The April 2022 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 59 No. 2 is now available online.

'Een nieuw commentaar op de Grondwet' is the title of a book published this week. The book uses 35 essays to describe the importance of the Constitution to the Dutch democratic rule of law.

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.

The August 2021 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 58 No. 4 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,…

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

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.’

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.

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.

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.

The January issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 1, 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 October 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 5 is now available online.

The August issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 4 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 August 2024 issue of the CML Rev., vol. 61, no. 4 is now available online.

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

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

Marileen Dogterom, Professor bionanoscience in Delft and Professor molecular physics in Leiden, will take a seat at the KNAW board as of June 1st. She is appointed for four years, one day per week. Dogterom succeeds Nobel Prize winner Ben Feringa, who completed his term.

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…

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…

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

The February issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 56 No. 1 is now available online.

With the use of big data, Leiden University is aiming to develop a system that sends automatic alerts when certain Industrial parts are starting to wear out. Researchers of the the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are developing a predictive maintenance platform together with, among…

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

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

The April 2023 issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 60 No. 2 is now available online.

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

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

The October issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 5 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.

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

The February issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 55 No. 1 is now available online.

The October issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 5 is now available online.

The April issue of the CML Rev., Vol. 54 No. 2, 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…

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…