NewsIn this lecture professor Harding considers the implications of Asia's 21st-century rise for its legal systems and our approaches to studying them in the new situation we confront in the early 21st century.
From July 2 until July 27 the 50th edition of the Columbia Summer Program will be held at the Law Faculty of Leiden University. The program is entirely taught by professors of the Columbia Law School ( New York), and is designed to provide a general introduction to the American legal system for lawyers and other (legal) professionals, or (graduate) students.
The Leiden Law School proudly presents the new Leiden Law Blog. More then 50 researchers are poised to give their views on current events. The authors, all specialists in fields of law and criminology, are blogging in English. Their aim is to reach a worldwide audience.
Leiden Law School recently welcomed Dr Anthony Caprio (ABA representative and President of Western New England University) who visited us on behalf of the American Bar Association, for the accreditiation of our Leiden Law Courses. Meri Maffet, Director International and Graduate Programs of the University of California Hastings (College of Law), one of Leiden Law School's ABA accredited partner universities, accompanied him.
The aim of this one-year full-time English taught master's programme in Criminal Justice is to equip its graduates with an advanced understanding of criminal justice by providing a multidisciplinary programme addressing key institutions, processes and cross-national issues on crime (prevention), law and policy.
‘The right to relate – on the importance of “orientation” in comparative sexual orientation law’ is the title of the inaugural lecture that Kees Waaldijk, professor of Comparative Sexual Orientation Law, will be giving on 20 April 2012.
A thousand and one nights cannot make us forget the third International Air Law Moot Court took place from 16 to 18 March 2012 in Istanbul. Since 2010 the International Air Law Moot Court is organised yearly by the International Institute of Air and Space Law of Leiden University Law School and the Sarin Legal Foundation from India.
On 20 February 2012, a team of five students represented Leiden University in the national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the largest mooting competition in the world.
On 27 and 28 January 2012, the first conference of the ‘postgraduate and early professionals and academics’ (PEPA) network took place in Hamburg.
From January until April 2012 Michiel van Emmerik will be visiting professor at the Hastings College of the Law, University of California in San Francisco.
At the age of 84, founding father of the Columbia-Leiden-Amsterdam Summer Program in American Law (1963), professor Hans Smit, passed away.
The Celebration of the Dies Natalis takes place today at 15:00 hrs in the Pieterskerk, Pieterskerkhof 1A in Leiden. There will be a live video broadcast of the ceremony, and a simultaneous translation will be provided in English.
On 19 and 20 January 2012 Leiden University will host an international legal expert meeting on the allocation of limited authorisations and grants in the European member states.
On Saturday 10 December – international human rights day – Leiden Law School welcomed Mr Jean-Paul Costa, former President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Mr Costa delivered the first Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture on Human Rights. His lecture was entitled: “The current challenges facing the European Court of Human Rights.”
Gustaaf Reering wil defend his thesis: Tenure security for Indonesia's urban poor. A socio-legal study on land, decentralisation and the rule of law in Bandung
Tristam Moeliono will defend his thesis: Spatial Management in Indonesia: From Planning to Implementation. Cases from West Java and Bandung. A socio-legal study
On Saturday 10 December – international human rights day – Mr Jean-Paul Costa, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights 1998-2011, President of the Court from 19 January 2007 to 3 November 2011, will deliver the first Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture on Human Rights at Leiden Law School.
On 25 November 2011 VVI hosted twenty Indonesian legislative drafters as part of a Nuffic-NESO course, organised by the Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC).
On 1 and 2 December a Conference on European State Aid Law will take place at Leiden University. The two-day event, organised by EStALI and LEGSA , wil be dedicated to the latest developments in European State aid law. The programme includes presentations on current issues, intensive workshops on specific topics in small groups of experts and of course excellent networking opportunities.
One-third of all planes used in the commercial aviation sector are not owned by the airline, but are leased. International Air and Space Law specialist Donal Hanley investigated the complex legal aspects of such lease contracts. Defence on 24 November.
