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.
On Monday 11 June 2012, Léon Buskens will accept his professorship "Law and Culture in Muslim Societies" at Leiden University by delivering his inaugural lecture, entitled: "What is sharia? A plea for an anthropology of the ordinary". The lecture will be in Dutch. Time: 16.15 hrs. Location: Academy Building, Groot Auditorium (Rapenburg 73, Leiden).
The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development currently has as vacancy for a Postdoctoral Researcher on Access to Justice and Institutional Development in Libya (30,4-38 hours per week)