News
- Staff Changes
- Dr. Ward Berenschot is the new postdoc researcher in the Access to Justice in Indonesia Project. Ward is the successor of Jaap Timmer who has left VVI as per january, 1 2010.
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- Léon Buskens appointed on Chair Law and Culture in Muslim Societies
- Dr. Léon Buskens has been appointed as professor of Law and Culture in Muslim Societies, both at the Faculties of Humanities and of Law, as from August 2009.
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- Benjamin van Rooij leaves VVI
- Dr. Benjamin van Rooij is leaving VVI following his appointment at the University of Amsterdam as full professor of Chinese law and regulation at the beginning of the academic year 2009/2010.
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- KNAW/NWO grant for interdisciplinary research program on alternative biofuel crop
- KNAW and NWO’s program “Agriculture beyond Food” selected Van Vollenhoven Institute's (VVI) five-year research program on the promising alternative biofuel crop Jatropha curcas for funding. The VVI will concentrate on the socio-legal aspects of the Jatropha sector in Indonesia.
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- Vacancy Ph.D. position, Socio-legal studies in "JARAK: the commoditization of an alternative biofuel crop in Indonesia" at the Van Vollenhoven Institute
- Title PhD project: "Claims and facts on land, water and environment: socio-legal issues in jatropha cultivations in Eastern Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and Central Kalimantan"
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- Rubicon Grant for Nadia Sonneveld
- Dr. Nadia Sonneveld will go for 13 months to the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Nadia will conduct research on the implementation of Islamic law in the courts of Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia.
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