Op donderdag 29 november 2018 brachten LLP tutorgroep 27 en 28 een werkbezoek aan advocatenkantoor Pels Rijcken in Den Haag. LLP staat voor Leiden Law Practices en is een verplicht onderdeel van het studieprogramma voor eerstejaars rechtenstudenten.

De Universiteit Leiden heeft een samenwerkingsverband met de rechtbank Den Haag. In dit verband heeft Annemarie Drahmann op 21 mei jl. een lezing gegeven aan rechters en juridisch medewerkers van de rechtbank over de verdeling van schaarse vergunningen.

The monograph

Is er te veel vriendjespolitiek in Brussel? Wordt er te veel besloten in achterkamertjes? Deze discussie is in alle volledigheid losgebarsten in Brussel na de benoeming van Martin Selmayr als secretaris-generaal, de hoogste ambtenaar bij de Europese Commissie.

Op woensdag 3 april jl. organiseerde de vaste Kamercommissie voor Binnenlandse Zaken een rondetafelgesprek over het uitdaagrecht (ook wel het 'Right to Challenge' genoemd). Dit uitdaagrecht houdt in dat burgers het recht zouden krijgen om een gemeentelijke taak zelf uit te voeren als zij dat beter k…

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Op vrijdag 16 februari wordt het boek "Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550)", geschreven door Andrea van Leerdam, bij de KB gepresenteerd. De presentatie is gratis en voor iedereen toegankelijk. Wel is het nodig om te…

Op donderdag 31 oktober 2019 vonden de diploma-uitreikingen plaats van de opleidingen van het Instituut Bestuurskunde. Het was voor het eerst dat deze festiviteiten aan de Campus Den Haag plaats vonden.

Datatechnologie is macht. Op z’n minst economische macht, maar vaak ook politieke macht.

Since its beginnings, Leiden University has been home to scholars with a broad and diverse expertise in the histories, languages, literatures and material cultures relevant to the study of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to modern times.

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is the principal enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). MAGL inhibition provides several potential therapeutic opportunities, including anti-nociceptive, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity.

Metal-based prodrugs based on ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes have proven to be very suitable for application in both photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photo-activated chemotherapy (PACT).

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…

The prevalence of obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) has increased rapidly over the recent years, not only in adults, but also in children and adolescents.

In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

In the last decades, activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has emerged as a powerful chemical tool that may aid the ever-challenging drug discovery process.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, K. Belabas (University of Bordeaux)

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Increasing the efficiency of gene targeting (GT) as a genome editing tool in plants has been an important goal in plant biotechnology.

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

Cholesterol influences many pathways, including serving as precursor for adrenal steroidogenesis. Imbalance of cholesterol levels has been implicated in several diseases including cardiovascular diseases and its underlying pathology, atherosclerosis.

Possible improvements for the assessment of abiotic depletion in LCA.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

The PID-directed shift in PIN polarity has been broadly accepted as one of the essential mechanisms for the regulation of auxin transport polarity.

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Dr. Pauline Aarten gaat op zoek naar welke impact een verkeersongeval heeft op slachtoffers en nabestaanden en hoe we de positie van deze mensen kunnen verbeteren.

De Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) heeft een Russische hackoperatie voorkomen op de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens (OPCW) in Den Haag. Wetenschappers Paul Abels, Willemijn Aerdts, Constant Hijzen en Sergei Boeke van het Institute of Security and Global Affairs reageerden…

Het Europese actieplan heeft als hoofddoelstelling de Europese economie en de eenheidsmarkt versterkt te laten herrijzen uit de grootste recessie die de EU sinds haar ontstaan kent. Hiervoor wil de Europese Commissie 750 miljard euro (deels leningen en deels subsidie) beschikbaar stellen om de lidstaten…

This thesis has shed light on some of the ways in which the local electrolyte composition can differ from the bulk and how these changes in the local reaction environment can determine the activity and/or selectivity of two important electrocatalytic reactions, namely, electrochemical CO2 reduction…

The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.

M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: D.G.H. Hetterscheid

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

In this study the flows of PVC and its additives through the Swedish Society were followed from the cradle to the grave (from production to waste treatment).

Tuberculosis (TB) is associated with 1.5 million deaths annually. There is a need exists to optimize both current as well as novel antibiotic combination treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness and safety of treatments against TB.

Studievoorlichting

The Role and Effectiveness of the G20. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in The Changing Global Order onderdeel van the United Nations University Series on Regionalism book series, bespreekt auteur Jaroslaw Kantorowicz de evolutie van de G20.

Dit boek is de hoognodige herziening van ons begrip over publieke diplomatie. Het wil nieuwe manieren van denken stimuleren over wat wel een van de meest opmerkelijke recente ontwikkelingen genoemd kan worden in de diplomatieke praktijk. Een ontwikkeling die zowel mensen uit de praktijk als academici…

Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd op de website SAGE research methods, bespreken auteurs Jaroslaw Kantorowicz en Tobias M. Hlobil hoe een Regression Discontinuity Design uitgevoerd kan worden.

Verslag van een zoektocht naar regionale good practices voor rechtshandhaving en veiligheid in Caribisch Nederland.