This course explains the functions of each international court and tribunal in The Hague. On the basis of cases and interviews with judges and lawyers, this course explores the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice.

A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning, experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study, Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the life cycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish…

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

Atherosclerosis is the most important underlying process that drives cardiovascular disease, and is characterized by an accumulation of cholesterol which triggers an inflammatory response in the vessel wall.

Timo Slootweg, associate professor at he department Philosophy of Law, published a chapter about Paul Scholten in

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Niet alleen in Nederland, maar ook in het buitenland onderzoekt de Universiteit Leiden biodiversiteit, om natuurbescherming te verbeteren. Dat gebeurt in samenwerking met lokale universiteiten. Ook onderwijs staat hoog op de agenda.

Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

The explosive radiation and diversification of the advanced snakes (superfamily Colubroidea) was associated with changes in all aspects of the shared venom system. Morphological changes included the partitioning of the mixed ancestral glands into two discrete glands devoted for production of venom ormucous…

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of organic acids and enzymes producing large amounts of spent fungal biomass.

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Promotor: J.M. Memelink

De negende Network Europe Conference in Edinburgh werd in juni 2017 gehouden en was georganiseerd door het Europa Instituut in Zurich.

Oda van Cranenburgh, politicoloog verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden, blogt over Afrika's problemen met democratie.

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

In this thesis, the focus lies on studying glucocorticoid receptor dynamics in living cells with the aim of understanding how this transcription factor finds its DNA target sites to regulate transcription.

Prof.dr. J. Memelink

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

This initiative is intended to support generative research collaborations between and among scholars located in different geographical regions who wish to pursue focused, joint projects in any area of the study of religion.

Het is tijd voor een nieuwe blik op de historische band tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika. De nieuwe generatie van born-frees – kinderen geboren na de apartheid – heeft net zo makkelijk kritiek op het ANC, de bevrijdingspartij van Nelson Mandela, als op de koloniale machthebbers.

In dit artikel onderzochten Annemiek de Looze en Eefje Cuppen empirisch of en hoe sociaal conflict leidt tot institutionele verandering.

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…

Op 23 januari 2020 verdedigde Paula Kemp haar proefschrift 'Enforced performance of commercial sales contracts in the Netherlands, Singapore and China'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr.dr. H.B. Krans en prof.mr.dr. M.H. Wissink (RU Groningen).

Dit onderzoek richt zich op een historisch-sociale analyse van een geselecteerd corpus van romans uit de moderne Turkse literatuur die het thema delen van de migratie van Anatolische steden en dorpen naar Istanbul en de strijd van immigranten in deze stad tegen verschillende uitsluitingsmechanismen.

Josien de Klerk en Tennessee Miller onderzochten de interactie tussen de ziekte- en herstelervaringen van studenten en de academische werkcultuur in deze context.

The findings in this thesis improve the understanding of 1) the relationship between exposure characteristics and toxicity of ENPs, 2) the joint toxic action of ENP mixtures and the comparison to metal salt mixtures, 3) how NOM affects the individual and joint toxicity of ENPs, 4) the extent of trophic…

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

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Op 9 juni 2020 verdedigde Maral Darouei haar proefschrift 'Managing a sustainable career in the contemporary world of work: Personal choices and contextual challenges'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. J.I. van der Rest.

Laatste technologische ontwikkelingen op het gebied van datamining en profilering.

Dit artikel geeft een diepgaande analyse van de wisselwerking tussen zionisme, joodse identiteit, machtsdynamiek en het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict.

Op 3 september promoveert Adrian Stenton. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Adrian!

The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.