NewsOn the 9 April 2013 the Commonwealth IAL, Association of Legislative Counsel (CALC), the Korea Legislation Research Institute, the government of Angola and Leiden and VU University Amsterdam organized a joint workshop presided by professor Wim Voermans .
As of 1 May 2013, Hans-Martien ten Napel has been appointed Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he is also Research Fellow of the Leiden Law School. Since 2008, he has also been a senior researcher at the School of Human Rights Research.
The role of regulation in achieving legitimate rule is a topical issue that invites further discussion. To this end, the Leiden research profile area on Political Legitimacy has organized an international conference titled ‘Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation’ which will address the question whether the increase of regulations has helped or hindered the legitimacy of political systems, including modern democracies.
On 21 October, the working group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research organised a seminar on the topic Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Vehicles for Social Justice? The seminar was hosted by the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague. At the seminar, Ingrid discussed the socioeconomic dimension of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.
On 1 July 2011 the new Moroccan Constitution modified the legal framework for public power in the Kingdom of Morocco. As a result the rule of law and legal principles have been reinforced in the governance structure of Morocco.
During the 2012-2013 academic year professor Ferdinand Wollenschläger from Augsburg University will be a visiting professor within the Department of Constitutional and Administrative law at Leiden University.
On 16 September 2012 Josephine Hartmann gave a presentation during a panel session on compliance with EU law taking place within Sixth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics the at the University of Tampere, Finland.
This course forms part of the project Application of State aid law in national courts , which is subsidized by the European Commission and is carried out in several countries by the Leiden Expert Group on State Aid (LEGSA) in cooperation with the Riga Graduate School of Law and the University of Salzburg.
On July 4 and 5, the African Parliamentary Knowledge Network in collaboration with the Commonwealth Association for Parliamentary Council organized a conference in the South African parliament in Cape Town, South Africa.
On June 28 and 29 2012, the International Association for Law (IAL) held it’s biennial conference in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
On 31 May 2012 dr. Marga Groothuis and prof. dr. Wim Voermans presented a report on the Croatian Act on Access to Information.
The presentation took place during an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Religion and Civil Society. The Changing Faces of “Religion” and “Secularity”’ on 7th-8th June.
From 24 – 26 May 2012 a conference on Codification took place in Taipei, organized by the International Academy of Comparative Law .
On 26 and 27 March, professor Voermans was in China at the invitation of the Chinese parliament (National People’s Congres: NPC) to give a talk on the various ways countries in the world engage the public in the establishment of delegated legislation. As co-legislator, the NPC is involved in the establishment of parliamentary legislation, but this is not the case in delegated regulations.
The topic of the seminar was ‘the Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights’. It was organised by Prof. Janneke Gerards ( Nijmegen University) and Prof. Eva Brems (Ghent University).
On January 19 and 20 the Institute for Public Law of Leiden University, together with the VU University Amsterdam Centre for Law and Governance, organized an international expert meeting on the allocation of limited authorizations and grants in the European member states.
In February 2012 Ymre Schuurmans attended the first Winter School in Methods and Techniques of the European Consortium for Political Research in Vienna.
Following a succesful departmental study afternoon on social media, Hans-Martien ten Napel has started a blog on Law, Religion & Politics, which has attracted well over 300 views in its first two weeks only.
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.
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.
