Criminal Law and Criminology

A trip to Oslo and through the Norwegian penal exceptionalism

After a year studying Criminology from the Dutch perspective, Leiden students set off on a journey to learn about the Norwegian criminal justice system and its exceptionalism. What can the Netherlands, and the world, learn from Norway?

Manuela Dias • 19-07-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

The courage to choose the right direction

The fight-or-flight response is particularly strong in the populist movements, but it takes us in the wrong direction. Choosing the right direction is a matter of being open, vulnerable and courageous.

Wim Bonis • 29-05-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

The call for more external order and control

In the prevailing Western view, order is something that must be imposed externally to reduce or end conflict. But there is another order, a natural one that shapes us and the world around us into self-organized wholes that can heal and transform us.

Wim Bonis • 17-04-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology

The appraisal of DNA evidence in criminal law

In recent years many initiatives have been taken to improve how criminal law judges interpret DNA evidence. How well is DNA evidence appraised in criminal law courts today?

Kiki Twisk • 14-02-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Extending Rights and Growing Responsibilities

The environmental lawyer David Boyd has written a very interesting book about the gradual process of extending the legal concept of ‘rights’ to the non-human world: not only to animals, but also – for instance – to trees, rivers and whole eco-systems.

Wim Bonis • 06-02-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology

Please Sir, may I have some more... guns

With each new school shooting, Trump (with the NRA) seems to capitalize on these tragedies to push the political agenda on gun control. The concepts of the precautionary principle and the politics of fear shape their policies

Olivia Kearney • 05-02-2019

Public Law · Criminal Law and Criminology

How Flagrant is Flagrant? The latest judgment in the Celmer Saga

The Irish Court has surprised many by ordering the surrender of Mr. Celmer to Poland. A closer look at the decision reveals that the outcome of the case was decisively influenced by the use of a test which is external to EU law.

Marco Antonio Simonelli • 21-12-2018

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Indigenous injustice and the power of the land

David Peat argues that Native American and Western cultures have clashed from the beginning. The differences form the basis of disputes about land ownership, the outcome of which we all know, and even touches on the current environmental crisis.

Wim Bonis • 19-12-2018

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Healing the planet by changing the underlying story

The recent UN climate report and the Urgenda appeal case reflect hopeful developments with regard to dealing with climate change. But there are alternative views, reaching beyond the emphasis on numbers and statistics, that deserve attention as well.

Wim Bonis • 02-11-2018

Criminal Law and Criminology

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A trip to Oslo and through the Norwegian penal exceptionalism

The courage to choose the right direction

The call for more external order and control

The appraisal of DNA evidence in criminal law

Extending Rights and Growing Responsibilities

Please Sir, may I have some more... guns

How Flagrant is Flagrant? The latest judgment in the Celmer Saga

Indigenous injustice and the power of the land

Healing the planet by changing the underlying story