Leiden Law Blog

Public Law

‘Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?’: fingerprinting migrant children under the Eurodac Regulation

Under the recast EURODAC Regulation it is proposed to lower the minimum age of data subjects from to 14 to 6 years of age. This raises issues of compatibility with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

Merve Kaya • 08-05-2018

Private Law

Evolving capacities of children: teenagers lead anti-gun law protests in America

Teenagers who survived a high school shooting in Florida have sparked a national movement and changed the debate on gun law in America. March for Our Lives remind us how children’s capacities are often underestimated or overlooked.

Sheila Varadan • 07-05-2018

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Traffic jams and smoking bans

When we compare the latest Dutch measures to deal with traffic jams and smoking, we see that we are actually facilitating the rise of traffic pollution while tightening the smoking bans. This shows that we are still not truly environmentally aware.

Wim Bonis • 02-05-2018

Public Law

Unaccompanied children becoming young adults and the right to family reunion

The CJEU held in A.S. that family reunification of the parents of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child should be allowed if the applicant was a minor when the asylum application was lodged. This affects the family reunification policies of Member States.

Mark Klaassen • 24-04-2018

Criminal Law and Criminology

Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility and the importance of proper youth care

The Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles conducted a study on the minimum age of criminal responsibility. As a result the Council recommended raising the minimum age to at least 14 years and improving youth care.

Ton Liefaard + 1 other • 21-03-2018

Public Law

The Committee on the Rights of the Child on Female Genital Mutilation and Non-Refoulement

In its first ruling, the Committee on the rights of the Child holds that the deportation of a Somali mother and her baby daughter fearing to undergo FGM would breach Denmark’s obligation to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence.

Mark Klaassen + 1 other • 20-03-2018

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‘Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?’: fingerprinting migrant children under the Eurodac Regulation

Evolving capacities of children: teenagers lead anti-gun law protests in America

Traffic jams and smoking bans

Unaccompanied children becoming young adults and the right to family reunion

Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility and the importance of proper youth care

The Committee on the Rights of the Child on Female Genital Mutilation and Non-Refoulement