Leiden Law Blog

Private Law

Unaccompanied children travelling by air, a human rights issue

This blog explains how child trafficking in aviation may work in practice and why it desperately needs to be reframed as a human rights issue, in order for the relevant state agents and private actors to intensify their efforts to combat it.

Chrisje Sandelowsky • 08-01-2018

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

For further reflection: international students on the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition

With the Black Pete discussion in the Netherlands in mind, I asked my international students, out of curiosity, what they thought of the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition. Turns out that international students have strong opinions on this.

Esther Kentin • 05-12-2017

Private Law

The New Delaware and its Kirchberg Plateau

The European Court of Justice recently confirmed in its Polbud judgment the extent to which regulatory competition may prevail in the field of corporate law. A review.

Nathan de Arriba-Sellier • 04-12-2017

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Introducing: Experimental Jurisprudence

Studying how the law works in practice using empirical methods is gaining in popularity. A new subfield within ‘Empirical Legal Studies’, has now emerged: Experimental Jurisprudence. Time for all researchers interested in this field to form a network.

Niek Strohmaier • 01-12-2017

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Male privilege and the abuse of power

The #MeToo reports have brought the ‘tradition’ of masculine domination out into the open and what it can lead to. When did it begin, and in what direction will it develop? To shed some light on this matter two kinds of power are distinguished…

Wim Bonis • 29-11-2017

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

The ethical dimension of ancient laws

Due to the inclusion of unwritten laws, surviving from the Stone Age, the (pre-Hammurabi) Sumerian legal system was surprisingly liberal. We can still learn from it, now that our system has caused the ethical dimension to wither – with dire consequences.

Wim Bonis • 10-11-2017

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