access to justice

Private Law

35 years of children's rights: time for renewed commitment

How has the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child shaped children’s rights over the last 35 years and what still needs to be done in the face of the current global challenges?

Ton Liefaard + 1 other • 20-11-2024

Public Law

AI in the EU and Access to Justice – A Panel Discussion

Automation may endanger fundamental values in the EU. In a panel discussion on 28 January 2022, experts discussed how the use of AI by the EU administration affects individuals’ access to justice.

Sophie van der Kroon + 1 other • 03-03-2022

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law · Private Law

Leveraging technology to enhance access to justice for children in Africa

Based on a presentation given by the author at the Continental Conference on Access to Justice for Children in Africa in May 2018, this blog post explores how African countries have leveraged technology to enhance access to justice for children.

Sabine Katharina Witting • 15-06-2018

Private Law

Child-friendly Judgments :-)

Courts deliver judgments in child-friendly language. This fits in the concept of child-friendly justice, which aims to make justice systems accessible for children. Yet the examples show how difficult it is to make judicial decisions really child-friendly.

Ton Liefaard • 18-07-2017

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Judging the Empire: the Emperor as Judge

Scattered in the Digests are the remains of a book by the famous jurist Julius Paulus, containing reports of cases judged by several Roman emperors. The Leiden Legal History Department has won an NWO grant to reconstruct this book and its social setting.

Egbert Koops • 18-05-2012

Blogs

35 years of children's rights: time for renewed commitment

AI in the EU and Access to Justice – A Panel Discussion

Leveraging technology to enhance access to justice for children in Africa

Child-friendly Judgments :-)

Judging the Empire: the Emperor as Judge