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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State Lecture Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State Dr Vanessa Barker Date 6 April 2018 Time 14:00 - 16:00  hrs. Location Kamerlingh Onnes Building Steenschuur 25 2311 ES Leiden Room A144 In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian effort...

Colloquium: Minorities and The Criminal Justice System The United States leads the world in per capita rates of incarceration. Scholars have argued that these data reflect the country’s addiction to incarceration as a primary instrument of social control. Importantly, research demonstrates that Black, Brown and Indigenous people are arrested, prosecuted...

The Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam has a job opening for 4 PhD candidates who will participate in the Group Violence research programme (ERC project Don Weenink). Note that the job advertisement is in Dutch because proficiency in the Dutch language is a requirement for the positions.

Vier promovendi voor het Groupviolence Onderzoeksprogramma - Universiteit van Amsterdam . Het onderzoek en onderwijs worden verzorgd door aparte instituten. Het College Sociale Wetenschappen (CSW) is verantwoordelijk voor het bachelor-onderwijs, de Graduate School Social Sciences (GSSS) voor het master- en PhD-onderwijs en het

EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - Reflections and Prospects Leiden Law School Conferences

Beyond the ‘Integration’ of Refugees: Towards a Development of a New Paradigm Given our belief in the role of the university in advancing policy responses and reshaping the narrative on understanding the movement of people across and between nation-state borders, this symposium is organised around the following themes:

Exploring migrants’ lived experiences of the legal systems Whilst ‘the law’ (international norms, state immigration law and policies) regulates the movement of people, the ‘black letter law’ does not operate in a vacuum. It is important therefore to ask what are the effects of the law on the governed mobile populations, how does the law work ‘in action’ in…

Promovendus ‘Burgervriendelijke communicatie van overheidsdata: juridische en rechtssociologische aspecten’ (0,8-1,0 fte) Onderzoek Overheden ‘zitten op’ grote hoeveelheden data. Het beschikbaar stellen hiervan blijkt in de praktijk echter ingewikkeld, niet in de laatste plaats door de overlappende juridische kaders (…

Interesting lecture as part of the Leiden Socio-Legal Series; all welcome!

Peering Through the Legal Mobilisation Lens to Analyse the Potential of Legal Advocacy - Leiden University Friday 3 February ILS 2.0 presents: Leiden Socio-Legal Series:“Peering Through the Legal Mobilisation Lens to Analyse the Potential of Legal Advocacy” by Dr. Jeff Handmaker – International Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University.

Trump or Clinton? When the world wakes up on Wednesday morning, who will be the new American president? Come to The Big Leiden Presidential Breakfast and hear Leiden researchers’ analysis of the result. Free entry; coffee and donuts for all students and staff of Leiden University.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2016/11/the-big-leiden-presidential-breakfast

From 21 to 25 September the Just Peace Festival takes place in The Hague. Check out this page for further details, including a link to the English programme.

Just Peace Platform for Peace and Justice.

Den Haag ademt vrede en recht. Onze ambitie is om te bouwen op dit fundament met als doel om vrede & recht in de harten en het handelen van onze inwoners, ondernemers en organisaties een belangrijke plaats te geven