Research at Leiden Law School

Research at Leiden Law School means research at the highest level. From this research, dissertations, books and other scholarly output are published. Researchers at Leiden Law School contribute to public debates with appearances in the media and popular publications.

Research at Leiden Law School is concentrated in eight research programmes in which researchers from different (legal) disciplines work together. 

In addition, researchers from Leiden Law School participate in two themes within the National Law Sector Plan, and in various interdisciplinary research programmes and profile areas of Leiden University.

National Law Sector Plan

• Empirical Legal Studies (ELS)
• Institutions for Conflict Resolution (COI)

Interdisciplinary research

• Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS)
• Social Resilience and Society
• Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC)
• Social Citizenship and Migration (SCM)
• Regenerative Medicine
• Liveable Planet

Profile areas

• Asian Modernities and Traditions
• Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS)
• Political Legitimacy: institutions and identities