Professors
Professor | Faculty | Chair |
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Prof.dr.mr. M.S. Berger |
Sultan of Oman Chair in Oriental Studies |
Praesidium Libertatis I |
Prof.dr. N.M. Blokker |
International Institutional Law |
Prof.mr. H.G. Schermers Fund |
Prof.dr. S.A. Cramsey |
Central European Studies |
Austrian Studies Fund |
Prof.dr. E.L.J. Fortuin |
Russian Language and Linguistics |
Anna Croiset van der Kop Fund |
Prof.dr. A. Goemans | Youth care and youth protection from a pedagogical and legal perspective | Special Chair in Pedagogy and Law Pro Juventute Fund |
Prof.dr. P.J.A. Kessler |
Botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia |
LUF |
Prof.dr. A. van der Laan | Juvenile and Adolescent Crime | Fund for the study of Youth and Adolescent Crime |
Prof.dr. T.N. van Leeuwen | Monitoring Open Science Policies and Practices | LUF |
Prof.dr.mr. T. Liefaard |
Children's Rights |
Unicef-Fund Chair Children’s Rights |
Prof.dr. T.E. McGonagle |
Media Law and Information Society |
A.W. Hins Fund |
Prof. J. Todres | Enforcement of Children's Rights | Kroese-Duijsters Fund |
Prof.dr. D.A. Pargas |
Leiden Chair of the History and Culture of North America |
Praesidium Libertatis I |
Prof.mr. C. Waaldijk |
Comparative Sexual Orientation Law |
Betsy Brouwer Fund |
One of these professors by special appointment is Dr Paul Keßler, prefect of the Leiden Hortus Botanicus and an affiliate of the Faculty of Science. He has held the chair in Botanical Gardens and the Botany of Southeast Asia since 2017.
Oldest academic garden
The Hortus Botanicus in Leiden is the oldest academic garden in Western Europe and has an impressive collection of plants mainly from Southeast Asia. Thanks to his chair by special appointment, Dr Kessler will intensify the botanical research on groups of orchids and carnivorous plants. He will also broaden the contacts with universities and botanical gardens in Indonesia and China.