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Ongoing call for contributions: City reports on international law
22 October 2019The International Law Association (ILA) study group on "the Role of Cities in International Law", the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Freie Universität Berlin invite researchers to submit abstracts for reports on city practices in relation to international law....
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Sign up now for our one week course on EU external policies and asylum
18 October 2019For the first time, the Asser Institute and the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) are organising the CLEER winter academy from 17 to 21 February 2020. The winter academy is a one-week training course on EU external policies and instruments &a...
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Blog post: A Nobel Peace Prize for Africa, but what about the other half of the story?
15 October 2019 By Misha PlagisIn a new blogpost Asser researcher Dr Misha Plagis asks: “The Nobel Prize for Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed is a cause for celebration. But what about the other half of the deal: the situation of the Eritreans?” Since 1960, when Albert Lithuli...
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Imagining Justice: bringing together lawyers and artists
14 October 2019While artists and international jurists have many interests in common, they often remain two worlds apart. The Asser Institute research project Imagining Justice aims to change that by seeking cooperation between artists, lawyers and academics for events such ...
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Blog post: On the illegality of the Turkish offensive in Syria
10 October 2019 By Rebecca Mignot-MahdaviIn a new blog post, Asser Researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi debunks the self-defense justification that Turkey uses as its warplanes and artillery strike border towns in north-eastern Syria in a bid to reclaim the region from the formerly US-backed Kurdish for...