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A new management team for the Asser Institute in 2024
20 December 2023Kasper Vrolijk will be starting as the Asser Institute's new managing director and member of the executive board on 1 February 2024. Together with Christophe Paulussen, the recently appointed acting academic director and chair of the executive board, Vrolijk w...
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[The year in review] Rethinking international law: From Memory Laws to AI and war crimes
19 December 2023As 2023 draws to a close, we compiled this years’ ten most insightful and thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in the field of international law. The conversations discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the global legal community, offer...
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UN special rapporteur on right to housing to visit the Asser Institute
18 December 2023The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, will conduct a visit to the Netherlands this week. On Thursday 21 December, the special rapporteur will hold a press conference at the Asser Institute. Access ...
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[New publication] The influence of AI decision-support systems on legal assessments in military targeting
14 December 2023Taylor Woodcock explores how algorithmic decision-support systems (DSS) in warfare impact legal reasoning in military targeting in a new article for Global Society’s special issue on algorithmic warfare. She concludes that these systems currently lack the capa...
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[New publication] Addressing the legal questions surrounding the EU’s strategic autonomy
11 December 2023Asser Institute researcher Eva Kassoti and Ramses A. Wessel have brought together a comprehensive legal analysis of the notion of strategic autonomy as editors for a new special issue for the European Foreign Affairs Review. The special issue focuses on genera...