A delegation from the Kurdistan Center for International Law, headed by deputy director Mr Ahmed Zangana, visited the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague this week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a framework for bilateral cooperation o...

Asser Institute senior researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz was awarded an NWO SSH XS Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project 'Rearming Europe with Legal Accountability' (RELY). The RELY project will explore how the European Union can st...

This summer you can still take part in two landmark training programmes marking fifteen years of legal education at the Asser Institute. Whether your focus is on tackling terrorism or preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), these advanced,...

A new book from Asser Press argues that the International Criminal Court (ICC) must look beyond its founding treaty, the Rome Statute, to confront a growing crisis of states refusing to cooperate. In "The Consequences of Non-cooperation with the International ...

As the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law rose to number 8 among law journals worldwide in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports, we interviewed Ronald Janse, the journal’s editor-in-chief about this milestone. For Janse, the key to their success is clear: a focus o...

In a new publication, researcher Jonathan Kwik (Asser Institute) examines sycophantic military AI assistants. He explores the reasons behind ‘bootlicking’ behaviour in AI systems, highlights the significant battlefield dangers it presents, and proposes a two-p...

In a brand-new episode of JurisDictions, the Asser Institute’s international law podcast, researcher Dr Carl Lewis interviews Ammar Hijazi, Ambassador and Head of the Palestinian Mission to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the Sta...

Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a "historic" Advisory Opinion on climate change obligations, calling it "an existential problem of planetary proportions." Though not legally binding, the Court's emphasis on international cooperati...

In a new publication, researcher Zsófia Baumann (Asser Institute/University of Amsterdam) highlights how community engagement can significantly enhance policies on preventing and countering violent extremism (‘P/CVE’). Baumann argues that by empowering local c...