When the International Court of Justice stressed the essential role of states' ‘obligation to co-operate’ in its advisory opinion on climate change of 23 July 2025, the pronouncement inevitably carried a deep sense of appeal for solidarity in the seas of geopo...

When it comes to confronting the dark chapters of colonial history, European nations are trying different approaches. A surprising finding suggests that sometimes saying ‘sorry’ works better than passing laws. A new article by Ulad Belavusau (Asser Institute),...

In a new policy brief for the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), researcher Niki Siampakou (Asser Institute) examines how authoritarian regimes are increasingly engaging in transnational repression – the practice of reaching across borders to s...

On 8 September 2025, the Asser Institute and European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) will launch the “Knowledge Hub on International Criminal Law for the Ukrainian Judiciary” in Kyiv, Ukraine. This initiative will work directly with Ukrainian judges to bridge t...

The Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) Knowledge Hub, an online resource and database developed collaboratively by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), has been expanded to include four additional countries: the M...

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 ...