On April 25, in a packed Peace Palace in The Hague, Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture speaker prof. Fleur Johns explored new techniques of community-making in her lecture 'Connection in a divided world: Rethinking ‘community’ in international law'. Johns introduced ...

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is offering five fully-funded scholarships for the upcoming training programme on disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, co-organised by the Asser Institute and the Organisation on th...

In a brand new episode of JurisDictions, the Asser Institute international law podcast by researcher and podcast host Dr Carl Lewis, four guests discuss the ICJ’s South Africa v Israel case.   The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has provided two orders o...

In an interview for OpinioJuris conducted by researcher Klaudia Klonowska, international law scholar Fleur Johns explores how the concept of ‘community’ shapes international law. Professor Johns, who will speak at the 9th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture in The Hag...

The T.M.C. Asser Institute invites papers for a conference on the topic of ‘General Principles in EU External Relations Law’ which will be held on 6 December 2024, at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague. Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of max....

In their recently published blog piece for Opinio Juris, Marta Bo (Asser Institute) and Jessica Dorsey (Utrecht University) criticise the lack of regulation for military use of AI-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS). These AI-enabled systems are being im...

Today, EU stakeholders, including Asser Institute researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, are meeting in Brussels to discuss export controls for conventional arms during the Working Party on Conventional Arms Exports (COARM). Intergovernmental bodies are incre...

If you have not registered yet, please make sure to save your seat for the 9th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday 25 April in the Peace Palace in The Hague. We only have a few seats left! The lecture, by professor Fleur Johns, a recognised expert on inter...

In their publication for the Law, Governance, and Technology book series, Jonathan Kwik and Tom van Engers address the trade-off between explainability and performance in artificial intelligence-enabled weapons systems from a legal perspective. They introduce ...