The T.M.C. Asser Instituut invites professionals to apply to the Nuffic Orange Knowledge Programme Scholarship (OKP) to attend our 2022 summer law programme on International criminal law and international legal & comparative approaches to counter-terrorism...

Earlier this month, work has started on the new MEMOCRACY research project, co-organised with University of Cologne, University of Copenhagen, and Polish Academy of Sciences. As part of the MEMOCRACY research consortium, Asser senior researcher Dr Uladzislau B...

Registrations are open for the seventh Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture 2021, which will be held by Emerita Professor Brigid Laffan, an internationally recognised expert on the European Union. The title of her lecture is: ‘Europe’s role in the world: player or play...

In March 2021, the Asser Institute held a digital conference around the theme of Delocalised Justice, with the support of the AfronomicsLaw blog. We discussed situations in which wrongs were suffered at the hands of corporations on the African continent and Gl...

[Interview] Asser researcher Christophe Paulussen: “It was an interview with Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, which pushed me to the field of international criminal law” Dr Christophe Paulussen is a senior researcher at the T.M.C. As...

US and EU regulators are focusing on the market power and monopolistic behaviour of big tech firms. However, they tend to focus mostly on the conduct and market position of online platforms, while ignoring the underlying technologies by which they operate. But...

In a new essay on constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog, researchers Helmut Philipp Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) and Janne E. Nijman (Asser Institute) point to the missing urban dimension in the international law debates on the attacks of 9/11: “Internati...

'War Crimes Units: Legislative, Organisational and Technical Lessons', a new report written by Karolina Aksamitowska for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut/Global Rights Compliance MATRA-Ukraine project, provides an overview of best practices drawn from domestic war c...

Art and international law, it does seem an uneasy combination – international law being strict, rigid, and all about the application of the rules, and art which tends to bend and question those very same rules. But researcher Sofia Stolk thrives in this no man...