In a new book chapter forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing, Magdalena Pacholska demystifies autonomous weapons systems (AWS); identifies the main legal issues they might possibly pose and offers possible solutions. The chapter is designed to serve as a che...

The existing legal framework of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) allows for the recognition of nonhumans as victims of ecocide, argues Giovanna Frisso (University of Lincoln) in the new ICD Brief ‘Ecocide: the environment as victim at...

In the book chapter ‘Overlooking Continuity: National Minorities and ‘Timeless’ Human Rights’, Asser Institute researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz critiques the dominant approach to national minorities in human rights discourse. The author argues that this ...

The Asser Institute and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) are pleased to announce a call for papers on the topic of The EU as a Regional International Organisation (RIO). The deadline for submitting an abstract is 1 May 2023. Regional internati...

In a new blog post for ICRC, researchers Marta Bo (Asser Institute, SIPRI) and Vincent Boulanin (SIPRI) offer three lessons on the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to ensure accountability for violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). Ahead ...

Last week, the international law clinic project on ‘Access to Justice for Gun Violence’ was launched by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic of the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with the Asser Institute and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. T...

PhD researcher Taylor Woodcock conducts research in the context of the DILEMA project on designing international law and ethics into military artificial intelligence (AI). She focuses on the legal frameworks (international humanitarian law and international hu...

The USSR invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s and the process towards justice and peace which followed the withdrawal of Soviet troops could provide important lessons for the implementation of transitional justice and respect for the international rule of...

    20 April 2023• Starts at: 15:00h• Fee: Free• Venue: Peace Palace• Organiser: Asser Institute “One of the main causes of hunger and famine is violence and armed conflict. In turn, armed conflict leads to more food insecurity. How then to get out of this vi...