Join us this August for our 9th international Advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law. This well-established interactive course brings together experts, academics and policy makers from around the world working in the fiel...

The European Union is one of the most advanced anti-discrimination law systems in the world, but as it exists today, it is only nineteen years old. A new book, EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender, is the first to examine the state of EU anti-discriminatio...

Asser’s academic director and professor of History and Theory of International Law at the University of Amsterdam Janne E. Nijman has joined the brand new Hague International Gender Champions Hub, which is launched today at the International Criminal Court in ...

On Wednesday 13 February, the Asser Institute will be hosting a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Human Control over Autonomous Military Technologies’ from 14:30 to 17:00. The event is organised in the context of the new Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligen...

Academic director and board member Prof. Dr Janne E. Nijman of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and Prof. Dr Tom Groot, Professor of Management Accounting at the VU, have been appointed to the Supervisory Board of PAX. PAX, which means peace, works with partners an...

The Asser Institute is pleased to host an OXIO Talk on the experiences and challenges of being an international institutional lawyer – both as academic and as practitioner. The event features an informal conversation between Gabrielle Marceau and Niels Blokker...

Asser researcher Dr Marta Bo is quoted by news agency Agence France-Presse on the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to acquit former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo. While the prosecution failed to convince the Court that Gbagbo was respo...

From the Asser Institute we wish you a peaceful and inspiring 2019 – a year in which our world will have to find ways to address urgent global challenges justly and effectively. A year in which we, as Europeans, will probably have to deal with Brexit, whilst ...

Deprivation of nationality as a counter-terrorism measure is ineffective, says Asser Institute researcher Dr Christophe Paulussen in NRC Next. The Dutch newspaper writes that despite compelling advice from anti-terrorism advisors not to deprive jihadists from ...