This morning the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands does not have to repatriate a group of 23 Dutch women and their 56 children currently detained in Northern Syria. Asser counterterrorism researchers Dr Christophe Pauluss...

On Friday June 26, the Municipality of The Hague and T.M.C. Asser Instituut convened the online closing plenary of the 2020 virtual annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). This prestigious society aims to foster the study of interna...

T.M.C. Asser Press and the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (YIHL) are inviting authors to submit contributions to Vol. 23 (2020) of YIHL on expert panel manuals. Manuals on the law of armed conflict come in different guises. ...

The Office of the Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee is tasked to assist the United Nations Security Council’s Committee by reviewing delisting petitions independently and impartially, and to recommend either retention or delist...

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded the Asser Institute and Global Rights Compliance (GRC) a contract under the MATRA (MAatschappelijke TRAnsformatie: social transformation) Programme to provide support to the reform in Ukraine’s criminal justi...

The safe repatriation of the children of former IS fighters living in Syria and Iraq is urgent and has been unnecessarily delayed by court proceedings, writes Asser researcher Dr Rumyana van Ark, who recently signed a book contract with the publisher Edward El...

On Tuesday, Asser senior researcher Dr Christophe Paulussen took part in the ICCT Live Briefing ‘The Repatriation of Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Their Families: Why Not?’. In the briefing, Paulussen argued that repatriation and prosecution is the right thin...

Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has received an Early Career Partnership Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She will receive € 10,000 to organise a meeting to expand interdisciplinary cooperation in order to gain n...

June 3, 2020 saw the very first online Supranational Criminal Law (SCL) lecture, titled ‘Challenges to Prosecuting Paramilitaries: Insights from the former Yugoslavia and Syria’.   The SCL lecture series is organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in coopera...