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      • [Online training programme] Disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 2021
      • [Online workshop] Movies that Matter and the Asser Institute: the power of film in international justice
      • [New publication] ‘A vaguely defined licence to kill’: jus ad bellum and the War on Terror
      • AI is challenging existing practices within the law of armed conflict
      • [Last call] Deadline extended for Nuffic MENA Scholarship: Apply now for summer programme on countering terrorism and the rule of law
      • ‘In search of judicial independence’ – op-ed in Kathmandu Post by Shelter City Fellow
      • Call for papers: FIFA and human rights - Impacts, policies, responsibilities
      • Lecture by Dr Kenneth Payne on Artificial Intelligence in strategic affairs
      • Counter-terrorism expert Paulussen in NRC: “It is an illusion to think that citizenship stripping is effective”
      • 'Bringing critical thinking to power' - New Year's message from Asser's academic director
      • Asser in the press on International Criminal Court’s Gbagbo decision
      • Two souls in one breast: The international institutional lawyer as scholar and as practitioner
      • Academic director and member of the board Janne Nijman joins the PAX Supervisory Board
      • Panel discussion: Human control over Autonomous Military Technologies
      • Asser academic director becomes a gender champion
      • Coming up: Book launch on EU Anti-Discrimination Law, the world’s most advanced anti-discrimination law system
      • Save the date: Advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law
      • Cross borders with the Asser Institute @ Movies that Matter Festival 2019
      • Asser in the press: Chagos islands case before the International Court of Justice
      • [Webinar] Using battlefield evidence in the fight against terrorism: International law dimensions
      • [SAVE THE DATE] Online summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism & the rule of law
      • Cities and international law in the Urban Age
      • Call for papers – 3rd Annual International Sports Law Conference of the International Sports Law Journal
      • New blog: The Shamima Begum case: ‘Revoking citizenship is ineffective and counterproductive’
      • Call for papers: Are Human Rights a myth or a lived reality?
      • Register now: The Legal Roles of Cities in a (De)Globalising World - keynote speech by Yishai Blank
      • International Women’s Day: Janne Nijman puts the spotlight on peace activist Bertha von Suttner (1843 - 1914)
      • New publication on the effect of the UK’s counter-terrorism policies on the rule of law
      • Francophone training in International and Transnational Criminal Law
      • Asser takes part in a research project on EU sports diplomacy
      • Register now: Summer law programme on international criminal law & international legal & comparative approaches to counter-terrorism
      • Asser Institute at the 2019 ASIL Annual Meeting
      • The Race for Human Rights: Leveraging Bahrain’s Grand Prix for Change
      • Sign up now for our upcoming training programmes
      • What is an ‘effective’ counter-terrorism strategy? Join our upcoming conference in May
      • Call for papers: The city in constitutional law
      • Free lecture: The Romanian experience in the EU external relations field
      • [Call for papers] Delocalised justice
      • [Professional education] Introducing the Asser Academy Masterclass series: innovative short courses for legal professionals
      • [ICL-TCL training] ‘Strengthening domestic capacity to prosecute and adjudicate international and transnational crimes in Africa'
      • [Op-ed] ‘UK, Australia and the Netherlands should not evade responsibility through citizenship stripping’
      • ‘Legislative fever is not a long-term solution for stopping terrorism incitement’
      • Asser in the press on citizenship stripping in Bahrain
      • Citizenship stripping as a counter-terrorism measure is inefficient
      • [Blog] EU’s future due diligence legislation will speed up justice for Shell claimants
      • [Blog] Covid-19 exposes structural inequality in global supply chain contracts
      • [New website] Launch of the ILA Study Group’s website on cities and international law
      • [Register now] Lecture on Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in challenging times
      • The many challenges of prosecuting sexual terrorism: the case of ISIS
      • [Blog] Artificial intelligence: Is the answer more law?
      • [New website] Launch of the Asser Nexus on Conflict and Crime
      • Staying in an area controlled by a terrorist organisation: crime or operational necessity?
      • [Blog] ‘Meaningful human control over autonomous weapons and International Criminal Law’
      • [Register now] DILEMA lecture: Remote, autonomous weapons and human agency
      • [ Asser news ] Handover ceremony of unique inter-university programme in Lebanon
      • [Annual Lecture] Watch a recording of the 6th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture
      • New Year’s resolutions? Our winter academies will help you stay ahead in 2021
      • Scholarships available for our 2021 winter academies
      • Book by Asser researcher Chukwuma Okoli subject of symposium
      • Joint initiative: Launch of a Forum of Legal Actors on freedom of expression
      • [New lecture series] ‘Method, methodology and critique in international law’
      • Lessons in justice: Asser’s educational programme with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon celebrated
      • Apply now: The Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
      • Germany and its returning foreign terrorist fighters
      • Founder and former director of the Asser Institute has passed away
      • In the spotlight: International humanitarian and criminal law platform
      • Asser president Ernst Hirsch Ballin: “Do we want a de​mocracy that divides or one that makes connections?”
      • [Annual Lecture] A future of ‘algorithmic warfare’?
      • [In the media] Andrew Murray: The use of AI may disrupt democracy and the rule of law
      • [New publication] Policy paper: Supporting the mandate of the African Court
      • [Launch of the DILEMA lecture series]
      • [SCL Lecture] Sexual terrorism
      • [New publication] Countering cyber terrorism in a time of 'war on words’: the case of France
      • [Register now] Online HILAC lecture on 'International humanitarian law and non-state actors'
      • [SCL Lecture] The STL Judgement in the Ayyash et al. case: Justice for Lebanon?
      • [New publication] Legacies of the War on Terror
      • [Online] Annual Lecture
      • [Online HILAC lecture] Military necessity and the law of armed conflict
      • DILEMA research project on military AI formally started
      • [Asser in the media] Asser senior researcher Christophe Paulussen on the Ayyash et al. judgement
      • [New publication]:’The legality of economic activities in occupied territories’
      • [Online training programmes] Register now for our upcoming training programmes
      • [Online] Advanced summer programme terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law
      • [Online training programme] Disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
      • [New paper] Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: The continuing saga of state responsibility for the conduct of peacekeeping forces
      • [Analysis] Dutch Supreme Court rules on the group repatriation of the families of IS fighters: ‘We expect that more individual court cases will now be started”
      • Repatriate and prosecute foreign terrorist fighters
      • Call for Papers on expert panel manuals for the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
      • MATRA Project Awarded: Providing support to Ukraine to combat international crimes
      • [Counter-terrorism] ‘The repatriation of the children of former IS fighters should be matter of urgency rather than a political choice’
      • [Recording] Webinar: Challenges to Prosecuting Paramilitaries: Insights from the former Yugoslavia and Syria
      • Online course: Advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law
      • Disarmament and non-proliferation training in times of renewed nuclear unpredictability
      • [Recording] Asser live webinar ‘Counter-terrorism & the law: A forever and anywhere war’
      • Asser’s Counter-Terrorism Brief on: A ‘Forever and Anywhere War’?
      • [SIGN UP NOW] Disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme
      • Sign up now for our upcoming training courses
      • [SIGN UP NOW] Summer law programme on international criminal law & international legal & comparative approaches to counter-terrorism
      • How to respond to ‘sexual terrorism’?
      • Deadline extended for applications research positions in ethics and law of military AI
      • Blog post: ‘The counter-productiveness of deprivation of nationality as a national security measure’
      • [EVENT] Nationality deprivation in the era of Rohingya genocide and ISIS fighters
      • [SIGN UP NOW] Online advanced summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism and the rule of law
      • SAVE THE DATE: 10th Advanced summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism and the rule of law
      • Training on prosecution and adjudication of international and transnational crimes in Tanzania
      • [New publications] Asser researcher Chukwuma Okoli publishes on private international law in Nigeria
      • International law for public interest
      • What is an inclusive city? Asser academic director Janne Nijman spoke on Amsterdam seminar
      • Pax moot court competition brings international law students to The Hague
      • Blog: Prof. Richard English - Does terrorism work?
      • New ‘Global Europe’ project launched
      • Blog: Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons
      • Call for nominations for the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award
      • Backstage of transnational law
      • Continuing the Chinese-European dialogue on world order
      • Register now: A special event with Philippe Couvreur on the role of Registrar of the International Court of Justice
      • Nine scholarships available for the disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme
      • Asser president Hirsch Ballin presents a report on human rights and sustainable development
      • ‘FIFA and Human Rights’ symposium kicked off on Verfassungsblog
      • Will a Dutch man who fought in Syria be stripped of his citizenship?
      • Annual report 2018
      • [Call for Papers] Law and governance of a global city: 17th-century Amsterdam
      • What sports law tells you about transnational law
      • Blog post: Outsourcing the management of terrorism suspects to other countries
      • Call for Contributions: City reports on International Law
      • The dynamic between terrorism and counter-terrorism and the quest for legitimacy in the eyes of the public
      • Blog post: City-branding and human rights: a win-win combination?
      • In quest of liberty, justice, and peace: a new biography on Asser’s private and public life
      • The changing nature of courtroom evidence
      • Prosecuting international and transnational crimes requires domestic capacity: Asser trains magistrates from french-speaking African countries
      • Dr Oliver Meier to address the impact of US - Russian relations on arms control at the WMD training programme
      • Register for the third ISLJ International Sports Law Conference
      • Honoring the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Tobias Asser
      • SAVE THE DATE: ‘Rule of law challenges and prospects in Albania and North Macedonia’
      • The renovated Asser Institute building officially open
      • Launching the Global Europe project: The transparency of the global dimension of EU law
      • #International Day of Democracy: The impact of memory laws on democracy
      • SAVE THE DATE: 2020 Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence & International law
      • #ISLJConf19: Transfer systems in international sports
      • New cases added to the International Crimes Database
      • EU trade agreements and the duty to respect human rights abroad
      • An interview with human rights defender Dilip Chakma: “In India Chakma’s are a minority in all aspects”
      • Blog post: On the illegality of the Turkish offensive in Syria
      • Imagining Justice: bringing together lawyers and artists
      • Blog post: A Nobel Peace Prize for Africa, but what about the other half of the story?
      • Sign up now for our one week course on EU external policies and asylum
      • Ongoing call for contributions: City reports on international law
      • International humanitarian law: an often forgotten field of law in the fight against terrorism
      • Why doping in sport can't be stopped
      • The programme for the winter academy on artificial intelligence and international law is out
      • Blog: ‘Deprivation of nationality of Dutch IS fighters is counter-productive’
      • CLEER Winter Academy: EU external relations and instruments
      • Blog: Citizenship deprivation will strengthen IS jihadist ideology
      • Renowned legal scholar Prof. Anne Orford will deliver the Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture
      • Minister Sigrid Kaag to give a short speech at the Fifth Annual Asser Lecture 2019
      • Season 8 of Asser’s educational programme for Lebanese students begins today
      • Asser researchers contribute to a study on radical and hate speakers in Europe
      • Speaker Anne Orford: “International treaties can and must be more social”
      • Asser researcher wins NWO grant to research AI in the military context
      • Watch the full annual Asser lecture by Prof. Anne Orford
      • [TV Interview] Asser researcher speaks about France's role in Sahel and counter-terrorism policies
      • Local high school students snap photos of The Hague for Human Rights Day
      • Asser researcher appointed as member of the permanent commission on Human Rights of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs
      • The role of cities in international law: researchers meet in Berlin
      • [Interview] Aung San Suu Kyi to defend Myanmar before the ICJ in Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case
      • Student scholarships available for the Doing Business Right winter academy
      • Blog: ‘We need a private international law system that responds to the interests of Africa’
      • New Year’s resolutions? Our winter academies will help you stay ahead in 2020
      • Call for papers: Urban politics of human rights
      • Global Justice Cinema: where film meets international justice
      • [Interview] Asser researcher Berenice Boutin: “Now is the moment to govern and regulate Artificial Intelligence”
      • Start your year with high quality trainings in the fields of AI and international law and business and human rights.
      • Event: The autonomy of the EU legal order
      • Blog: Does Artificial Intelligence exacerbate injustices?
      • 2020: Joining forces in an eventful year
      • New Asser Press publication: “Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism”
      • [Blog] Using big data for research and policy analysis: how to deal with legal and ethical concerns?
      • Symposium and book presentation on responses to the threats to the judiciary's independence
      • [Interview]: Curtailing the surveillance state? Anticipating the SyRI case judgment
      • [Conference] Migration deals and their damaging effects
      • Finnish Ambassador to speak in an upcoming Asser lecture
      • Global Justice Cinema: Eight Films on Finding Truth and Fighting for Justice
      • Asser researcher writes on the practice of the African Court and the ‘others’
      • Same-sex spouses should enjoy the same free movement rights according to EU law
      • Asser researcher writes on the limits of digital surveillance for Het Parool
      • [Asser in the news] Mexico’s amnesty proposal: an instrument of transitional justice?
      • New project: ‘Strengthening the role of legal actors in the defence of the right to freedom of expression’
      • Covid-19 update on T.M.C. Asser's 2020 summer programmes
      • [Analysis] COVID-19: US border closure breaches International Refugee Law
      • [Blog post] Migration: Revisiting the legal nature of the 2016 EU-Turkey statement
      • [Blog post] Democracy in times of crisis: The state of emergency in Hungary
      • [New publication] Grotius’ ‘rule of law’ and the human sense of justice; an afterword to Martti Koskenniemi’s foreword by Janne E. Nijman
      • [Call for papers] Rendering advice on constitutional issues in modern polities
      • [SIGN UP NOW] International public interest advocacy online workshop
      • Imagining Justice: visiting physical sites of international law
      • [Blog post] The beginning of the end of a home-grown African Court?
      • The Belarusian response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Denial and a military parade
      • Asser researcher receives Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Early Career Partnership Award
      • Sign up now for our upcoming training courses (1)
      • [Recording] Ombudsperson to the UN Security Council ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions committee: protecting human rights in counterterrorism sanctions
      • [2020 ASIL] Hague institutions hosted the closing plenary on cities and international law
      • [New paper] Planetary boundaries intra muros: Cities and the Anthropocene
      • [Interview] International lawyer Nawi Ukabiala: 'Use international norms and dispute settlement to promote racial justice in the US'
      • [Asser in the media] Asser researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz: ‘US measures against migrants undercut international refugee law’
      • [Online round table] Trading emerging technologies: Security and human rights perspectives
      • [Op-ed] Janne Nijman & Mary O’Connell: ‘A Better World Emerging from the Crises’
      • Asser researcher co-authors Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law
      • [Analysis] Asser researcher Uladzislau Belavusau reflects on the political crisis in Belarus
      • [Opening academic year] Academic director Janne Nijman: ‘It is the human mind that may evoke change’
      • [Lex sportiva] New publications on transnational sports law
      • [Online round table] Trading emerging technologies: Security and human rights perspectives
      • In Memoriam: Antoinette Wessels-Voorbij
      • [Online expert panel] Missing persons and memory governance
      • [New publications] What kind of future for EU-UK relations in the post-Brexit world?
      • [Recording] Online expert panel on missing persons and memory governance
      • [Online symposium] Informalisation of the EU’s external action in the fields of migration and asylum
      • [Winter academy alert!] Save the date for our 2021 winter academies
      • A new way forward: T.M.C. Asser Instituut and University of Amsterdam join forces in The Hague
      • [New publication] ‘Constitutionalism under Stress: Essays in Honour of Wojciech Sadurski’
      • [Registration open] Online winter academy ‘Doing business right'
      • [Just Peace Month] Online lecture ‘Bigdatalk: talking and learning about the use of Big Data in security practices’
      • [PhD defence] ‘The legal governance of historical memory and the rule of law’
      • [Consolidation] ‘The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research now incorporates all Dutch law schools’
      • [Register now] Online winter academy 'Artificial intelligence and international law'
      • [Blog] Beyond AI ethics: International law and human rights for AI accountability
      • Call for Papers: Empirical & Socio-legal Methods in International Law Masterclass
      • T.M.C. Asser Instituut invites researchers to jointly submit applications for a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
      • AI and Blockchain for Good: Harnessing Technological Developments to Foster Trust
      • Meeting the Four Freedoms Award Laureates in The Hague
      • Expert Roundtable on Citizenship Stripping as a Security Measure
      • The Long-Term Risk of non-Repatriation of Dutch Children in Syrian Camps
      • T.M.C. Asser Instituut becomes a member of the Common Effort Community
      • Call for Papers: "Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights in Europe and the World in Times of Contestation"
      • Exploring States’ Obligations to Prevent Gross Human Rights Violations
      • “A Tale of Two Cities”: The Roles of Geneva and The Hague, two UN cities, in Driving Global Justice
      • Policy Brief: ‘The Case for a Court of Arbitration for Business and Human Rights’
      • The Federal Rainbow Dream: On Free Movement of Gay Spouses Under EU Law
      • Call for Papers - 10th Anniversary CLEER Conference: ‘EU external relations: Tackling global challenges?’
      • Asser Researcher Receives Funding for a Project on Autonomous Military Technologies and State Responsibility
      • Moving Forward Five Years after the Rana Plaza Collapse
      • Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz Visits the Asser Institute
      • Call for Papers - Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018)
      • Seventh Annual PhD Day
      • EU Trade and Investment Policy
      • Call for Applications: Fellowship Programme For Human Rights Defenders 2018
      • Excesses of Counter-Terrorism and Constitutional Review in France: The Example of the Criminalisation of the Consultation of Websites
      • The Right to Fair Trial and the Rise of Sensitive Intelligence Evidence: Responses from the Dutch and UK Courts
      • Launch of Second Asser-Verfassungsblog Symposium: Courts and Counter-Terrorism
      • Policy Brief: Street Renaming after the Change of Political Regime
      • Asser Institute participates in the closing plenary of ASIL’s 112th Annual Meeting
      • Asser’s First Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law
      • Looking back at the Book launch: Shifting Perspectives on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
      • Call for Papers: The International Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories?
      • The Congo Tribunal – Where Art and International Law Meet
      • CLEER Organises its 4th Summer School in Brussels on the Law of EU External Relations
      • CLEER Lecture on 'The Brexit conundrum' at Maastricht University in Brussels
      • The Asser Institute Co-organises a Memory Laws Workshop with Berkeley Law School
      • Back Home Action Plans under the Spotlight in Tunis
      • Asser Institute Researchers Participate in “Making a Difference" Conference Hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security
      • Morality and Responsibility of Rulers
      • The Asser Institute Signed a New Agreement with the University of Amsterdam
      • On the Interaction between Transnational Crimes and International Crimes
      • Launching the Website of ‘The Global City: Challenges, Trust and the Role of Law’ Project
      • ‘Meet the World’ – Join the Asser Institute at the Movies that Matter Festival 2018
      • International and Transnational Criminal Law Training Course Marks New Asser - Cassese Initiative Cooperation
      • Inside the Mladic Trial: A Report
      • Looking Back at Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism Conference
      • Highlights: "Contemporary Constraints on the Waging of War: A Tribute to Prof. Frits Kalshoven”
      • Restoring Trust in the Rule of Law
      • Asser’s Academic Director to teach ‘History of the Idea of International Law’ in Geneva
      • New Foreign Fighters Tab Launched on the International Crimes Database
      • Connecting Research and Practice at the 'Doing Business Right Winter Academy'
      • University of Amsterdam’s Rector Underlines the Importance of the Asser Institute’s International Focus in Research
      • Concluding Asser - Verfassungsblog Symposium: Final Thoughts on Mnemonic Constitutionalism
      • Memory Wars of Commercial Worth – The Legal Status of the Red Star in Hungary
      • Rule of Law in Poland: Memory Politics and Belarusian Minority
      • The EU-Turkey Statement or the ‘Refugee Deal’: The Extra-Legal Deal of Extraordinary Times?
      • The Asser Institute Successfully Wraps up its First International Lawyering in a Public Interest Summer Programme
      • Asser Institute researcher new Editor in Chief of the Security and Human Rights Monitor
      • Disarmament and non-proliferation training in times of new nuclear arms race
      • Countering Terrorism within the Rule of Law
      • We’re hiring! Three vacancies at the Asser Institute
      • Asser in the press on the Chagos Island case
      • Three Asser memory law researchers will speak in Budapest
      • How to remember the past? Book launch and workshop on memory laws
      • European court dismisses claims by speed skater
      • International Court of Justice condemns US for Iran sanctions
      • Using technology to disrupt land-grabbing
      • Publish or perish: Why legal scholars need to embrace social media
      • New blog: Athletes' case results in more transparency in sports
      • Making transnational corporations comply with human rights standards
      • New terrorism cases and working papers added to the International Crimes Database
      • Annual Lecture 2018: International law and the far right - Reflections on law and cynicism
      • How advanced technologies could help international law
      • International law and the far right: Reflections on law and cynicism
      • Save the date: Winter academy on artificial intelligence and international law
      • Online inter-university programme on international criminal law and procedure for Lebanese students
      • ‘Children of IS parents should be repatriated for long-term security reasons’
      • Five scholarships for Artificial Intelligence and International Law Winter Academy
      • León Castellanos-Jankiewicz wins David D. Caron Prize
      • New Publication: EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender
      • New publication: Impact of sensitive intelligence evidence on court systems
      • Monkey Code wins Asser Institute land grabbing challenge at the Hackathon for Peace, Justice and Security
      • Football Leaks: Asser in the press
      • Brexit withdrawal agreement: ‘Not much space for an autonomous UK trade policy’
      • Pros and cons of EU cooperation on migration
      • New policy brief: ‘Counter-terrorism measures need to be evaluated’
      • Blog: ‘Why EU member states should not hesitate to vote for the Global Compact for Migration’
      • Preliminary programme out now! Artificial Intelligence & International Law Winter Academy
      • ICL-TCL Training Marks Successful Asser Antonio Cassese Initiative Collaboration
      • Five student scholarships available for the Doing Business Right Winter Academy
      • Ernst Hirsch Ballin spoke on the Freedom of Speech
      • 'UK and Australia combatting modern slavery in the supply chain of businesses'
      • Exclusive interview with Martti Koskenniemi on international law and the rise of the far right
      • Blog: Who is responsible for the war crimes of killer robots?
      • Excellent midterm review for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
      • [Inter-university programme] ‘The most important investment the STL could have made in promoting justice, accountability and the rule of law in Lebanon’
      • [Preliminary programme out] Sign up now for our online summer law programme on international criminal law and counter-terrorism
      • [Call for papers] ‘Imagining solidarity in international and regional law’
      • [Preliminary programme out] Top speakers for our advanced summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism and the rule of law
      • [Sign up now] Online workshop: International public interest advocacy
      • [Masterclass] Asser Masterclass on investing in Africa will give you a private international law toolkit
      • [New publication] The opening statement of the prosecution in international criminal trials
      • [New publication] Autonomous weapons and the responsibility gap in the ICC statute
      • [Stakeholder report] More attention needed to local stakeholders' and affected communities' engagement with the ICC
      • [Preliminary programme out] Sign up for the international public interest advocacy workshop
      • [Updated programme] Asser Masterclass on investing in Africa
      • [Call for papers] Artificial intelligence: the new frontier of business and human rights
      • [10th Annual PhD Day] 'A safe space for PhD researchers to test ideas'
      • KNAW award for Asser Associate Fellow Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
      • [Interview] with Asser researcher Chukwuma Okoli
      • [New SCL lecture] Visualising the Mladic Trial
      • [Global City project] Defence day for two Asser PhD researchers
      • [In the media] Final ruling for Mladić on genocide conviction
      • [Programme and registration] Fourth annual NNHRR conference: human rights and vulnerability
      • Asser researcher in parliamentary roundtable on the threat of repatriation of former IS fighters
      • [Call for papers] Method, methodology and critique in international law
      • One year of MATRA: strengthening Ukraine's capacity to investigate and prosecute international crimes
      • [Interview] Researcher Rumyana van Ark: The legacy of the War on Terror
      • [Interview] Researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi: "“States have used the law as a tool to legitimise intrusive security practices, which put individual liberties at risk”
      • [ New scholarships available ] Join our Disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training
      • [Annual Report 2020] ‘The year of Zoom’
      • [New podcast] Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know
      • Call for papers: ‘Ecocide as an international crime: Perspectives from domestic and international law’
      • [Opening Academic Year] Janne Nijman: 'Sharing ideas to help shape a post-COVID world'
      • Research collaboration between the Hofstad Lyceum and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
      • [Apply now] Nuffic MENA scholarships for law courses for young professionals 2021
      • Thilo Marauhn appointed Extraordinary Professor of International Arms Control Law
      • [Interview] Ernst Hirsch Ballin: ‘The ability to see ‘us in them’ is decisive for the whole issue of migration’
      • [Global City project] PhD defence day for Miha Marčenko on the role of the city in international law and governance
      • [Updated programme] The art and international law laboratory: experiences of justice
      • [New publication] The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
      • Researcher Sofia Stolk: “We should never stop asking questions, and art can be a way to do that”
      • [New publication] War crimes units: Legislative, organisational and technical lessons
      • [New essay] Urban Legacies of 9/11: An International Law Perspective
      • [New essay] ‘Monopolisation - Concentrated power and economic embeddings in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence’
      • [Interview] Asser researcher Christophe Paulussen: It was an interview with Benjamin Ferencz, which pushed me to the field of international criminal law
      • [Blog Symposium] Delocalized Justice: the delocalization of corporate accountability for human rights violations originating in Africa
      • [Annual Lecture] Europe’s role in the world: player or plaything?
      • [Research paper] ‘Evidentiary and charging matters in the context of prosecuting returning foreign fighters before national courts’
      • [New publication] Research handbook on international law and cities
      • [Call for papers] Law and ethics of AI in the public sector
      • [New research project] ‘The challenge of populist memory politics for Europe: Towards effective responses to militant legislation on the past (MEMOCRACY)’
      • [Apply now] Nuffic OKP scholarships for law courses for young professionals 2021
      • [Policy brief] ‘Third Revised Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Comments and Recommendations’
      • [Research handbook launch] Cities and their global networks
      • Asser researcher Thilo Marauhn re-elected to the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
      • [Asser in the media] ‘Security risks can be better managed if the people detained in Syrian camps are repatriated in a controlled manner’
      • [Interview] Brigid Laffan on the geo-political threats facing Europe: ‘The rest of the world is tired of our preaching’
      • [New research paper] ‘Family courts as part of states’ counter-terrorism toolkit: A welcome development for the children of FTFs?’
      • Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2021 for PhD thesis by Yousra Benfquih: ‘A book that challenges readers to react’
      • [Interview] Asser researcher Tarik Gherbaoui: ‘With my research I aim to reach the decision-makers in the field of counter-terrorism’
      • [Op-ed] Christophe Paulussen: “Nationality deprivation in the interest of national security: on symbolism, irrationality and the 'evaluation' of a flawed law”
      • Goals for the New Year? Register now for our 2022 training programmes
      • [Interview] Tomasz Zurek: ‘Soon, autonomous military devices will appear in almost every conflict in the world'
      • Asser visiting fellow in parliamentary roundtable on Afghanistan
      • A new year and a new research agenda: ‘Rethinking public interests in international and European law’
      • [Online symposium] Decolonisation and human rights - the Dutch case
      • [New publication] Global Europe Book Series: The informalisation of the EU's external action in the field of migration and asylum
      • [New blog post] ‘Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare’
      • Research funding for ELSA Lab Defence project on military artificial intelligence
      • Janne Nijman new chair supervisory board of the World Press Photo Foundation
      • [Inter-university programme] Kicking off the tenth season of the Lebanon Lecture Series
      • Freedom of expression in the Olympic Movement
      • [Interview] Asser researcher Sadjad Soltanzadeh: ‘It is important for us to study human activities as much as we study any technological object’
      • [ICL-TCL training] Strengthening domestic capacity to prosecute international and transnational crimes in Africa
      • The attack on Ukraine violates the most fundamental rules of international law
      • [Interview] Arms control law chair Thilo Marauhn: ‘We need to adapt current arms control law to address new political challenges’
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