Asser Today

Antoine Duval is a senior researcher at the Asser Institute where he focuses on transnational private regulation and business and human rights. In an article in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, he examines the background of human rights due diligence, in pa...

In a new article for  the European Journal of Human Rights, Tarik Gherbaoui (Asser Institute) and Martin Scheinin (University of Oxford), investigate the dual challenge to human rights law posed by the proliferation of online terrorist content and by recent le...

Brussels I-bis Regulation is the core instrument unifying private international law at the European Union level. In a new handbook, Vesna Lazić and the late professor Peter Mankowski provide a comprehensive overview of the revised Regulation, as well as of the...

In a new article for the Netherlands International Law Review, Daniela Heerdt and Lucas Roorda examine the human rights responsibilities of businesses and sports bodies. Using the participation of the Netherlands in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar as a case s...

In a new blog post for Articles of War, James Patrick Sexton analyses the civilian harm caused by the military coalition established to defeat the Islamic State (ISIL). He concludes that investigations into potential violations of international humanitarian la...