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International Court of Justice condemns US for Iran sanctions
4 October 2018The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled in favour of provisional measures for Iran in Iran’s case against the US concerning the unilateral re-imposition of sanctions. The judges unanimously found that the re-imposition of sanctions by the US followi...
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Publish or perish: Why legal scholars need to embrace social media
3 October 2018As U.S. President Trump shows us every day, Twitter is a powerful megaphone to reach and move an audience. In a new article for the Tilburg Law Review, Dr Antoine Duval, senior researcher at T.M.C. Asser Instituut, argues that legal scholars should embrace soc...
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European court dismisses claims by speed skater
2 October 2018In 2009 Claudia Pechstein, a German speed skater, was accused of blood doping and banned from competition for two years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the ban. Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced in its ruling in Mutu ...
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Asser in the press on the Chagos Island case
21 September 2018Asser senior researcher and international law expert Dr Geoff Gordon is quoted in today’s edition of the Spanish newspaper El Pais. He was interviewed for his analysis of the Chagos Archipelago case that is currently being deliberated upon by the International...
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Blog: Who is responsible for the war crimes of killer robots?
21 September 2018The difficulty in determining who is responsible for war crimes committed with the use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) has led to rising legal concerns over their development. States are facing the daunting task of trying to assess the technical, l...