Asser Today

Two terrorist incidents took place yesterday, one in Russia and the other in Spain. Terrorism is here to stay, but it is becoming more and more difficult to combat global terrorism while protecting people’s fundamental rights. In the past years, many states ha...

Thirty four chemical weapon attacks were documented in Syria since 2013. In one incident alone, in 2017, over eighty people were killed. As North Korea’s nuclear programme is still developing, and the American-Iranian relations are tensed, concerns over intern...

Christophe Paulussen, senior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and coordinator of its research strand on Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European Law, is the new Editor in Chief of the Security and Human Rights Monitor (SHRM). The...

We are pleased to have successfully wrapped up our first summer course on International Lawyering in a Public Interest (ILPI). The course attracted a diverse group of participants, from practitioners to academics, NGO workers to advocates, and students to seas...

We are pleased to announce this call for early career researchers, including PhDs, post-docs, and junior faculty, for a masterclass with Dr. Veronika Fikfak (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Sara Dezalay (Cardiff University), on 20 November at The Asser Instit...