Asser Today

What role do Geneva and The Hague, two UN cities, and their professional communities play in contributing to peace, human rights and international justice? This question was discussed on June 7th, 2018, at a Hague Talks event in Geneva organised by the Dutch P...

Last week, Asser Institute researchers Antoine Duval and Catherine Dunmore released a new policy brief entitled ‘The Case for a Court of Arbitration for Business and Human Rights’. In this short Q&A, Antoine Duval provides some background to the context an...

On the 5th of June, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed a long-awaited decision on the Coman case, unequivocally interpreting the word “spouse” in EU Citizenship Directive as covering also married same-sex partners. In practice, this means that s...

The laureates of the four freedoms awards this year (a diplomat, a journalist, a Bishop, a conservationist, and an ardent human rights activist) are people fighting their battles on different fronts, but they all have one aim in common: to make the world a bet...

In May 2018, Asser researcher Dr Bérénice Boutin was awarded research funding by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung to conduct an eighteen-month research project on the ‘Conceptual and Policy Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military Technologies for State Respo...