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[Call for papers] The legal implications of the EU's geopolitical awakening
19 January 2024The T.M.C. Asser Instituut's Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) and Leiden University are inviting current PhD scholars and early career researchers to submit abstracts for a two-day PhD workshop on the legal implications of the EU's "geopolit...
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Universities across the MENA region join the inter-university programme on international criminal law and procedure
17 January 2024The Hague - Today, we launched the 13th edition of the Inter-University Programme on International Criminal Law and Procedure (IUP), organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in collaboration with La Sagesse University in Lebanon and IUSTICOM. This year, the IUP...
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Is mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence a paper tiger? Lessons from the French experience
16 January 2024 By Virginie RouasIn 2017, France became the first country to enact a due diligence law, the Law on the Duty of Vigilance, requiring large French companies to identify risks and prevent serious human rights, health and safety, and environmental harms in their supply chain. The ...
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[Interview] Shelter city research fellow Omar Piñango: “We are on a path to justice”
21 December 2023 By Sara Urso & Pascal MesserOmar Piñango is a Venezuelan lawyer and human rights defender who is working with the NGO Defiende Venezuela to document crimes against humanity in the country. In the past three months he was also a Shelter City Research Fellow at the Asser Institute in The H...
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Landmark decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union will reshape transnational sports governance
21 December 2023Three landmark decisions in the International Skating Union (ISU), the European Super League (ESL), and Royal Antwerp cases by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) redefine the relationship between EU law and sports in the most important intervent...