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[New publication] Failures to stop autonomous weapon systems as a war crime?
17 October 2023In a new article, researcher Marta Bo explores the issue of holding people accountable for the actions of autonomous weapon systems during wartime. Could individuals be held responsible if they fail to prevent autonomous weapon systems from carrying out illega...
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[Interview] Andrii Nekoliak: “The politics of memory laws can be intense”
16 October 2023 By Lisa AmelineAndrii Nekoliak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Asser Institute, and a member of the MEMOCRACY project. His work centres around legal issues that arise from memory laws, with a particular focus on Ukraine and Russia. “Article 354.1 of the Russian Penal Cod...
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[New article] Addressing online terrorist content through the ‘grammar’ of human rights law
30 September 2023In 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...
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[Interview] Antoine Duval: 'Human rights due diligence is underpinned by a fundamental double movement'
29 September 2023 By Lisa AmelineAntoine 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...
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The Brussels I-bis Regulation: A key legal instrument for unified EU private international law
27 September 2023Brussels 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...