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[Interview] Visiting researcher Kathleen Claussen: ‘Sustainability, trade and security go hand in hand’
27 March 2023 By Melanie SchneiderProfessor Kathleen Claussen (Georgetown University Law Center), is a visiting researcher at the Asser Institute through June 2023. Claussen is the author of more than forty articles and essays on trade, investment, and international dispute settlement. She has...
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[Shelter City] Call for applications for Asser Institute visiting research fellowship
23 March 2023Justice & Peace Netherlands has launched a new call for applications for human rights defenders at risk to participate in Shelter City in the Netherlands in September 2023. The Hague-based Asser Institute is hosting one Shelter City Fellow per year. The de...
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[New book chapter] Autonomous weapons
23 March 2023In a new book chapter forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing, Magdalena Pacholska demystifies autonomous weapons systems (AWS); identifies the main legal issues they might possibly pose and offers possible solutions. The chapter is designed to serve as a che...
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[New publication] Ecocide: the environment as victim at the International Criminal Court
21 March 2023The existing legal framework of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) allows for the recognition of nonhumans as victims of ecocide, argues Giovanna Frisso (University of Lincoln) in the new ICD Brief ‘Ecocide: the environment as victim at...
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[New publication] Overlooking continuity: National minorities and ‘timeless’ human rights
14 March 2023In the book chapter ‘Overlooking Continuity: National Minorities and ‘Timeless’ Human Rights’, Asser Institute researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz critiques the dominant approach to national minorities in human rights discourse. The author argues that this ...