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[Out now] Video on Mexico v Smith & Wesson discussion of transnational civil litigation and corporate liability for gun violence
24 May 2022On 2 May, the Mexican Embassy in The Hague – in collaboration with the Asser Institute and the University of Amsterdam - organised an in-depth discussion on the groundbreaking case of Mexico v. Smith & Wesson filed last August in the District Court of Mass...
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[Announcement] Academic director Janne E. Nijman: “This is a good time to step down, the Asser Institute is well-positioned for the future.”
19 May 2022At the end of this academic year, Janne E. Nijman will step down as chairperson of the executive board and academic director of the T.M.C. Asser Institute. Under her leadership, Nijman successfully repositioned the Asser Institute as an internationally recogni...
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[Out now] Video and interview with Prof. Brigid Laffan on Europe and the hardening of geopolitics
19 May 2022On May 10, in a packed Peace Palace in The Hague, Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture speaker and political scientist Prof. Brigid Laffan addressed the European dependencies and vulnerabilities in relation to the war in Ukraine, and in the context of a hardening of ge...
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[New research papers] Artificial intelligence and warfare
18 May 2022As part of the Asser Institute research paper series, Asser researchers Berenice Boutin, Taylor Woodcock and Tomasz Zurek from the research strand ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ and part of the Designing Inte...
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[New blog post] Limiting the veto in the face of jus cogens violations: Russia’s latest (ab)use of the veto
12 May 2022In a new blog post for international law blog OpinioJuris, Asser Institute intern Florent Beurret discusses Russia’s latest (ab)use of the veto in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, while arguing that existing veto limits in the face of jus cogens violations need...