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[New essay] ‘Monopolisation - Concentrated power and economic embeddings in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence’
8 October 2021US and EU regulators are focusing on the market power and monopolistic behaviour of big tech firms. However, they tend to focus mostly on the conduct and market position of online platforms, while ignoring the underlying technologies by which they operate. But...
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[New essay] Urban legacies of 9/11: An international law perspective
6 October 2021In a new essay on constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog, researchers Helmut Philipp Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) and Janne E. Nijman (Asser Institute) point to the missing urban dimension in the international law debates on the attacks of 9/11: “Internati...
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[New publication] War crimes units: Legislative, organisational and technical lessons
5 October 2021'War Crimes Units: Legislative, Organisational and Technical Lessons', a new report written by Karolina Aksamitowska for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut/Global Rights Compliance MATRA-Ukraine project, provides an overview of best practices drawn from domestic war c...
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[Interview] Researcher Sofia Stolk: “We should never stop asking questions, and art can be a way to do that”
4 October 2021Art and international law, it does seem an uneasy combination – international law being strict, rigid, and all about the application of the rules, and art which tends to bend and question those very same rules. But researcher Sofia Stolk thrives in this no man...
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New publication: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
28 September 2021The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius, a brand new publication by Randall Lesaffer and Janne E. Nijman, offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). Grotius lived through a ...