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[Exhibition] ‘Lens on law: Edges of proximity’
30 January 2025The T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Royal Academy of Art The Hague proudly present “Lens on law: Edges of proximity” - a collective exhibition in West Den Haag, that explores the intersection of international law and visual arts. From 28 February until 14 March...
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[Update] The Foreign Terrorist Fighters Knowledge Hub
29 January 2025The Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) Knowledge Hub, an open-access online resource developed by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), has just been updated to incorporate recent developments surrounding states’ r...
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[New publication] Are courts effectively protecting individual rights? Rule of law backsliding on national security matters
22 January 2025In their new article, researchers Rumyana van Ark and Tarik Gherbaoui examine the intersection between national security measures, judicial deference, and the rule of law. They highlight the dangers of normalising expansive national security provisions which c...
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[Interview] Shelter City Research Fellow Lou: Documenting children's rights in the Philippines
21 January 2025 By Audrey NguyenLou*, a Filipina human rights defender with a local human rights network, is dedicated to documenting gross human rights violations against children and young people in her country. As a Shelter City Research Fellow at the Asser Institute, she is investigating...
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[New publication] The global debate on hate speech and its criminalisation
20 January 2025A new publication entitled ‘Criminalising Hate Speech: A Comparative Study’ (Asser Press), edited by Eric Heinze, focuses on the complex and urgent issue of hate speech. This is the world’s first publication to offer detailed, country-by-country studies from i...