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[Call for papers] Delocalised justice: The transnationalisation of corporate accountability for human rights violations originating in Africa
18 November 2020AfronomicsLaw and the Asser Institute’s Doing Business Right project have a call for papers on ‘Delocalised Justice: The transnationalisation of corporate accountability for human rights violations originating in Africa’. Background More than twenty years...
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[In the media] Andrew Murray: The use of AI may disrupt democracy and the rule of law
18 November 2020In anticipation of the sixth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture (26 November), Prof. Andrew Murray spoke to Dutch newspaper NRC and international law blog OpinioJuris about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the rule of law and the need for interna...
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[Blog] Beyond AI ethics: International law and human rights for AI accountability
16 November 2020 By Berenice BoutinAsser senior researcher Berenice Boutin recently published a short piece in which she cautioned about the negative implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and discussed the role of international law as a regulatory mechanism for this technology. ‘While th...
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[SCL Lecture] Sexual terrorism
6 November 2020On Thursday 10 December 2020 (Human Rights Day), the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in cooperation with IMPACT: Center against Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict, will organise a supranational criminal law (SCL) lecture on ‘sexual terrorism’. The onli...
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[Launch of the DILEMA lecture series] Rebecca Crootof on ‘Artificial intelligence, autonomous weapon systems, and accidents in war’
5 November 2020The DILEMA Project, led by Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin, is launching a new lecture series on legal, ethical, and technical perspectives on human agency over military Artificial Intelligence (AI). The DILEMA lecture series invites academics and o...