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[Call for Papers] Law and governance of a global city: 17th-century Amsterdam
7 July 2019Four hundred years ago, like today, globalisation and urbanisation impacted the world’s cities. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the afflux of trade and migrants prompted rapid economic and demographic growth, resulting in dynamic multicultural urban life and...
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‘FIFA and Human Rights’ symposium kicked off on Verfassungsblog
4 July 2019Today the Verfassungsblog kicked off a symposium on ‘FIFA and Human Rights’ in the framework of its long-term collaboration agreement with the Asser Institute. This symposium will feature eight blog posts each focusing on different issues related to FIFA and...
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Will a Dutch man who fought in Syria be stripped of his citizenship?
4 July 2019A Dutch-Moroccan citizen is waiting for a court to decide whether his Dutch nationality will be revoked after he admitted to fighting in Syria. Although his name was removed from the terrorist watch list in 2018, Maher could still lose his Dutch citizenship. ...
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Asser president Hirsch Ballin presents a report on human rights and sustainable development
3 July 2019Sustainable development and human rights policies should go hand in hand, said Asser President Ernst Hirsch Ballin yesterday, when he presented Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sigrid Kaag and Hans De Boer, Chair of the Dutch employers'...
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Nine scholarships available for the disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme
26 June 2019T.M.C. Asser Instituut is happy to announce that we have nine scholarships available for applicants interested in our disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme. The one-week programme, co-organised with the OPCW, is ta...