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New blog: The Shamima Begum case: ‘Revoking citizenship is ineffective and counterproductive’
22 February 2019The decision to revoke Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship is not only ineffective, but it also creates a number of legal and diplomatic problems, according to Asser Institute counter-terrorism experts Drs Christophe Paulussen and Rumyana Grozdanova. Instead, the U...
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Call for papers – 3rd Annual International Sports Law Conference of the International Sports Law Journal
21 February 2019The Editors of the International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) invite you to submit abstracts for the third ISLJ Annual Conference on International Sports Law, which will take place on 24 and 25 October 2019 at the Asser Institute in The Hague. The ISLJ, published...
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Cities and international law in the Urban Age
19 February 2019On 14 & 15 March the Asser Institute will host an international conference on the internationalisation of cities: Cities and international law in the Urban Age. The conference is part of Asser’s research project on global cities and international law, ‘The...
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Asser in the press: Chagos islands case before the International Court of Justice
18 February 2019On Monday the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague delivered an advisory opinion on the legal battle between Britain and its former colony Mauritius over the fate of the Chagos Islands archipelago. Asser expert Dimitri van den Meerssche was interv...
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Cross borders with the Asser Institute @ Movies that Matter Festival 2019
13 February 2019In the films that are part of the Camera Justitia programme at the Movies that Matter Festival 2019, it becomes clear that law is instrumental in the making or breaking of borders. Borders demarcate separation; between states, between guilt and innocence, betw...