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Inside the Mladic Trial: A Report
8 February 2018From a legal point of view, the most important value of the Mladić case is its discussion surrounding the definition of genocide and the use of the concept of Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE). This was the main message conveyed by Jonas Nilsson, team leader of ...
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Looking Back at Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism Conference
7 February 2018‘Terrorist attacks cannot destroy the values on which our societies are grounded – but laws and policies can.’ This quote by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein set up the paradigm for the conference ‘Human Dignity and Human Securit...
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Highlights: "Contemporary Constraints on the Waging of War: A Tribute to Prof. Frits Kalshoven”
6 February 2018Over 80 people gathered at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut on 16 January 2018, to attend a lecture commemorating the work and life of late Prof. Frits Kalshoven, who passed away on 6 September 2017 at the age of 93. Following the introductory remarks, Dr. Robert H...
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Restoring Trust in the Rule of Law
5 February 2018The goal of terrorism is to undermine trust in the rule of law, and unfortunately, this may also happen because of some political responses to terrorism. In his new SSRN ASSER research paper ‘Restoring trust in the rule of law’, Prof. Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Pres...
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Asser’s Academic Director to teach ‘History of the Idea of International Law’ in Geneva
2 February 2018T.M.C. Asser Instituut’s Board Member and Academic Director Prof. Dr. Janne Nijman, will be teaching a course at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva this spring. Nijman, who is also a professor of History and Theory of In...