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[Interview] Researcher Sofia Stolk: “We should never stop asking questions, and art can be a way to do that”
4 October 2021Art and international law, it does seem an uneasy combination – international law being strict, rigid, and all about the application of the rules, and art which tends to bend and question those very same rules. But researcher Sofia Stolk thrives in this no man...
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New publication: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
28 September 2021The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius, a brand new publication by Randall Lesaffer and Janne E. Nijman, offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). Grotius lived through a ...
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[Updated programme] The art and international law laboratory: experiences of justice
27 September 2021How can legal professionals use art to identify and overcome legal, ethical, and social challenges? Four artists from various disciplines will offer a fresh and inspiring perspective on safeguarding the dignity, safety and well-being of participants in legal p...
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[Global City project] PhD defence day for Miha Marčenko on the role of the city in international law and governance
17 September 2021On Wednesday September 22, Asser PhD researcher Miha Marčenko will defend his doctoral thesis on 'The Role of the City as a Discursive Practice in International Law and Governance', in the Agnietenkapel (16.00 hrs CET) of the University of Amsterdam. Superviso...
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[Interview] Ernst Hirsch Ballin: ‘The ability to see ‘us in them’ is decisive for the whole issue of migration’
16 September 2021 By Narin Idriz & Pascal MesserHe has been a state councillor, a politician, the longest serving minister of Justice in the Netherlands since the early 19th century, president of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, but above all, he is a legal scholar and a jurist. Later this month, Ernst Hirsch Ba...