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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...
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[Register now] Online winter academy 'Artificial intelligence and international law'
2 November 2020In February 2021, the Asser Institute will host its third annual winter academy on ‘Artificial intelligence and international law.’ This state-of-the-art winter academy will be hosted in an online format and take place over six days, split across two weeks: 10...
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[Consolidation] ‘The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research now incorporates all Dutch law schools’
29 October 2020The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR), one of the inter-university platforms coordinated by the Asser Institute, recently welcomed three Dutch universities to its membership and saw its mandate renewed for three more years. ‘The NNHRR has f...
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[New publication] Countering cyber terrorism in a time of 'war on words’: the case of France
27 October 2020A lack of legal clarity, an extensive administrative discretion, and the related limited judicial review are some of the problems with France’s counter-terrorism policy to regulate online content, writes Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi in a contributio...