On 3 July 2020, Asser researcher Misha Plagis co-organised an expert round table with the Centre for Human Rights (University of Pretoria). During the round table, 20 experts on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ rights (hereinafter ‘African Court’ or ‘Co...

In December 2020, the Asser Institute will launch a new lecture- and workshop series on ‘Method, methodology and critique in international law’. The aim of the lecture series, targeted at international law researchers, is to explore various new ways of ‘doing’...

Postdoctoral researcher Chukwuma Okoli has recently published a blog on the application of private international law in Nigeria. Additionally, a book he co-authored will be the subject of a symposium in December.   In a blog post for conflictoflaws.net, Okol...

In anticipation of the sixth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture (26 November), Prof. Andrew Murray spoke to Dutch newspaper NRC and international law blog OpinioJuris about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the rule of law and the need for interna...

AfronomicsLaw and the Asser Institute’s Doing Business Right project have a call for papers on ‘Delocalised Justice: The transnationalisation of corporate accountability for human rights violations originating in Africa’.   Background More than twenty years...

Asser senior researcher Berenice Boutin recently published a short piece in which she cautioned about the negative implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and discussed the role of international law as a regulatory mechanism for this technology. ‘While th...

On 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...

The 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...

In 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...