The rise of technology has allowed for the more prolific permeation of different types of visual evidence in the courtroom. Whether and under what conditions visual evidence can be admitted in courts has been discussed for a long time, but it is now more than ...

A new biography on legal scholar and practitioner Tobias Asser, the name giver of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, traces the life of a public intellectual and the broader history of ideas. Asser Institute president Ernst Hirsch Ballin wrote the foreword to the two-vol...

Do the practices of city branding and human rights promotion and implementation go together? Are the branding possibilities merely a bonus when a local government self-identifies as a ‘human rights city’? Asser researcher at the Global City Project Lisa Rooden...

How do terrorists aim to attract attention and support for their claimed goals? How do states attempt to undermine the legitimacy claims of the terrorists and endeavour to gain or regain public trust and confidence? These are only some of the questions one of...

The International Law Association (ILA) study group on "the Role of Cities in International Law", the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Freie Universität Berlin invite researchers to submit abstracts for reports on city practices in relation to international law....

Last Thursday, a German court ordered Germany to repatriate the German wife and three children of a foreign freedom fighter from Syria, in the first such ruling against the government. Like many other EU countries, Germany faces the dilemma of how to deal with...

As the FIFA President Gianni Infantino entered the field after the U.S. national team’s victory, the fans erupted in “equal pay” chants amidst controversies surrounding female footballers’ unfair monetary prizes. But who exactly was supposed to be hearing and ...

The Annual Report 2018 of the Asser Institute is online. The report will give you an impression of the depth, diversity and impact of our research and dissemination activities. It highlights the Asser Institute’s achievements in academic research, trainings &a...

Four hundred years ago, like today, globalisation and urbanisation impacted the world’s cities. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the afflux of trade and migrants prompted rapid economic and demographic growth, resulting in dynamic multicultural urban life and...