T.M.C. Asser Instituut project ‘The Global City’ and the University College Roosevelt project ‘Cities of Refuge’ invite researchers, from different disciplines, to submit abstracts for an edited volume on the urban politics of human rights. In recent years, at...

Currently, private international law - a specialised branch of law which resolves cases between private persons or companies which have an element of conflicting foreign law - has no real place in Africa yet. But with the increasing international trade with Af...

Sign up now to advance your career! Registration is open for our unique 2020 winter academies. [Winter academy] Artificial intelligence & international law (20 - 24 January 2020) In the second edition of our highly successful, unique and innovative winter ...

Today Nobel peace prize laureate and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will defend Myanmar in an extraordinary case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Suu Kyi will lead the legal defence team of her country against charges of genocide against ...

This week, researchers from the Asser Institute will participate in two important academic events concerning the role of cities in international law at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Renowned academics from all over the world will meet there to discu...

Asser researcher Narin Idriz has been appointed as a member of the permanent commission on Human Rights of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (Adviesraad internationale vraagstrukken, AIV). The AIV is an independent body, which advises the Du...

To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in collaboration with Humanity House and the Visual Human Rights project, are inviting forty high school students from The Hague to participate in the workshop “Human rights visualised....

Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi spoke live on France24’s ‘The Debate’ on France's role in Sahel, the London bridge attack and the fight against terrorism. On 26 November 2019, a helicopter collision killed 13 French troops pursuing Islamic militants i...

Prof. Anne Orford addressed a room packed with guests at our Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on November 28 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. In her speech, Orford said that international treaties need to be more social, democratic and ecological so that the...