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[Asser in the media] ‘Security risks can be better managed if the people detained in Syrian camps are repatriated in a controlled manner’
23 November 2021In a news item on the repatriation of French and other European women and children detained in camps in North East Syria, Asser researcher Christophe Paulussen stresses that the inaction of EU politicians in bringing back former Islamic State fighters and thei...
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[Interview] Asser researcher Christophe Paulussen: “It was an interview with Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, which pushed me to the field of international criminal law”
11 October 2021[Interview] Asser researcher Christophe Paulussen: “It was an interview with Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, which pushed me to the field of international criminal law” Dr Christophe Paulussen is a senior researcher at the T.M.C. As...
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[New publication] War crimes units: Legislative, organisational and technical lessons
5 October 2021'War Crimes Units: Legislative, Organisational and Technical Lessons', a new report written by Karolina Aksamitowska for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut/Global Rights Compliance MATRA-Ukraine project, provides an overview of best practices drawn from domestic war c...
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Thilo Marauhn appointed Extraordinary Professor of International Arms Control Law
13 September 2021Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn (58) has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of International Arms Control Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Marauhn will conduct research on international arms control agreements and their compliance. T...
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[Interview] Researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi: “States have used the law as a tool to legitimise intrusive security practices, which put individual liberties at risk”
16 August 2021 By Megan Gethin & Zofia KostrzewaRebecca Mignot-Mahdavi is a counter-terrorism researcher, whose work focuses on our evolving legal and policy capacity to deal with security threats. In a number of recent publications, Mignot-Mahdavi questioned the legality of France’s air strikes in the Sahe...