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[Announcement] Academic director Janne E. Nijman: “This is a good time to step down, the Asser Institute is well-positioned for the future.”
19 May 2022At the end of this academic year, Janne E. Nijman will step down as chairperson of the executive board and academic director of the T.M.C. Asser Institute. Under her leadership, Nijman successfully repositioned the Asser Institute as an internationally recogni...
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[New research papers] Artificial intelligence and warfare
18 May 2022As part of the Asser Institute research paper series, Asser researchers Berenice Boutin, Taylor Woodcock and Tomasz Zurek from the research strand ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ and part of the Designing Inte...
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[New blog post] Limiting the veto in the face of jus cogens violations: Russia’s latest (ab)use of the veto
12 May 2022In a new blog post for international law blog OpinioJuris, Asser Institute intern Florent Beurret discusses Russia’s latest (ab)use of the veto in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, while arguing that existing veto limits in the face of jus cogens violations need...
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[Book review] James Patrick Sexton reviews ‘Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law’, edited by Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann
4 May 2022James Patrick Sexton, junior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, recently published a book review of Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann’s edited volume, Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law (Elgar 2021), in the Journal of Internatio...
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[Interview] León Castellanos-Jankiewicz: ‘Mexico is serious about making the US gun industry accountable for the damages caused with their products’
22 April 2022 By Diva EstantoAsser Institute researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is actively following the Mexico v. Smith & Wesson litigation, initiated by Mexico against six U.S. gun manufacturers, a potentially game-changing case for gun control. The ins and outs of the case wil...
