In the recently published book ‘Children’s Rights, “Foreign Fighters”, Counter-Terrorism: Children of Nowhere,’ Asser senior researcher Rumyana van Ark and her co-authors call for policymakers to incorporate a more child-centric approach to counter-terrorism. ...

In a post for European Law Blog, Ewa Romanowska (Asser Institute) criticises a recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The court dismissed a human rights lawsuit brought by Syrian asylum seekers against Frontex, the EU's border ag...

On 6 and 7 November 2024, the Asser Institute is hosting an expert workshop on rules of engagement (ROE) for military artificial intelligence (AI) systems. As a tool used by commanders to provide clear instructions for military forces, could rules of engagemen...

A new blog post by Asser Institute researchers James Patrick Sexton and Victoria Kerr analyses the EU’s recent decision to send profits from frozen Russian Central Bank assets to Ukraine. Estimated to amount to around €3 billion per year, Sexton and Kerr argue...

Asser Institute’s researcher, Dr Jonathan Kwik’s new book explores the practical and legal challenges of deploying autonomous weapon systems (AWS) in the context of quickly advancing artificial intelligence (AI). AI, once a more unknown technology, is now inex...

International lawyers constantly (re)shape the world around them in legally relevant terms, whether as scholars, teachers, advisors, or judges, and they do so through many different forms. The writing of journal articles and books, for instance, has long been ...

The Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) Knowledge Hub, an open-access online resource developed by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), has just been updated to incorporate recent developments surrounding states’ r...

In a recent interview, Asser researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz highlights conflict of laws as a crucial yet overlooked foundation of international human rights law.  Despite its enormous growth in importance, the History of International Law has so far w...

Utrecht University and the Asser Institute are calling for papers to contribute to a critical examination of the human role in military artificial intelligence. The interdisciplinary workshop, titled "Who are ‘humans’ in military AI?", will take place in Utrec...