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...

The International Crimes Database (ICD), a publicly accessible online resource maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, has recently been updated. Seven new case summaries have been added, reflecting the latest developments in international criminal justice a...

The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is seeking a visionary academic director to lead its research and educational initiatives. As chair of the two-member executive board, the academic director will collaborate closely with the managing director to oversee the institute...

In a new blog post, Asser Institute researcher Gabriela Radu writes that after decades of delays and debates, Ukraine is finally on the brink of joining the International Criminal Court. While the ratification of the Rome Statute is a significant step, the cou...