Recently, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-Un made his first public appearance in weeks where he pledged to “further boost its nuclear capabilities”. Around the same time the Trump administration has discussed the US first nuclear test in decades. While t...

  Belarus is the only European country, next to Sweden, that has not imposed quarantine measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Belarusian President has repeatedly denied the scope and seriousness of the pandemic and, instead, held a large military...

Last month, when most of the world was focused on COVID-19, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire withdrew their special declarations from the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. This happened right at a time when things began to look good for one of the most import...

On Monday May 18, T.M.C. Asser Instituut hosted its first online live discussion, in which Asser Institute counterterrorism experts Dr Rumyana van Ark and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi provided a legal perspective on current affairs. In the session Counterterrorism &...

As part of the imagining justice research project, Dr Sofia Stolk has co-published three articles in the past months that emphasise the importance of international law’s physical sites. In the current times of self-isolation and staying home, ‘imagining justic...

From 1-3 July 2020, T.M.C. Asser Instituut is organising and hosting, for the first time, a 3-day online workshop on “International public interest advocacy”. This workshop is available for students, interns, young professionals, and public interest lawyers in...

Join us on Monday, 18 May at 19.00 hours CET for an online live discussion in which two T.M.C. Asser Institute experts will provide you with a legal perspective on current affairs. In the session Counterterrorism – a ‘forever and anywhere war?’ Asser’s counter...

From 28 September until 2 October 2020, The Asser Institute in The Hague will host the eleventh training programme on disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction co-organised with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (O...

The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL), co-published by T.M.C. Asser Press and Springer Publishers, has a call for submissions for its third volume (2021) on the theme of: Rendering advice on constitutional issues in modern polities. The deadline f...