Digital technology has been at the forefront of the US-China trade war. The tensions have in part led the US government to initiate the export control of emerging technologies, including, not only advanced information technology, but also robotics, brain-compu...

Terrorist attacks have triggered an increase in security-related legislative provisions across the world. A wide range of new or updated administrative and criminal law measures is meant to bolster states’ ability to respond to acts of terrorism, and to addres...

In a recent interview with the Spanish language podcast Hablemos de Derecho Internacional, Asser researcher Dr León Castellanos-Jankiewicz has argued that the Trump administration is using the coronavirus pandemic for discriminatory purposes and continues to b...

Weapons of Mass Destruction have recently re-entered the international political stage. After many years in which there was relatively little attention for these weapons and the agreements dealing with them, chemical weapons were used in Syria, Malaysia and th...

Across the globe, social movements have been mobilising for racial justice and equality after the brutal killings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States. Asser researcher Dimitri Van Den Meerssche interviewed international lawyer Nawi Ukabiala ...

This weekend marked 25 years since the start of the genocide in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, where over the course of eleven days, more than eight thousand people were killed. Asser researcher Dr Berenice Boutin and Dr Nataša Nedeski (Universiteit van A...

With the growing realisation that the inter-state system may fail us in the struggle to keep a safe distance from planetary boundaries, the need to find alternative governance models is more acute than ever. Should cities and urban governance take the lead in...

This morning the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands does not have to repatriate a group of 23 Dutch women and their 56 children currently detained in Northern Syria. Asser counterterrorism researchers Dr Christophe Pauluss...

On Friday June 26, the Municipality of The Hague and T.M.C. Asser Instituut convened the online closing plenary of the 2020 virtual annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). This prestigious society aims to foster the study of interna...