Last Thursday, a German court ordered Germany to repatriate the German wife and three children of a foreign freedom fighter from Syria, in the first such ruling against the government. Like many other EU countries, Germany faces the dilemma of how to deal with...

As the FIFA President Gianni Infantino entered the field after the U.S. national team’s victory, the fans erupted in “equal pay” chants amidst controversies surrounding female footballers’ unfair monetary prizes. But who exactly was supposed to be hearing and ...

The Annual Report 2018 of the Asser Institute is online. The report will give you an impression of the depth, diversity and impact of our research and dissemination activities. It highlights the Asser Institute’s achievements in academic research, trainings &a...

Four hundred years ago, like today, globalisation and urbanisation impacted the world’s cities. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the afflux of trade and migrants prompted rapid economic and demographic growth, resulting in dynamic multicultural urban life and...

A Dutch-Moroccan citizen is waiting for a court to decide whether his Dutch nationality will be revoked after he admitted to fighting in Syria. Although his name was removed from the terrorist watch list in 2018, Maher could still lose his Dutch citizenship. ...

Today the Verfassungsblog kicked off a symposium on ‘FIFA and Human Rights’ in the framework of its long-term collaboration agreement with the Asser Institute.  This symposium will feature eight blog posts each focusing on different issues related to FIFA and...

Sustainable development and human rights policies should go hand in hand, said Asser President Ernst Hirsch Ballin yesterday, when he presented Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sigrid Kaag and Hans De Boer, Chair of the Dutch employers'...

T.M.C. Asser Instituut is happy to announce that we have nine scholarships available for applicants interested in our disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme. The one-week programme, co-organised with the OPCW, is ta...

On Wednesday July 10, Le Club de Droit and T.M.C. Asser Institute are co-organising an event with Philippe Couvreur, the departing Registrar at the ICJ, at the Peace Palace in The Hague.Mr Philippe Couvreur will give a presentation on the functions and respons...