On Wednesday 21 October 2020 at 13:00, former Asser researcher Marina Ban will defend her doctoral thesis on the topic of ‘The Legal Governance of Historical Memory and the Rule of Law’. The dissertation examines selected states’ treatment of their past and ev...

Asser researcher Dr Rumyana van Ark (née Grozdanova) recently authored a forthcoming publication on the ‘War on Terror’ and why the legacies of this ‘war’ still resonate today . Rumyana’s publication is now available on Asser’s SSRN page.    Ark, R van 'The ...

From border control practices to the use of facial recognition technologies in the streets; a wide variety of security practices can be used – or misused - by governments to prevent terrorism. What do you know about these technologies?    Join us on Friday 2...

Registration is now open for the 2021 winter academy on ‘Doing business right: due diligence as a master key to responsible business conduct’ (25 - 29 January).  Click here to register to take part in an exciting week of learning, thinking and discussing about...

Oxford University Press recently published the Liber Amicorum ‘Constitutionalism under Stress: Essays in Honour of Wojciech Sadurski’, co-edited by Asser Senior Researcher Dr Uladzislau Belavusau and Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias (Polish Science Academy)...

The Hague, 8 October 2020 – Today, Geert ten Dam, president of the executive board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Ernst Hirsch Ballin, chairperson of the supervisory board of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, unveiled a new nameplate with two logos to celebrat...

In 2021, the Asser Institute’s winter academies on ‘Due diligence as a master key to responsible business conduct’ and ‘Artificial intelligence and international law’ will return in an online format. Click on the 'registration' and ‘pre-registration’ links bel...

How does datafication, the reduction of the complexity of the world to data values, threaten the Rule of Law? Why should we focus on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) rather than on ethics? Could human agency be superseded by algorithmic decision-...

This week, the constitutional law blog, Verfassungsblog, is holding a symposium on the legal and policy implications of the increased informalisation of the EU’s external action in the field of migration and asylum. This trend, and topic of an upcoming interdi...