Asser Institute researcher Virginie Rouas focuses on the interplay between business and human rights on the one hand, and access to justice, artificial intelligence, and the human rights and environmental impacts of the green transition on the other. She is cu...

Leaving the court every time the alarm goes off and working around power cuts that have halved working days to four hours. These are some of the working conditions of judges in Ukraine. The potential war crimes cases being investigated now amount to 36.000. Ho...

In a report for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Marta Bo with Laura Bruun and Vincent Boulanin tackle how humans can be held responsible for violations of international humanitarian law involving autonomous weapons systems. As t...

Senior researcher and head of the Asser Institute’s International Sports Law Centre Antoine Duval highlights the global struggle to force the football organisation FIFA to take responsibility for labour rights abuses suffered by migrant workers in Qatar. In an...

On Monday 14 November, the Asser Institute and Global Rights Compliance (GRC) co-organised the conference ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s national efforts to investigate, prosecute, adjudicate and report on international crimes’. The conference - which was fully book...

Last month, the Asser Institute began a new project to investigate the potential of big data technologies in the context of the due diligence process for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Human rights and environmental du...

During a three-month stay in The Hague, visiting research fellow Ali Erdoğan focuses on human rights and same-sex marriages in EU law. “I would like to make some changes in this world with regard to LGBTIQ+ rights. And I believe that I can achieve this throug...

Registration will soon open for the 5th edition of our annual Spring Academy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and international law. Pre-register now to be notified when registration opens and to stay up to date on the latest news regarding the event. This trai...

In a new podcast episode by On Air, Asser Institute researcher Taylor Woodcock discusses today’s ‘overshadowing focus on autonomous weapon systems (aws) in warfare’, and the consequential lack of attention to other military applications of artificial intellige...