To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in collaboration with Humanity House and the Visual Human Rights project, are inviting forty high school students from The Hague to participate in the workshop “Human rights visualised....

Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi spoke live on France24’s ‘The Debate’ on France's role in Sahel, the London bridge attack and the fight against terrorism. On 26 November 2019, a helicopter collision killed 13 French troops pursuing Islamic militants i...

Prof. Anne Orford addressed a room packed with guests at our Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on November 28 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. In her speech, Orford said that international treaties need to be more social, democratic and ecological so that the...

Asser researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has won a research grant of €615.000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) for the research project “Agency and Compliance by Design in Military AI Technologies”. Bou...

Ahead of her Fifth T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday November 28, Prof. Anne Orford spoke to Dutch newspaper NRC about the need for a fundamental ‘decolonisation of international law’ as we know it. In an interview with NRC journalist Caroline de Gruyter, Orfor...

Four Asser researchers contributed to a comparative research study on radical and extremist hate speakers in European member states published by the The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT). Dr Ulad Belavusau, Dr Berenice Boutin, Dr Rumyana Grozda...

A new season of the Inter-University Programme on International Criminal Law and Procedure begins today. This year, over 550 Lebanese students applied to participate in the programme, by far the highest number to date since the launch of the programme in 2011....

We are very honoured that Sigrid Kaag, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in The Netherlands will join us* as a special guest speaker at the fifth year anniversary of the Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday, 28 November 2019 at a symbol...

Renowned legal scholar Prof. Anne Orford will deliver the Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday, 28 November 2019 at a symbolic place for international law - the Peace Palace in The Hague. Orford's lecture is entitled ‘International Law and the Social ...