The Asser Institute is partnering with the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Antonio Cassese Initiative to co-organise a seminar on international and transnational criminal law (ICL and TCL). The seminar will be held as a closed event in The H...

In an upcoming book chapter titled “Individual Terrorist Suspects as the New Folk Devil: New Labour, Rights Tokenism and Security Compulsions”, T.M.C. Asser Instituut's researcher Dr Rumyana van Ark (née Grozdanova) examines the long-term implications of New L...

Today there are many influential women working in international law. However, one needs a looking glass to find influential women in international legal history. To celebrate International Women’s Day, Prof Dr. Janne E. Nijman, academic director of T.M.C. Asse...

The Asser Institute is proud to announce that Professor Yishai Blank, a pioneer in the research of cities and international law, will be the keynote speaker for the opening of the research conference Cities and international law in the Urban Age on 13 March 20...

The Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research (NNHRR), which connects Dutch human rights researchers and is coordinated by the Asser Institute, will host its annual research day (‘Toogdag’) on 20 and 21 June at Maastricht University. The topic of the upcomi...

The decision to revoke Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship is not only ineffective, but it also creates a number of legal and diplomatic problems, according to Asser Institute counter-terrorism experts Drs Christophe Paulussen and Rumyana Grozdanova. Instead, the U...

The Editors of the International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) invite you to submit abstracts for the third ISLJ Annual Conference on International Sports Law, which will take place on 24 and 25 October 2019 at the Asser Institute in The Hague. The ISLJ, published...

On 14 & 15 March the Asser Institute will host an international conference on the internationalisation of cities: Cities and international law in the Urban Age. The conference is part of Asser’s research project on global cities and international law, ‘The...

On Monday the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague delivered an advisory opinion on the legal battle between Britain and its former colony Mauritius over the fate of the Chagos Islands archipelago. Asser expert Dimitri van den Meerssche was interv...