In a new blogpost Asser researcher Dr Misha Plagis asks: “The Nobel Prize for Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed is a cause for celebration. But what about the other half of the deal: the situation of the Eritreans?”        Since 1960, when Albert Lithuli...

While artists and international jurists have many interests in common, they often remain two worlds apart. The Asser Institute research project Imagining Justice aims to change that by seeking cooperation between artists, lawyers and academics for events such ...

In a new blog post, Asser Researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi debunks the self-defense justification that Turkey uses as its warplanes and artillery strike border towns in north-eastern Syria in a bid to reclaim the region from the formerly US-backed Kurdish for...

Shelter City is a worldwide initiative to protect human rights defenders at risk and support them to reclaim their civic space. Dilip Chakma, a lawyer and human rights defender from India, recently started as a Shelter City Research fellow at the Asser Institu...

In recent years, the issue of whether human rights obligations incumbent upon the European Union have an extraterritorial scope has gained much salience. Recent developments, such as the Western Sahara litigation before the CJEU, attest to the increasing signi...

Check out five new case analyses that we added to the International Crimes Database, our extensive online collection of international crimes broadly defined, such as genocide, war crimes, terrorism and piracy. The International Crimes Database website of the ...

The summer transfer window, the period when football clubs sign new players coming from other teams, is now closed in Europe. During the transfer window, the sports news arena is swarmed with the latest deals signed between major clubs and prominent football p...

Registration will open soon for our highly successful Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law. In the second edition of this unique and innovative training, you will get the latest insights into the current and future issues raised by A...

Today is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, a day that celebrates and promotes the principles of democracy worldwide. In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that encouraged organisations and member states to strengthe...