In a new paper, Asser Institute researcher Marta Bo examines when programmers may be held criminally responsible for harms caused by self-driving cars and autonomous weapons. Partially automated driver-assist systems were involved in hundreds of crashes in th...

In a new paper, Asser Institute senior researcher Bérénice Boutin explores the conditions and modalities under which a state can incur responsibility in relation to violations of international law involving military applications of artificial intelligence (AI)...

In a new blog post on Just Security, Asser Institute international law researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz and international law intern Kaya van der Horst build the case for repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in the United State...

Associate fellow and former academic director of the Asser Institute Janne E. Nijman (University of Amsterdam) and Helmut Philipp Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) were awarded the 2022 ESIL Collaborative Book Prize for their book Research Handbook on Internatio...

Subscribe now to the brand new The Hague Courts Dialogue Series podcast, brought to you by the Asser Institute, centre for international and European Law. In this series, researcher and podcast host Carl Lewis has short conversations with legal experts on cas...

While war is threatening the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, representatives of nearly two hundred states are meeting at the United Nations in New York to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We asked T...

In a really insightful episode of the interview series Battlegrounds (Hoover Institution), Asser Institute Fellow Nader Nadery looks back on the dire situation in Afghanistan, a year after Kabul fell to the Taliban. In the interview Nadery discusses human righ...

The screening of environmental hazards in Ukraine confirms that war is toxic to the environment. The Russian military, for instance,  attacked a tank of nitric acid that released a fume of toxic smoke. Russia’s invasion also threatens the nuclear and chemical ...

James Patrick Sexton, junior researcher at the Asser Institute, recently published a blog post, ‘The European Union’s Sanctioning of Russian Military Officers: An Urge for Caution’, where he examines the European Union’s (EU) two most recent rounds of sanction...