When we speak of transnational law, we usually think of treaties, courts, judicial decisions, and states. But listing these “official practices” often means that we actually stay on the surface of the things we study. How does transnational law come about, and...

The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) and Tilburg Law School are calling for Dutch and Flemish university faculties to submit nominations for the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award. The award, with € 2,500 in total prize money, is meant f...

Asser Institute and Graduate Institute researcher Dr Marta Bo and Taylor Woodcock argue, in a blog post written for The Global, that there is a lack of discussion on autonomous weapons and criminal responsibility for war crimes at the UN level. The blog post h...

Four hundred years ago, like today, globalisation and urbanisation impacted the world’s cities. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the afflux of trade and migrants prompted rapid economic and demographic growth, resulting in dynamic multicultural urban life and...

Democracy, rule of law, and multilateralism are values the European Union seeks to embody and promote. But how well does it do so in a global arena? Asser’s new project ‘Global Europe’, launched today, focuses on the EU’s trustworthiness as an international le...

“Since terrorism rarely achieves strategic success, we should not over-react to it. In order to undermine and limit this bloodstained form of politics, we should instead emphasise and use the things that it often does achieve, such as publicity, or revenge aga...

On Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May, the Asser institute will co-organise the 7th edition of the PAX moot court competition. The moot court is part of the EU-funded JUDGTRUST research project, led by Asser researcher Vesna Lazic, which focuses on the Brussels Ibi...

The story of a clash between newcomers and the old residents of cities is as old as the history books. But need it be so? Thursday May 16, Asser’s academic director Prof. Dr Janne E. Nijman opened the seminar A Sense of Belonging in the City: The role of NGOs ...

Advocating for public interests with international law can take many forms, say speakers of this year’s summer programme on international lawyering in a public interest. What does it mean to be an international public interest lawyer in today’s global world? ...