On Thursday 24 September, from 16.00-17.30 CET, the Asser Institute and the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will co-host an online expert panel on ‘Missing persons and memory governance’. The online panel is part of the MELA-project,...

From 28 September – 2 October, T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague will host the eleventh training programme on disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, co-organised with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)....

This month, the DILEMA research project on Designing international law and ethics into military artificial intelligence formally started. This project, funded by NWO–MVI Programme on Responsible Innovation, explores interdisciplinary perspectives on military...

The Board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut has received the sad news that our former colleague Antoinette Wessels-Voorbij (60) has passed away on September 7th. For twenty years, Antoinette worked for T.M.C. Asser Press and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut as a market...

Digital technology has been at the forefront of the US-China trade war. The tensions have in part led the US government to initiate the export control of emerging technologies, including, not only advanced information technology, but also robotics, brain-compu...

Asser senior researcher Antoine Duval recently authored several publications in the field of transnational sports law, also known as lex sportiva. The publications are now available on Asser’s SSRN page. The main topics are:   'Transnational Sports Law: the ...

"Another academic year lies ahead of us. An extraordinary year, not just because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on our personal and working lives, but also because of the many other global challenges we are facing. As today’s crises cut acro...

In a podcast interview with constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog, Asser senior researcher Dr Uladzislau Belavusau reflects on the mass protests in Belarus. What could be a possible future if Belarus manages to rid itself of the ‘last dictator of Europe’? T...

Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin was part of the Drafting Committee of the Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law, which were recently published in the Foreword section of the European Journal of International Law (Volume 31...