Registration is open for our unique 2020 winter academies. Sign up now to advance your career! [Winter academy] Artificial intelligence & international law (20 - 24 January 2020) In the second edition of the second edition of our highly successful winter...

Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi argues that the deprivation of citizenship of former IS fighters is not an effective sanction. ‘It actually strengthens jihadist ideology, which is based on the rejection of citizenship.’ By Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Euro...

Renowned legal scholar Prof. Anne Orford will deliver the Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday, 28 November 2019 at a symbolic place for international law - the Peace Palace in The Hague. Orford's lecture is entitled ‘International Law and the Social ...

According to Dutch newspaper NRC, the Dutch public prosecution service and Minister Grapperhaus (Justice and Security) are taking opposing sides in the question of IS fighters. The public prosecution service wants to bring the Dutch IS fighters to justice in t...

The preliminary programme for our highly successful winter academy on artificial intelligence and international law is out. Register now to secure your spot.  The winter academy offers you foundational knowledge on key issues at the interface of international...

Senior Asser researcher Dr Antoine Duval  spoke to The Economist for a short documentary on the widespread occurrence of doping in sports and the difficulties to tackle that phenomenon.       Duval provides a critical analysis of the legitimacy and effecti...

The role of international humanitarian law in the context of prosecuting foreign fighters is complex and underutilised, argue Asser senior researcher and research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) Dr Christophe Pauluss...

The International Law Association (ILA) study group on "the Role of Cities in International Law", the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Freie Universität Berlin invite researchers to submit abstracts for reports on city practices in relation to international law....

For the first time, the Asser Institute and the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) are organising the CLEER winter academy from 17 to 21 February 2020. The winter academy is a one-week training course on EU external policies and instruments &a...