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In February 2019, the Asser Institute is offering a new Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law. Over the course of one week, this innovative training programme will provide insights into the current and future issues raised by artifici...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled in favour of provisional measures for Iran in Iran’s case against the US concerning the unilateral re-imposition of sanctions. The judges unanimously found that the re-imposition of sanctions by the US followi...

As U.S. President Trump shows us every day, Twitter is a powerful megaphone to reach and move an audience. In a new article for the Tilburg Law Review, Dr Antoine Duval, senior researcher at T.M.C. Asser Instituut, argues that legal scholars should embrace soc...

In 2009 Claudia Pechstein, a German speed skater, was accused of blood doping and banned from competition for two years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the ban. Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced in its ruling in Mutu ...

Asser senior researcher and international law expert Dr Geoff Gordon is quoted in today’s edition of the Spanish newspaper El Pais. He was interviewed for his analysis of the Chagos Archipelago case that is currently being deliberated upon by the International...