Asser Today

Last week, Asser Institute researchers Antoine Duval and Catherine Dunmore released a new policy brief entitled ‘The Case for a Court of Arbitration for Business and Human Rights’. In this short Q&A, Antoine Duval provides some background to the context an...

On the 5th of June, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed a long-awaited decision on the Coman case, unequivocally interpreting the word “spouse” in EU Citizenship Directive as covering also married same-sex partners. In practice, this means that s...

The laureates of the four freedoms awards this year (a diplomat, a journalist, a Bishop, a conservationist, and an ardent human rights activist) are people fighting their battles on different fronts, but they all have one aim in common: to make the world a bet...

In May 2018, Asser researcher Dr Bérénice Boutin was awarded research funding by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung to conduct an eighteen-month research project on the ‘Conceptual and Policy Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military Technologies for State Respo...

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building on 24 April 2013 in Bangladesh, left at least 1,134 people dead and over 2,500 others wounded, while survivors and the families of the dead continue to suffer trauma in the aftermath of the disaster. On 12 April, the ev...