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[Interview] Daniela Heerdt: ‘The more attention we give to human rights abuses in mega sporting events, the more pressure can be exercised to create a positive change’
4 July 2022 By Diva EstantoDaniela Heerdt is a researcher in the field of sports and human rights. Early September, she will kick off the brand-new summer programme ‘The governance of sports and human rights’. Heerdt: ‘Sports law is increasingly connected to human rights. But this doesn...
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Farewell Janne E. Nijman: ‘I will dearly miss the Institute and all with whom I collaborated so well throughout the years’
28 June 2022This Thursday, Janne E. Nijman will step down as chairperson of the executive board and academic director of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut. Under her leadership, the Asser Institute was successfully repositioned as an internationally recognised research institute...
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Football feminism: Addressing discrimination through FIFA’s structures, rules, and governance practices
21 June 2022Private authorities play an important role in shaping the rights and obligations of people, sometimes even more so than national laws or international conventions. As a non-state actor, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is unmistakably e...
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Vesna Lazić elected to Scientific Council of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL)
9 June 2022Vesna Lazić, senior researcher in the strand ‘Public interest(s) inside/within international and European institutions and their practices’, has been elected to the prestigious Scientific Council of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL)...
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[New publication] City report on Buenos Aires as an international actor
3 June 2022From climate change, to human rights and from migration to security issues: cities are playing an increasing role in international law. In a brand-new city report for the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on the Role of Cities in International la...