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[New publication] Are courts effectively protecting individual rights? Rule of law backsliding on national security matters
22 January 2025In their new article, researchers Rumyana van Ark and Tarik Gherbaoui examine the intersection between national security measures, judicial deference, and the rule of law. They highlight the dangers of normalising expansive national security provisions which c...
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[Interview] Shelter City Research Fellow Lou: Documenting children's rights in the Philippines
21 January 2025 By Audrey NguyenLou*, a Filipina human rights defender with a local human rights network, is dedicated to documenting gross human rights violations against children and young people in her country. As a Shelter City Research Fellow at the Asser Institute, she is investigating...
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[New publication] The global debate on hate speech and its criminalisation
20 January 2025A new publication entitled ‘Criminalising Hate Speech: A Comparative Study’ (Asser Press), edited by Eric Heinze, focuses on the complex and urgent issue of hate speech. This is the world’s first publication to offer detailed, country-by-country studies from i...
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[Sports law] EU advocate general cites Asser Institute researcher in opinion challenging the Court of Arbitration for sport
17 January 2025A potential landmark ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is challenging the authority of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the long-standing arbiter of key disputes in transnational sports governance. CJEU’s Advocate General Tam...
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[New publication] A global perspective on animal law and welfare
15 January 2025A new book, entitled “Animal Law: Comparative and Global Perspectives” (T.M.C. Asser Press), edited by Federico Dalpane and Maria Baideldinova, shows that legal frameworks worldwide are evolving to address the welfare, protection and legal status of animals. T...