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A new way forward: T.M.C. Asser Instituut and University of Amsterdam join forces in The Hague
5 October 2020The Hague, 8 October 2020 – Today, Geert ten Dam, president of the executive board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Ernst Hirsch Ballin, chairperson of the supervisory board of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, unveiled a new nameplate with two logos to celebrat...
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[Winter academy alert!] Save the date for our 2021 winter academies
2 October 2020In 2021, the Asser Institute’s winter academies on ‘Due diligence as a master key to responsible business conduct’ and ‘Artificial intelligence and international law’ will return in an online format. Click on the 'registration' and ‘pre-registration’ links bel...
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[Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture] Prof. Andrew Murray - Almost human: Law and human agency in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
30 September 2020How does datafication, the reduction of the complexity of the world to data values, threaten the Rule of Law? Why should we focus on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) rather than on ethics? Could human agency be superseded by algorithmic decision-...
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[Online symposium] Informalisation of the EU’s external action in the fields of migration and asylum
28 September 2020This week, the constitutional law blog, Verfassungsblog, is holding a symposium on the legal and policy implications of the increased informalisation of the EU’s external action in the field of migration and asylum. This trend, and topic of an upcoming interdi...
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[Recording] Online expert panel on missing persons and memory governance
25 September 2020On Thursday 24 September, from 16.00-17.30 CET, the Asser Institute and the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances co-hosted an online expert panel on ‘Missing persons and memory governance’. The online panel was part of the MELA-project, a...