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Mexico’s cases against U.S. gun industry move forward
27 March 2024This week, an Arizona federal court allowed Mexico's lawsuit against U.S. gun dealers to move forward. The court found that Mexico's complaint plausibly alleges that defendants "knew or should have known" their firearms would be used by violent cartels. Mexic...
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[New course] Using satellite imagery as evidence in international judicial proceedings
18 March 2024An innovative training course on using satellite imagery as evidence in international judicial proceedings has been launched by UNITAR-UNOSAT, the Asser Institute, the Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) and IUSTICOM. Legal professionals working with intern...
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Connecting historical memory governance in Latin America and East Asia
12 March 2024The MEMOCRACY project is bringing scholars from Latin America and East Asia together to the Hague, to explore new solutions to legal governance of history through ‘memory laws’ – laws that regulate historical memory. These laws can be punitive, with a criminal...
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[Law clinic] Seeking transparency on arms exports
11 March 2024Recently, a new edition of the international law clinic on ‘Access to Justice for Gun Violence’ was launched by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic of the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with the Asser Institute and the European Center for Constituti...
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[Interview] Julia Mullert: "The foreign fighter phenomenon has some unique challenges for policymakers"
7 March 2024 By Sara UrsoJulia Mullert is a visiting research fellow at the Asser Institute and a Fulbright research scholar in the Schuman programme, which focuses on EU-wide research. Her work investigates how member states in the European Union have implemented the EU 2020 Countert...