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Deadline extended for applications research positions in ethics and law of military AI
27 March 2020Due to the difficult conditions resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, T.M.C. Asser Instituut is extending the deadline for applications for two research positions for its NWO-MVI funded interdisciplinary research project DILEMA on Designing International La...
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Covid-19 update on T.M.C. Asser's 2020 summer programmes
26 March 2020Dear members of the Asser community, Following the most recent guidelines from the Dutch national Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we postponed all our public events up to and including June 1st. The ...
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Blog post: ‘The counter-productiveness of deprivation of nationality as a national security measure’
23 March 2020Governments struggling with the potential threat of returning former ISIS fighters and their families are increasingly turning to citizenship stripping as a counterterrorism measure. In this blog post, Dr Christophe Paulussen, senior researcher at the T.M.C. A...
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New project: ‘Strengthening the role of legal actors in the defence of the right to freedom of expression’
20 March 2020The universal human right to freedom of expression and the relevance of the rule of law are formal UN Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, in the past 10 years there has been a steep growth in attacks on freedom of expression in general, and on journalists in p...
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[Asser in the news] Mexico’s amnesty proposal: an instrument of transitional justice?
9 March 2020Asser Researcher Dr León Castellanos-Jankiewicz has published an analysis in Just Security about the shortcomings of Mexico’s amnesty law. As violence in Mexico reaches record highs, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed an amnesty law aimed at b...