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Call for papers: Urban politics of human rights
15 December 2019T.M.C. Asser Instituut project ‘The Global City’ and the University College Roosevelt project ‘Cities of Refuge’ invite researchers, from different disciplines, to submit abstracts for an edited volume on the urban politics of human rights. In recent years, a...
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Student scholarships available for the Doing Business Right winter academy
11 December 2019Five partial scholarships are available exclusively to outstanding master students and PhD candidates to attend the upcoming Doing Business Right winter academy. The 2020 edition of the winter academy, taking place at the Asser Institute from 27-31 January 202...
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Blog: ‘We need a private international law system that responds to the interests of Africa’
11 December 2019Currently, private international law - a specialised branch of law which resolves cases between private persons or companies which have an element of conflicting foreign law - has no real place in Africa yet. But with the increasing international trade with Af...
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New Year’s resolutions? Our winter academies will help you stay ahead in 2020
11 December 2019Sign up now to advance your career! Registration is open for our unique 2020 winter academies. [Winter academy] Artificial intelligence & international law (20 - 24 January 2020) In the second edition of our highly successful, unique and innovative winte...
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[Interview] Aung San Suu Kyi to defend Myanmar before the ICJ in Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case
10 December 2019On December 11 Nobel peace prize laureate and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended Myanmar in an extraordinary case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Suu Kyi led the legal defence team of her country against charges of genocide against ...