Asser Today

An Asser Institute’s training course co-organised with the Antonio Cassese Initiative, is an example of strengthening domestic legal capacities to improve the overall delivery of the international justice system, say speakers and participants of the new course...

The rise of technology has allowed for the more prolific permeation of different types of visual evidence in the courtroom. Whether and under what conditions visual evidence can be admitted in courts has been discussed for a long time, but it is now more than ...

A new biography on legal scholar and practitioner Tobias Asser, the name giver of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, traces the life of a public intellectual and the broader history of ideas. Asser Institute president Ernst Hirsch Ballin wrote the foreword to the two-vol...

Do the practices of city branding and human rights promotion and implementation go together? Are the branding possibilities merely a bonus when a local government self-identifies as a ‘human rights city’? Asser researcher at the Global City Project Lisa Rooden...

How do terrorists aim to attract attention and support for their claimed goals? How do states attempt to undermine the legitimacy claims of the terrorists and endeavour to gain or regain public trust and confidence? These are only some of the questions one of...