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Janne Nijman co-organised a conference on ethical world order in Beijing. Asser’s academic director Janne Nijman co-organised the conference “A Human Community with a Shared Future: Roots of a New Global Legal Order in European and Chinese Civilization” toget...

When we speak of transnational law, we usually think of treaties, courts, judicial decisions, and states. But listing these “official practices” often means that we actually stay on the surface of the things we study. How does transnational law come about, and...

The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) and Tilburg Law School are calling for Dutch and Flemish university faculties to submit nominations for the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award. The award, with € 2,500 in total prize money, is meant f...

Asser Institute and Graduate Institute researcher Dr Marta Bo and Taylor Woodcock argue, in a blog post written for The Global, that there is a lack of discussion on autonomous weapons and criminal responsibility for war crimes at the UN level. The blog post h...

Democracy, rule of law, and multilateralism are values the European Union seeks to embody and promote. But how well does it do so in a global arena? Asser’s new project ‘Global Europe’, launched today, focuses on the EU’s trustworthiness as an international le...