Asser Today

The preliminary programme for our Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law is out. This interactive training from 11-15 February 2019 features over twenty sessions by high-level speakers and includes panels, workshops, and a mini-hackath...

In this blog, Asser researcher Dr Narin Idriz explains the Global Compact for Migration, sometimes wrongly called the Marrakech Treaty 2018. The compact is a non-binding UN agreement on a common approach to international migration to be adopted on 10-11 Decemb...

Counter-terrorism laws and policies need to be much better motivated and justified through assessments, evaluations and reviews, according to a new policy brief by Asser Institute researcher Dr Berenice Boutin. Governments around the world are increasingly i...

Asser expert Dr Narin Idriz gave a presentation on EU and third countries’ cooperation on migration at the Renforce conference at the University of Utrecht last week. She discussed the pros and cons of the EU’s current strategies to manage migration flows, a t...

The draft withdrawal agreement for Brexit sets out how the United Kingdom can depart from the European Union in a smooth and orderly fashion. Dr Joris Larik, speaker at the upcoming CLEER conference on EU external relations and CLEER Advisory Board member, say...