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Connecting historical memory governance in Latin America and East Asia
12 March 2024The MEMOCRACY project is bringing scholars from Latin America and East Asia together to the Hague, to explore new solutions to legal governance of history through ‘memory laws’ – laws that regulate historical memory. These laws can be punitive, with a criminal...
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[Law clinic] Seeking transparency on arms exports
11 March 2024Recently, a new edition of the international law clinic on ‘Access to Justice for Gun Violence’ was launched by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic of the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with the Asser Institute and the European Center for Constituti...
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[Interview] Julia Mullert: "The foreign fighter phenomenon has some unique challenges for policymakers"
7 March 2024 By Sara UrsoJulia Mullert is a visiting research fellow at the Asser Institute and a Fulbright research scholar in the Schuman programme, which focuses on EU-wide research. Her work investigates how member states in the European Union have implemented the EU 2020 Countert...
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Ukrainian members of parliament and experts work on the development of a comprehensive legal framework to address atrocity crimes in Ukraine
6 March 2024The Asser Institute hosted a series of closed expert meetings to work on the development of a comprehensive legal framework to address atrocity crimes in Ukraine. In cooperation with the USAID Justice for All (J4A) programme, we welcomed key representatives of...
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[New Publication] Is wearing sunglasses an attack? Obligations under international humanitarian law for anti-AI countermeasures
4 March 2024In a forthcoming article for the International Review of the Red Cross, researcher Jonathan Kwik addresses the legal ambiguity of adversarials, an anti-artificial intelligence countermeasure that can induce hallucinations, bias, and performance drops in an opp...