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[International human rights law] Urgent legal reforms needed as victims of gun violence face limited access to courts in the United States
9 September 2022In a new blog post on Just Security, Asser Institute international law researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz and international law intern Kaya van der Horst build the case for repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in the United State...
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Research Handbook on International Law and Cities awarded 2022 ESIL Collaborative Book Prize
7 September 2022Associate fellow and former academic director of the Asser Institute Janne E. Nijman (University of Amsterdam) and Helmut Philipp Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) were awarded the 2022 ESIL Collaborative Book Prize for their book Research Handbook on Internatio...
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[Nuclear disarmament] Thea Coventry: ‘Codifying legal norms might not prevent nuclear war, but it does help to create a world where nuclear weapons are unthinkable’
25 August 2022 By Jasper Schellekens and Pascal MesserWhile war is threatening the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, representatives of nearly two hundred states are meeting at the United Nations in New York to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We asked T...
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Watch now: 'The fight for human rights: Lessons from Afghanistan' with Asser Institute fellow Nader Nadery
19 August 2022In a really insightful episode of the interview series Battlegrounds (Hoover Institution), Asser Institute Fellow Nader Nadery looks back on the dire situation in Afghanistan, a year after Kabul fell to the Taliban. In the interview Nadery discusses human righ...
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[Interview] Asser researcher Stavros Evdokimos Pantazopoulos: 'Ecocide carries a symbolic value'
17 August 2022 By Diva EstantoThe screening of environmental hazards in Ukraine confirms that war is toxic to the environment. The Russian military, for instance, attacked a tank of nitric acid that released a fume of toxic smoke. Russia’s invasion also threatens the nuclear and chemical ...