Asser Today

On May 10, in a packed Peace Palace in The Hague, Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture speaker and political scientist Prof. Brigid Laffan addressed the European dependencies and vulnerabilities in relation to the war in Ukraine, and in the context of a hardening of ge...

As part of the Asser Institute research paper series, Asser researchers Berenice Boutin, Taylor Woodcock and Tomasz Zurek from the research strand ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ and part of the Designing Inte...

In a new blog post for international law blog OpinioJuris, Asser Institute intern Florent Beurret discusses Russia’s latest (ab)use of the veto in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, while arguing that existing veto limits in the face of jus cogens violations need...

James Patrick Sexton, junior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, recently published a book review of Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann’s edited volume, Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law (Elgar 2021), in the Journal of Internatio...

Asser Institute researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is actively following the Mexico v. Smith & Wesson litigation, initiated by Mexico against six U.S. gun manufacturers, a potentially game-changing case for gun control. The ins and outs of the case wil...