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Global Justice Cinema: where film meets international justice
19 December 2019Registration is open for our workshop on Documentary Film and World Politics, an annual event co-organised by T.M.C. Asser Instituut, VU Amsterdam & Movies that Matter Festival. The workshop will take place between 24-26 March 2020 at the T.M.C. Asser Inst...
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[Interview] Asser researcher Berenice Boutin: “Now is the moment to govern and regulate Artificial Intelligence”
19 December 2019‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. The technology is advancing fast and policy makers who are concerned with responsible innovation need to catch up and take ownership of the topic’, says Asser Institute researcher Dr Berenice Boutin. She is project ...
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Call for papers: Urban politics of human rights
15 December 2019T.M.C. Asser Instituut project ‘The Global City’ and the University College Roosevelt project ‘Cities of Refuge’ invite researchers, from different disciplines, to submit abstracts for an edited volume on the urban politics of human rights. In recent years, a...
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Student scholarships available for the Doing Business Right winter academy
11 December 2019Five partial scholarships are available exclusively to outstanding master students and PhD candidates to attend the upcoming Doing Business Right winter academy. The 2020 edition of the winter academy, taking place at the Asser Institute from 27-31 January 202...
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Blog: ‘We need a private international law system that responds to the interests of Africa’
11 December 2019Currently, private international law - a specialised branch of law which resolves cases between private persons or companies which have an element of conflicting foreign law - has no real place in Africa yet. But with the increasing international trade with Af...