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The impact of US - Russian relations on arms control: A discussion with Dr Oliver Meier
20 August 2019Just over two weeks ago, the U.S. decided to pull out of the The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the arms control treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987, due to complaints that Russia was violating the terms of the...
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Register for the third ISLJ International Sports Law Conference
20 August 2019The Asser Institute in The Hague will be hosting the third annual ISLJ international sports law conference on the 24th and 25th of October, bringing together sports law scholars and practitioners for two days of in-depth discussions. This year’s edition will...
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Prosecuting international and transnational crimes requires domestic capacity: Asser trains magistrates from francophone African countries
13 August 2019An Asser Institute’s training course co-organised with the Antonio Cassese Initiative, is an example of strengthening domestic legal capacities to improve the overall delivery of the international justice system, say speakers and participants of the new course...
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The changing nature of courtroom evidence
7 August 2019 By Anna-Maria AndreevaThe rise of technology has allowed for the more prolific permeation of different types of visual evidence in the courtroom. Whether and under what conditions visual evidence can be admitted in courts has been discussed for a long time, but it is now more than ...
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In quest of liberty, justice, and peace: a new biography on Asser’s private and public life
31 July 2019A new biography on legal scholar and practitioner Tobias Asser, the name giver of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, traces the life of a public intellectual and the broader history of ideas. Asser Institute president Ernst Hirsch Ballin wrote the foreword to the two-vol...