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International law for public interest
10 May 2019Advocating for public interests with international law can take many forms, say speakers of this year’s summer programme on international lawyering in a public interest. What does it mean to be an international public interest lawyer in today’s global world? ...
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Asser president Ernst Hirsch Ballin: “Do we want a democracy that divides or one that makes connections?”
6 May 2019During his May 5 Liberation Day speech in the Johannes de Doperkerk in Wageningen, Asser Institute president Ernst Hirsch Ballin called for reflection upon the big questions on democracy that we are facing today. “A connecting democracy has more future than an...
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In the spotlight: International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform
3 May 2019The International Humanitarian and Criminal Law (IHCL) Platform is one of the many inter-university networks coordinated by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut.The objective of the IHCL Platform is to establish an academic network fostering research in the area of inte...
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Founder and former director of the Asser Institute has passed away
30 April 2019We have received the sad news that the founder and former director of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Dr C.C.A. (Bert) Voskuil, passed away on 29 April 2019. Bert Voskuil was the first director of the institute since its establishment in 1965 and continued to fill...
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Germany and its returning foreign terrorist fighters
23 April 2019In his new blog post, Asser Institute researcher Kilian Roithmaier examines a German law that would revoke the citizenship of German foreign terrorist fighters. In response to the departure of more than 1050 Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) from Germany to S...