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The study of a 17th-century rabbinic commentary on the Hebrew Bible written by Ishac Athias, published in Amsterdam sheds light on the viewpoint of freedom within the Sephardic community. The Romans considered libertas the natural state or condition of men. I...

The International Law Association (ILA) study group on "the Role of Cities in International Law", the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Freie Universität Berlin invite researchers to submit abstracts for reports on city practices in relation to international law....

The inaugural UN Habitat Assembly was held in Nairobi from 27 to 31 May 2019. Its aim was to reinvigorate the international focus on cities and on the inclusive and sustainable urban development around the world.  In other words, to accelerate the move from me...

After the famous Iamsterdam sign in front of Rijksmuseum was removed, hosts stood in a now empty space to inform confused and disappointed tourists of this fact. The removal of the iconic sign, criticized for becoming a selfie-spot, was a highly symbolic step ...

Four hundred years ago, like today, globalisation and urbanisation impacted the world’s cities. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the afflux of trade and migrants prompted rapid economic and demographic growth, resulting in dynamic multicultural urban life and...