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‘Cities at the Frontiers of International Law and Global Governance’ at the 2018 Biennial Conference of the International Law Association
9 April 2018Join us August 21, 2018, in Sydney for an open panel on ‘Cities at the Frontiers of International Law and Governance’ at the 2018 Biennial Conference of the International Law Association - ‘Developing International Law in Challenge Times’. It is a side-event t...
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Left Behind: The Portuguese Jews that Didn’t Escape the Inquisition
3 April 2018 By Yehonatan Elazar-DeMotaIn the month of January 2018, I was invited by the board of Centro de Estudos Judaicos do Alto Tâmega (CEJAT) to present at the second symposium on Judaism. They requested that I speak about the Jewish customs of the Portuguese Jews throughout the diaspora. In...
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How does International Law Play into the World Urban Forum and the Demand for Inclusiveness in International Processes?
1 March 2018 By Miha MarcenkoThis February, a diverse group of actors gathered in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia for the 9th World Urban Forum. There were representatives of international organisations, national governments, municipal governments, NGOs, grass-root organisations, academics and priv...
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Launching the Website of ‘The Global City: Challenges, Trust and the Role of Law’ Project
1 March 2018 By Miha Marcenko, Lisa Roodenburg, Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota and Julia van der KriekeThe Asser Institute is launching the website for its research project on ‘The Global City: Challenges, Trust and the Role of Law’. The project brings together four PhD researchers, who examine how important past and present legal developments took place in the...
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On Citizenship in Wintery Warsaw
7 December 2017 By Julia van der KriekeOn 15 November, 2017, I spoke at the Seventh International Conference for Jewish Studies Researchers at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw. I shared the aims and larger questions of my research, touched upon citizenship for Jewish immigrants in the...
