| Sign up now for our 2021 winter academies: intensive short courses on Doing Business Right and Artificial Intelligence & International law | Early 2021, our renowned and thought-provoking winter academies on ‘Doing Business Right - Due diligence as a master key to responsible business conduct’ and ‘Artificial intelligence and international law’ will return. Aimed at professionals, academics and policymakers, our education is now available online from anywhere in the world. Click here to read more & register for the winter academy on ‘Doing Business Right.
Save your seat for our state-of-the art winter academy on ‘Artificial intelligence and international law’ by pre-registering here. You will receive notification as soon as registrations for this course will open. Click here for more info. | A new way forward: T.M.C. Asser Instituut and University of Amsterdam join forces in The Hague On October 8, Geert ten Dam, president of the executive board of the University of Amsterdam and Ernst Hirsch Ballin, chairperson of the supervisory board of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, unveiled a new nameplate with two logos to celebrate a new cooperation agreement between both organisations. Pursuant to the agreement, the Asser Institute's governance structure changed, with academic director Janne E. Nijman becoming the new chairperson of the executive board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut. Read more here. | Hilbert Bredemeijer (deputy mayor The Hague), Gert Grift (Asser managing director),
Geert ten Dam (UvA president of the executive board),
Ernst Hirsch Ballin (chairperson of the Asser supervisory board and Janne Nijman (chairperson of the Asser executive board). | The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR), one of the inter-university platforms coordinated by the Asser Institute, recently saw its mandate renewed for three more years. In addition, three new institutional members have recently joined the network. ‘The NNHRR has firmly consolidated its position in the Dutch academic landscape’, says Prof Yvonne Donders, chair of the network’s steering committee. Read more. | [New publication] Countering cyber terrorism in a time of 'war on words’: the case of France A lack of legal clarity, an extensive administrative discretion, and the related limited judicial review are some of the problems with France’s counter-terrorism policy to regulate online content, writes Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi in a contribution to a new publication of the Hague Program for Cyber Norms (HPCN). Read more. | In the years following the events of 9/11, the US ‘War on Terror’ gradually came to define the first decade of the 21st century. Almost 20 years on since its start, its legacy continues to be felt. This chapter by Asser researcher Rumyana van Arkexamines the effects and legacies of the ‘War on Terror.’ Read more here. | [SCL Lecture] Sexual terrorism On 10 December, the Asser Institute, in cooperation with Impact: Center against Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict, will organise a supranational criminal law (SCL) lecture on ‘sexual terrorism’. The lecture will explore the concept of ‘sexual terrorism’ – the use of human trafficking and conflict-related sexual violence as a tactic of terrorism – as well as the advantages and disadvantages of labelling and prosecuting human trafficking and conflict-related sexual violence as terrorism. Read more and sign up here. | Selected publications Articles
Boutin, B.
'Beyond AI Ethics: International Law and Human Rights for AI Accountability’, I4ADA, Accountability Paper Vision 2020: Taking Stock & Looking Forward (2020): 46-47. Kassoti, E. & Odermatt, J.
‘The Principle of Autonomy and International Investment Arbitration: Reflections on Opinion 1/17’, (73) Questions of International Law (2020): 5-20. Book chapters
Idriz, N. & Kassoti, E.
‘The External Dimension of EU Migration and Asylum Policy: More Informalisation, Less Protection, Less Rule of Law?’, Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional, 28 September 2020. Idriz, N.
‘A “Complete” System of Legal Remedies?: The EU-Turkey Deal as a Litmus Test’, Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional, 30 September 2020. Okoli, C.
‘Waiving the Right to a Foreign Arbitration Clause by Submitting to the Jurisdiction of a Nigerian Court’, Conflict of Laws.net, Views and News in Private International Law, 24 October 2020. | Asser research papers and policy briefs can be downloaded on SSRN. | | Upcoming events & training programmes | 03 November 2020
[Online HILAC lecture] International humanitarian law and non-state actors 04 November 2020
[Online lecture] Fighting global deforestation through due diligence: towards an EU regulation on forest and ecosystem risk commodities? 26 November 2020
[Online] Annual Lecture 02 December 2020
[SCL Lecture] The STL Judgement in the Ayyash et al. case: Justice for Lebanon? 10 December 2020
[SCL Lecture] Sexual terrorism | For all events click here
For information on our coronavirus policy please click here. | The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is an official partner of the Just Peace The Hague. Aimed at giving peace & justice an important place in the hearts and actions of Hague-based residents, entrepreneurs and organisations. Asser researchers Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi and Dimitri van der Meerssche gave a lecture on big data & security and were interviewed for the event. | To find more videos, please subscribe to our YouTube page. Here you will find the latest webinars, interviews with Asser researchers, videos on our training programmes and much more. | | Asser Press featured publication | Newsletter of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut Editors:
Nora Colley and Alexander Rijpma The T.M.C. Asser Instituut aims to further the development of international and European law in such a way that it serves a cultivation of trust and respect in the global, regional, national and local societies in which the law operates. | |
