'Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. The technology is advancing fast and policy makers who are concerned with responsible innovation need to catch up and take ownership of the topic’, says Asser Institute researcher Dr Berenice Boutin ahead of our 2020 winter academy on artificial intelligence and international law. Read more here. | Currently, private international law - a specialised branch of law which resolves cases between private persons or companies which have an element of conflicting foreign law - has no real place in Africa yet. But with the increasing international trade with Africa, there is a growing need for more scholarly attention and efforts to generate a private international law system that responds to the socio-economic, cultural, and political interests of countries of the continent, writes Asser researcher Dr Chukwuma Okoli. Continue reading here. | Asser researcher Dr Narin Idriz has been appointed as a member of the permanent commission on Human Rights of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Read more here. | To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, the Asser Institute in collaboration with Humanity House and the Visual Human Rights project, invited forty high school students from The Hague to participate in the workshop “Human rights visualised.” The workshop included a range of activities under the guidance of Asser researcher Dr Sofia Stolkand photographer Hoessein Alkisaei (Visual Human Rights). Click here to see pictures from the event. | Registration is open for our unique 2020 winter academies: the winter academy on artificial intelligence & international law (20 - 24 January 2020), the winter academy on due diligence as master key to responsible business conduct (27 - 31 January 2020) and the CLEER winter academy on EU external policies and instruments & asylum and migration (17 - 21 February 2020). Read more about each one of them and sign up now to advance your career! | | Upcoming events & training programmes | 17 January 2020
Due diligence and the extraterritorial application of human rights 20 - 24 January 2020
Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence & International law 21 January 2020
Roundtable on Artificial intelligence and Diversity 27 - 31 January 2020
Doing Business Right Winter Academy: Due diligence as master key to responsible business conduct 24 - 26 March 2020
Global Justice Cinema: Workshop on Documentary Film and World Politics | For all events click here | | Open calls and scholarships | On December 11, Nobel peace prize laureate and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi defend ed Myanmar in an extraordinary case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Suu Kyi led the legal defence team of her country against charges of genocide against the Buddhist state's minority Rohingya Muslims. Read the interview with Asser researcher Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche on the case here. | Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi spoke live on France24’s ‘The Debate’ on France's role in Sahel, the London bridge attack and the fight against terrorism. To read more and watch the full debate, click here. | Asser in videos To make life easier, please have a look at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut video page. Here you can find recent interviews with Asser researchers, videos on our training programmes and much more. If you want to see more videos please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. | Selected publications ▪ Ark, R. van (née Grozdanova). ‘The Normalisation of Secrecy in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: Individuals, the Courts and the Counter-Terrorism Framework’, in: Paulussen, C. & Scheinin, M. (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 333-365.
▪ Okoli, C. & Roberts, E. ‘The operation of Article 4 of Rome II Regulation in English and Irish courts’, 15(3) Journal of Private International Law (2019): 605-625
▪ Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen C. ‘Editorial’, in: Gill, T.D., Geiβ, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen, C. (eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): VII-IX.
▪ Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘Constitutional Identity in the Netherlands: Sailing with Others’, in: Calliess, C. & Schyff, G. van de, Constitutional Identity in a Europe of Multilevel Constitutionalism, Cambridge University Press (2019): 222-242.
▪ Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘De rechtsstaat: wat een democratie in leven houdt’, in: Heuvel, F. van den & Overeen, P., Een vitale rechtsstaat - Grondslag, kwetsbaarheid, weerbaarheid, Valkhof Pers (2019): 113-125.
▪ Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘Foreword’, in: Eyffinger, A., T.M.C. Asser (1838-1913) ‘In Quest of Liberty, Justice, and Peace’, Brill (2019): xxv-xxix (Vol. 1).
▪ Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘Restoring Trust in the Rule of Law’, in: Paulussen, C. & Scheinin, M. (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 27-32.
▪ Paulussen C. et al. ‘Introduction’, in: Paulussen, C. & Scheinin, M. (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 3-11.
▪ Paulussen C. et al. ‘Guidelines to facilitate the use and admissibility as evidence in national criminal courts of information Collected, handled, preserved and shared by the military to prosecute terrorist offences (“Military Evidence”)’, Report of the United Nation Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, ICCT/Asser (2019).
▪ Roithmaier, K., Tobjasz, M. & Bove, P. ‘Year in Review 2018’ in: Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen, C. (eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 165
| ▪ | Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen C. ‘Editorial’, in: Gill, T.D., Geiβ, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen, C. (eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): VII-IX. | | ▪ | Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘De rechtsstaat: wat een democratie in leven houdt’, in: Heuvel, F. van den & Overeen, P., Een vitale rechtsstaat - Grondslag, kwetsbaarheid, weerbaarheid, Valkhof Pers (2019): 113-125. | | ▪ | Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘Foreword’, in: Eyffinger, A., T.M.C. Asser (1838-1913) ‘In Quest of Liberty, Justice, and Peace’, Brill (2019): xxv-xxix (Vol. 1). | | ▪ | Hirsch Ballin, E.M.H. ‘Restoring Trust in the Rule of Law’, in: Paulussen, C. & Scheinin, M. (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 27-32. | | ▪ | Paulussen C. et al. ‘Introduction’, in: Paulussen, C. & Scheinin, M. (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 3-11. | | ▪ | Roithmaier, K., Tobjasz, M. & Bove, P. ‘Year in Review 2018’ in: Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen, C. (eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2019): 165 | | Asser research papers and policy briefs can be downloaded on SSRN. | | Asser Press featured publication | Newsletter of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut Editors:
Faten Bushehri / Donika Elshani 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. | |
