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[2020 ASIL] Hague institutions hosted the closing plenary on cities and international law

On Friday June 26, T.M.C. Asser Instituut's academic director Prof. Janne Nijman convened the online closing plenary of the 2020 virtual annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). The unique event focused on cities and international law and was kindly supported by the Municipality of The Hague. Read more here.


[Analysis] Dutch Supreme Court rules on the group repatriation of the families of IS fighters: 'We expect that more individual court cases will now be started'

Last week, the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands does not have to repatriate a group of 23 Dutch women and their 56 children currently detained in Northern Syria. Asser counterterrorism researchers Dr Christophe Paulussen and Dr Rumyana van Ark shared their analysis. Read it here.


MATRA project awarded: providing support to Ukraine to combat international crimes

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded the Asser Institute and Global Rights Compliance (GRC) a contract under the MATRA (Maatschappelijke Transformatie: social transformation) Programme to do research on the reform in Ukraine’s criminal justice sector from 2020-2024. Read more here.


Asser researcher receives Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Early Career Partnership Award

Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has received an Early Career Partnership Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She is awarded €10,000 to organise a multidisciplinary meeting on the law and ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the public sector. Read more here.



Selected publications

Aust, H. & Nijman, J.E.
'Planetary Boundaries intra muros: Cities and the Anthropocene', Asser SSRN Research Paper 2020-04, Duncan French and Louis J. Kotzé (eds.), Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries, Edward Elgar (Forthcoming).

Duval, A. & Kassoti, E.
‘Setting the Scene: The Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories‘, in
Duval, A. & Kassoti, E. (Eds.), The Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories: International, EU Law and Business and Human Rights Perspectives, Routledge, (2020), pp. 1-24 (Forthcoming)..

Geiss, R. & Paulussen, C.
‘Specifically Protected Persons and Objects’, in: Saul, B. & Akande, A. (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 175-203.

Stolk, S. & Vos, R.(Eds), ‘Brutal International Law’, 28(1) New Perspectives (2020): pp. 12-70.

Asser research papers and policy briefs can be downloaded on SSRN.


Upcoming events & training programmes

24-28 August 2020
[Online training programme] 10th Advanced summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism and the rule of law

15 September 2020
[Online round table] Trading emerging technologies: Security and human rights perspectives

28 September - 02 October 2020
[Training programme] Disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

09 October 2020
[Conference] Migration deals and their damaging effects

For all events click here
For information on our coronavirus policy please click here.


Asser in the media

Identiteit, column by Janne Nijman for Christen Democratische Verkenningen (CDV) (24 June 2020)

Prosecute ISIS members for war crimes not just terrorism charges, say European prosecutors, interview with Christophe Paulussen for Syria Direct

Repatriation of Dutch children in Syria now unlikely – but it shouldn’t be a political choice, article by Dr Rumyana van Ark, Dr Faith Gordon, & Devyani Prabhat for The Conversation

Repatriating the forgotten children of ISIS fighters: A matter of urgency, publication by Dr Rumyana van Ark, Dr Faith Gordon, & Devyani Prabhat for Globalcit

[Call for papers] Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is looking for expert panel manuals

T.M.C. Asser Press and the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (YIHL) are inviting authors to submit contributions to Vol. 23 (2020) of YIHL on expert panel manuals. The deadline of submission is 1 October 2020. To read more on the details of this call for paper click here.

Asser Press featured publication

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The Netherlands Journal of Private International Law - Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (NIPR) published by T.M.C. Asser Press, is now available on the search engine and research platform Legal Intelligence (Wolters Kluwer). T.M.C. Asser Press Publisher Frank Bakker: “It is a positive development that NIPR Online, a source of knowledge on Dutch, European and global international private law, will now also be accessible via Legal Intelligence to larger Dutch law firms, the public sector and the judiciary.” NIPR offers a forum for academic debate and informative contributions for practitioners on fundamental and topical issues in the area of private international law. Subscriptions include access to the online database (NIPR Online) with material going back to 1984.

Newsletter of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut

Editors:
Julia Kampf and Faten Bushehri

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.

 
 
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