Inaugural Lecture Professor Janne Nijman: ‘Seeking change by doing history’

“Give Banks and Companies Clear Guidelines on their Human Rights Responsibilities”

Overview of the First ISLJ Annual International Sports Law Conference

Senior Researcher in the areas of Counter Terrorism and International Criminal Law within our research strand on ‘Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European law’ within our Research Agenda ‘International & European Law as a Source of Trust in a Hyper-connected World’.

Winter Academy - Doing Business Right: Corporate Social Responsibility in Transnational Law and Practice

The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is offering a new Winter Academy in the framework of its recently launched research project on Doing Business Right. The Winter Academy investigates the multiple ways through which the law encourages, steers and, at times, even mandates corporate social responsibility in our interconnected environment.

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The EU: A case of over-constitutionalization?

As Europe is going from one crisis to another, it seems that the successive waves of Treaty reforms did not meet the economic and political challenges of our times. Brexit can be seen as exemplifying the growing discontent with the EU. Dieter Grimm identifies the problem as one of over-constitutionalisation and argues that the EU risks failure, if it continues functioning under its current integration dynamics. To tackle this risk, he advances a number of concrete proposals for reforming the EU’s institutional structure, as well as its decision-making processes.

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Third Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture by Professor Saskia Sassen

On 30 November 2017, professor Sassen addressed a full Academy Hall of the Peace Palace in the Hague at the prestigious Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture of the Asser Institute. She turned her gaze towards the rise of extractive logics driving the current global economy. The extraction of resources and value from economies cause expulsions of people from various areas of the world and are too often neglected as a driver of global migration flows. Sassen emphasized that legal frameworks need to adapt in order to address the ‘hidden’, systemic roots of migration.

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International Criminal Justice Series, Vol. 16
Judicial Responses to Pre-Trial Procedural Violations in International Criminal Proceedings

Author: Kelly Pitcher

Due January 2018

Print ISBN: 978-94-6265-218-7
EBook/Online ISBN: 978-94-6265-219-4
Distributed for T.M.C. Asser Press by Springer