We’re hiring! Three vacancies at the Asser Institute

The Asser Institute is currently looking for a researcher in Private International Law and two interns.

The institute invites applications for:

How to remember the past? Book launch and workshop on memory laws

Disarmament and non-proliferation training in times of new nuclear arms race

Asser Institute researcher new Editor in Chief of the Security and Human Rights Monitor

World Court weighs Britain's claim to Chagos Islands in Indian Ocean

“These things come together now in a combination of historical accident and intense political and popular interest in questions of colonial legacy,” international law expert Geoff Gordon of the Asser Institute said in an interview with Reuters.

For the full piece see here.

Dr Gordon has also been quoted in the Dutch newspapers Trouw and NRC on the same topic.

26 September 2018 Lecture: Improving the sustainability of EU Free Trade Agreements

For nearly a decade, the European Union has included so-called trade and sustainability chapters (FTAs) in its free trade agreements. These chapters must ensure that trade and investment liberalisation does not lead to a deterioration in environmental and labour conditions. A new academic lecture by Dr Wybe Douma on September 26 will address the question: do these chapters really work in practice, or are they a form of green washing? And how could we improve them?

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17 September 2018 Trust and deference between legal authorities in the world

Trust and deference are crucial mechanisms of interaction and cooperation between legal authorities in the world. For the purpose of this workshop, deference means that an authority does not make its own assessment or decision in a particular matter but relies on the judgment of another authority. It ultimately means that the deferring authority puts its trust in the authority it defers to. It has trust that the second authority makes a correct decision in matters of fact and law, especially the rule of law.

Our aim is to study the operation of trust-based legal interactions between authorities in the international legal context. To do so, we zoom in on two particular areas of (private and public) international law in which we believe legal mechanisms embodying trust and deference play a visible role in practice: international economic law and the transnational circulation of judgments and awards.

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The Duty of Care of International Organizations Towards Their Civilian Personnel - Legal Obligations and Implementation Challenges