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The Public International (PIL) Cluster of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut currently consists of two senior researchers (Dr. Olivier Ribbelink and Dr. Christophe Paulussen LL.M. M.Phil. (coordinator)) and two junior researchers (PhD candidate Jessica Dorsey LL.M. J.D. BA. and Onur Güven LL.M.).

The four PIL researchers collectively have experience and expertise in many areas of public international law, namely:

• the rule of law
• the law of nations
• state succession
• the law and practice of the UN and other international organisations
• space law
• arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation law
• collective security law
• the legal framework of CBRN risk mitigation
• human rights and development.

Currently, the PIL Cluster has a strong focus on:

• international human rights law
• counter-terrorism and human rights
• international humanitarian law
• international criminal law.

The Cluster also has a certain reputation to uphold in these latter fields. It has not only initiated the well-known and very successful Supranational Criminal Law (SCL) Lecture Series. which celebrated its 10 th anniversary in 2013, and the well-attended occasional lecture series of the Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict (HILAC). celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2015, but it is also known for its endeavours between 2003 and 2008, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross. in drafting the international humanitarian law notion of ‘Direct Participation in Hostilities’ .

Networks

The members of the Cluster have vast (inter)national networks, not only in the Dutch academic world, but also beyond. Via its lecture series, trainings, databases, projects, conferences, summer programmes and fundamental and applied research, and because of its unique place in the centre of The Hague’s international legal and political community, members of the Cluster work with high-level scholars and professionals on a regular basis, from, for instance: