Its current (2022-2026) research agenda is ‘Rethinking public interests in international and European Law: Pairing critical reflection with perspectives for action.'

The Asser PhD Programme[3] offers promising young lawyers the opportunity to work on their research.

This ranges from tailored consultancy finding (ad hoc) solutions for small legal issues to coordination and/or export of long-term structural (research) projects.

Clients include among others the European Union, national governments, ministries, international organizations, and law firms.

[4] They serve as a platform for high-level discussions and interactions with the institute's multitude of partners, academics and practitioners, policy-makers, and the wider legal community of The Hague and beyond.

Each year the institute invites an internationally renowned jurist and outstanding public intellectual to take inspiration from Tobias Asser’s vision and to examine how to respond to ‘the condition of society’.

It aspires to be a platform for constructive, critical reflection on the role of law in addressing the challenges and (potentially radical) changes of the global society of the 21st century.

Speakers at the Annual Lecture have included Brigid Laffan (2022), Andrew Murray (2020), Anne Orford (2019), Martti Koskenniemi (2018), Saskia Sassen (2017), Onora O'Neill (2016), and Joseph Weiler (2015).

Asser Instituut, the Netherlands Red Cross and the Amsterdam Center for International Law and held at the T.M.C.