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HiiL Co-organised Seminar on the Use of Indicators in the field of Rule of Law

On 31 August 2010, international leading experts on developing indicators in the field of governance, corruption, and access to justice meet for a closed-door seminar in Washington D.C, which was co-organised by the World Justice Project and the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL). The seminar intended to shield light on basic guidelines or best practices for indicator development and indicator use in the Rule of Law area for policy analysis.

Abiola Makinwa announced as the winner of the first HiiL Law of the Future Young Talent Essay Competition

03 August 2010

After careful consideration by the competition’s Jury - composed of three members of the Programmatic Steering Board of HiiL:Prof. Anne van Aaken, Prof. Ewoud Hondius and Judge Kimberley Prost - HiiL is pleased to announce that the winner of the contest is Ms. Abiola Makinwa. The jury found this “the most original and future oriented of all essays. It is very well written, in excellent English. The ideas are innovative and the subject-matter is very interesting”.

Internship for the Legal Tools project

As a partner in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC's) Legal Tools project and one of the Legal Tools Outsourcing Partners, HiiL would like to offer to interested students an opportunity to participate in our work on the this project.

Do you have a strong interest in and affinity with International Criminal Law, as well as strong analytical skills? Would you like to be a part of the growing field of International Criminal Law, conduct research for relevant documents in the area and assist in the creation of a valuable tool for the ICC? If yes, this project might be right for you.

Short-listed essays - Law of the Future Young Talent Essay Competition

As part of the preparation of the Law of the Future Conference 2011, HiiL launched the Law of the Future Young Talent Essay Competition, inviting young scholars from around the world to submit original essays about the law of the future.

Having completed the first phase of assessment, HiiL is pleased to announce the names of the authors whose essays were shortlisted and are now nominated for the final selection.

The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law – Volume 2 is now available

'spread American principles of justice, especially in places that resist them'
Justice Anthony Kennedy

In the latest issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, David Pimentel argues that the kind of thinking embodied in the quotation above, with its imperialistic tone, potentially causes huge problems for the whole rule of law enterprise.

In the second of the two highlighted papers, David Luban examines the relationship between the rule of law and human dignity, by revisiting the philosopher Lon Fuller’s concept of the rule of law in eight 'canons'.