Recent Publications

Law of the Future Forum

Signposting the space of the legal future

The Law Scenarios to 2030 provide three wind tunnels in which ideas and strategies concerning the law of the future can be tested and debated.
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Outcome of 2011 Law of the Future Conference:
Publication: Law of the Future Vision 2011

The first results of the discussions that were shared during the 2011 Law of the Future Conference are published in the Law of the Future Vision 2011. This brief report captures the essence of the debate and also contains the plans for the further development of the Law of the Future Forum. Download PDF

49 Think Pieces on how will law evolve in the next 20 years
Publication: The Law of the Future and the Future of Law

Some of the world’s best academics and leading practitioners were involved in the Law of the Future Programme. More than 100 experts have been consulted through interviews and Think Pieces. The submitted Expert Think Pieces have been compiled into the exclusive 750 pages publication: The Law of the Future and the Future of Law. Download PDF and/or order the publication

Corporate publications

April 2011 | News article: Omdraaien is de beste optie
Dutch daily newspaper De Pers
April 2011 | HiiL Factsheet
February 2011 | Innovatie van civiele rechtspleging: de regie naar rechter en gebruiker
(in Dutch) - Maurits Barendrecht, the 2011 Hague Visiting Professor on the Rule of Law
November 2010 | HiiL Achievements and Aspirations 2005/2010
September 2010 | HiiL Corporate Flyer
Publiek/privaat: vervlechten of ontvlechten? (in Dutch)
Investeer in kennis over rechtsstaatopbouw in fragiele staten (in Dutch)
Internationale regels reiken steeds verder (in Dutch)
Nieuwe rechtsvergelijking: kijken naar resultaat (in Dutch)
Rechtsverbanden: recht als quantum mechanica (in Dutch)

HiiL Highlights

December 2011 | HiiL Highlights
November 2011 | HiiL Highlights
October 2011 | HiiL Highlights - Special edition | The future of courts:
challenges and innovations
July 2011 | HiiL Highlights - Special edition | HiiL presents first ever scenarios for
the future of law
June 2011 | HiiL Highlights
May 2011 | HiiL Highlights
April 2011 | HiiL Highlights - Special edition | Financial Report 2010 approved
April 2011 | HiiL Highlights - Special edition | New funding for HiiL
April 2011 | HiiL Highlights
December 2010 | HiiL Highlights
November 2010 | HiiL Highlights
June 2010 | HiiL Highlights
March 2010 | HiiL Highlights

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Scientific publications

HiiL Research theme | Rule of Law

Courts, Competition and Innovation. Inaugural Lecture by Maurits Barendrecht, Hague Visiting Professor on the Rule of Law
A Handbook for Measuring the Costs and Quality of Access to Justice
De opbouw van de rechtsstaat in Afghanistan - Een bezinning op tien jaar buitenlandse hulp (in Dutch)
Justitiele Verkenningen Volume 36, July 2010, with contribution by Veronica Taylor. 'De opbouw van de rechtsstaat in Afghanistan - Een bezinning op tien jaar buitenlandse hulp'

HiiL Research theme | Private Actors

Introduction to special issue: Harmonisation of contract law: an economic and behavioural perspective (forthcoming - 2012)
How to build European private law: an economic analysis of the lawmaking and harmonization dimensions in European private law (forthcoming - 2012)
The limits of contract law harmonization (forthcoming - 2012)
Will firms consider a European optional instrument in contract law? (forthcoming - 2012)
Is harmonization of legal rules an appropriate target? Lessons from the global financial crisis (forthcoming - 2012)
The Challenge of Transnational Private Regulation: Conceptual and Constitutional Debates
Prof. Jan M. Smits: Private Law 2.0: on the Role of Private Actors in a Post-National Society, inaugural lecture for the UM - HiiL Chair on the Internationalisation of Law
The OMC and its patch in the European regulatory and constitutional landscape
Private Regulation, Supply Chain and Contractual Networks: The Case of Food Safety
Regulatory governance and the challenge of constitutionalism
The (Ir)Relevance of Harmonization and Legal Diversity to European Contract Law: A Perspective from Psychology
Bounded’ Regulatory Competition in The Market For European Contract Laws

HiiL Research theme | Highest Courts

HiiL Research theme | Transnational Constitutionality

Project Framing Report - Informal International Public Policy Making (IIPPM): Mapping the Action and testing Concepts of Accountability and Effectiveness (draft)
Informal International Public Policy Making (IIPPM): Mapping the Action and testing Concepts of Accountability and Effectiveness
Beyond "Law vs. Politics" in Constitutional Adjudication: Lessons from South Korea
To Make “We the People”: Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea
The Dynamics of Constitutionalism in an Age of Globalization

Hiil Research | Measuring Access to Justice in a Globalising World, the Hague Model of Access to Justice

Gramatikov, M. , Barendrecht, J.M. , Laxminaryan, M. , Verdonschot, J.H., Klaming, L. & Van Zeeland, C. (2010) "A Handbook for Measuring the Costs and Quality of Access to Justice" Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution System s /TISCO. Maklu Uitgevers.
April 2010 | Measuring Access to Justice in a Globalising World