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Scientific Publications and Working Papers


Criminal Process and Internationalised Crime

Working Papers:

  • Concept Paper for Colloquium, How to Adjudicate the Most Serious Crimes? (August 2007)
    In English | In French
  • Proceedings of the Colloquium, How to Adjudicate the Most Serious Crimes? (July 2008)


    • Highest Courts: A Changing Role in an Internationalising World

    Scientific Publications:

  • Sam Muller and Marc Loth (eds.) Highest Courts and the Internationalisation of Law - Challenges and Change
      • Read the book's Summary | Table of Contents | Preface


    Working Papers:

  • 'The Changing Role of Highest Courts in an Internationalising World' - Inventory and Bibliography
  • Report on HiiL's Law of the Future Conference 2008, on 'The Changing Role of Highest Courts in an Internationalising World'
  • The Highest Courts Research Project Factsheet: In English | In French


    • Private Actors and Self-Regulation

    Working Papers:

  • Draft "New Lex Mercatoria Concept Paper" (2007) which formed the basis for the discussions during the First Brainstorm Session (November 2007).
  • Revised Concept Paper: "The Added Value of Private Regulation in an Internationalised World? Towards a Model of the Legitimacy, Effectiveness, Enforcement and Quality of Private Regulation" (May 2008)
  • Inventory Report (including a survey of literature and research Programmes in the area of Private Actors and Self-Regulation) (May 2008).
  • Conference Report of the Second Meeting (August 2008).
  • Tender Document, Private Actors and Self-Regulation (September 2008)


    • Rule of Law: Changing Contexts and New Challenges

    Working Papers:

  • Report on the European Launch Event of the Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Making the Law Work for Everyone. (coming soon)
  • Report on the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network (HRoLN), on Civil-Military Cooperation in Building the Rule of Law.Compilation of Materials Concerning Rule of Law Measurement (2009) (work in progress, draft available to members of the HRoLN members on the network’s website).
  • Rule of Law Bibliography (updated 2009).
  • Report on the Third Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network (2008) (available to HRoLN members on the network’s website).
  • Binder of the papers presented at the First Law of the Future Conference (2008) (circulated to participants and also available to HRoLN members on the network’s website).
  • Report on the First Law of the Future Conference (Further Conceptualization and Practical Progress on Building Coherent and Effective Rule of Law Programmes and Strategies) (2008).
  • Report on the Second High Level Expert Meeting on the Rule of Law (2007) (available to HRoLN members on the network’s website).
  • Rule of Law Tender Document (2007).
  • Rule of Law Inventory Report (2007).
  • Inventory Report, Rule of Law (Academic Part), comprising a comprehensive inventory and bibliography (2007), cited in The Economist.
  • Report on the First High Level Meeting on the Rule of Law (2006) (available to HRoLN members on the network’s website).


    • Transnational Constitutionality

    Working Papers:

  • Draft Concept Paper (December 2007).
  • Brief Report on the First Brainstorm Session (held in December 2007).
  • Revised Concept Paper (Constitutions in the Age of Internationalization: Towards Transnational Constitution Standards) (May 2008).
  • Report on HiiL’s Workshop at the Fifth 'From Peace to Justice' Conference of the Hague Academic Coalition (held in May 2008).
  • Inventory Report (Literature and Research Regarding Democracy and Accountability in the Context of Informal International Public Policy-Making) (September 2008).
  • Tender Document (Democracy and Accountability in the Context of Informal International Public Policy-Making ) (September 2008).


    • Measuring Access to Justice in a Globalising World, the Hague Model of Access to Justice

    Scientific Publications:

  • Barendrecht, M. (2009) “In Search of Microjustice: Five Basic Elements of a Dispute System”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 002/2009.
  • Barendrecht, M. (2009) “Best Practices for an Affordable and Sustainable Dispute System A Toolbox for Microjustice”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 003/2009.
  • Gramatikov, M. & Laxminarayan, M. (2009), “Weighting Justice: Constructing an Index of Access to Justice”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 18/2008.
  • Laxminarayan, M. (2009), “Measuring Crime Victims’ Paths to Justice: Developing Indicators for Costs and Quality of Access to Justice”.
  • Barendrecht, J.M. , Kamminga, P. & Verdonschot, J.H. (2008) “Priorities for the Justice System: Responding to the most Urgent Legal Problems of the Individuals”. TISCO Working Paper No. 001/2008, Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No. 002/2008, TILEC Discussion Paper No 2008-011.
  • Gramatikov, M. (2008) “A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Paths to Justice”. Jurisprudence. Vol. 2, February 2009, 111, TISCO Working Paper Series on Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems No. 006/2008.
  • Gramatikov, M., Barendrecht, J.M. & Verdonschot, J.H. (2008) “Measuring the Costs and Quality of Paths to Justice: Contours of a Methodology”. Presented at the conference Reaching Further: New Approaches to the Delivery of Justice, London , Legal Services Research Centre, June 18-20, 2008), TISCO Working Paper Series on Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems No. 004/2008, Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 009/2008.
  • Klaming, L. & Giesen, I. (2008) “Access to Justice: The Quality of Procedure”. Presented at the 18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, July 2008), TISCO Working Paper Series on Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems No. 002/2008.
  • Klaming, L. & Gramatikov, M. (2008) “Justice as Experienced by the User: A Study of the Costs and Quality of a Path to Justice in the Netherlands”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 004/2009.
  • Verdonschot, J.H., Barendrecht, J.M., Klaming, L. & Kamminga P. (2008) “Measuring Access to Justice: The Quality of Outcomes”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 14/2008, TISCO Working Paper No. 007/2008.
  • Gramatikov, M. (2007) “Methodological Challenges in Measuring Cost and Quality of Access to Jusctice”. Tilburg University Legal Studies Working Paper No 005/2008, TISCO Working Paper Series on Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems No. 002/2008.
  • Barendrecht, J.M., Mulder, J. & Giesen, I. (2006) “How to Measure the Price and Quality of Access to Justice?".


    • Convergence and Divergence of National Legal Systems: Coping with the Challenges of Globalization - A TILEC Contribution to the HiiL Research Programme

    Scientific Publications:

  • Cserne, P. (2009) “Policy arguments before courts: The role of consequentialist reasoning in judicial procedures”.
    • Paper presented at the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Social and Political Philosophers (Silesian University Katowice, 2 May 2009),  Seminar on Legal and Economic Reasoning (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, 13 May 2009), Post-doctoral Conference in Law and Economics (Universität Hamburg, Graduiertenkolleg Recht und Ökonomik, 18 July 2009) and forthcoming in a volume with selected papers from the Katowice Forum in 2010.
  • Chirico, F. and Larouche, P. (2008) “Conceptual Divergence, Functionalism, and the Economics of Convergence”, in The Coherence of EU Law. Eds: Prechal, S. & van Roermund, B. OUP. pp. 463-494.
  • Chirico, F. (2008) “When is Divergence a Problem? The Case of a Global Competition Order”.
    • Presentations based on this paper were made at the CLEEN Workshop in Norwich, UK, on 12-13 June 2008 and at the XXV Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics in Haifa, Israel, (24-26 September 2008)
    • Paper soon to appear in the TILEC DP Series on SSRN
  • Larouche, P. (2008) “Ex Ante Evaluation of Legislation Torn amongst Its Rationales”, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2008-029.
  • Lavrijssen, S. and Hancher, L. (2008) “European Regulators in the Network Sectors: Revolution or Evolution?” TILEC Discussion Paper No 2008-024.
  • De Visser, M. (2007) “Revolution or Evolution – What Future for EC Communications Law?” TILEC Discussion Paper No 2007-028.


    • National Resistance against the Europeanisation of Private Law

    Scientific Publications:

  • Smits, J.M. (2009) “Full Harmonization of Consumer Law? A Critique of the Draft Directive on Consumer Rights”. TICOM Working Paper on Comparative and Transnational Law 2009/2;
  • Low, G. (2009) "How and Why We Are (Not) Bothered By the Costs of Legal Diversity - A Behavioural Approach to the Harmonization of European Contract Law".  Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law Working Paper No. 2009/8;


    • The Relevance of National Constitutional Law in a Globalizing World: The Separation of Powers as a Restriction on National Courts to Interpret Norms of Public International Law

    Scientific Publications:

  • Haljan, D. (2008) “Is the Rule of Law a Limit on Popular Sovereignty?”. Final version published in: Facing the Limits of the Law. Eds: Claes, E., Deyroe, W. & Keirsbilck, B. Springer. Berlin. E-book available here.


    • National Courts as European Community Courts: The Functioning of National Courts as Decentralized Community Courts: Community Law’s Expectations vs. the Knowledge, Experiences and Attitudes of National Judges

    Scientific Publications:

  • Nowak, T., Wissink, M. (2008) “Onderzoeksproject: Nationale rechtbanken en Europees Recht - Een onderzoek naar kennis, ervaring en opvattingen van nationale rechters betreffende Europees Recht” in Trema vol. 31 no. 7 pp. 320-322 (English translation: Research Project: National Judges and European Law – A Study of the Experiences, Knowledge and Conceptions of National Judges concerning European Law). 
  • Nowak, T. & Wissink, M. (2008) “Nationale Richter und Europäisches Recht” in Richter und Staatsanwalt in Nordrhein-Westfalen vol. 29, no 5, pp. 9-10.