The Network Events
April 2011 | Sixth Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
This year's theme is "Rule of Law Promotion and Security Sector Reform (SSR): Partners or Rivals?". Our aim is to explore the many affinities and tensions that exist between rule of law promotion and SSR. It will bring together academics and subject-matter specialists. The meeting is organised by HiiL in close collaboration with Prof. Julio Faundez of the University of Warwick School of Law and with the Folke Bernadotte Academy. It will lead to the publication of a special issue on this topic in the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (HJRL). Read more »
April 2010 | Fifth Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
Discussion about the results of the Measuring Access to Justice project, presentation of the Handbook for Measuring the Costs and Quality of Access to Justice. Read more »
April 2009 | Fourth Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
Civil -Military cooperation in building the rule of law. Read more »
April 2008 | Third Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
In addition to discussing internal network matters and following up on issues discussed in past meetings, the third meeting of the HRoLN was the first to be dedicated to a particularly defined theme: The Quest for Bottom-Up: Finding, Articulating and Channelling Rule of Law Demand. Alongside lectures of a more general character, the meeting included case-study presentations pertaining to East Asian countries, Afghanistan, The Philippines, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on the presentations and subsequent discussion, several provisional conclusions and policy recommendations were adopted. Read more »
October 2007 | HiiL Law of the Future conference on the rule of law
HiiL’s first Law of the Future conference drew on prior meetings of the Network and was attended by many of the members of HRoLN, alongside other eminent experts and interested parties. This conference was held on 26 - 27 October 2007 under the title Further Conceptualisation and Practical Progress on Building Coherent and Effective Rule of Law. Read more »
April 2007 | Second Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
The presentations and discussions during this meeting were based on the Inventory Report on the Rule of Law, the preparation of which was one of the outcomes of the first meeting. Dr. Ronald Janse (Utrecht University, Netherlands) who had prepared the Academic Part of the Inventory Report with Mr Rain Liivoja (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Dr. Maria Dolores Sanchez Galera (Rome), and Mr Thomas McInerney, General Counsel of IDLO, who had prepared the Practice Part of the Inventory Report with a team of 5 researchers, were given the floor to present the Inventory Report. These presentations were followed by general discussions and reflections. The main points that were discussed were the definitional issue (‘thin’ versus ‘thick’ notions of the rule of law); the question of sequencing – what should be the order of actions by which the rule of law is to be built or promoted; and the challenge of measuring rule of law or progress in building it. To a large extent, these topics formed the substantive basis for HiiL’s Law of the Future conference which was held later that year.
April 2006 | First Annual Meeting of the Hague Rule of Law Network
The principal objective of the first meeting (April 2007) was to explore where and how HiiL, given its Research Programme, could most effectively contribute to the ongoing debate on the rule of law. The discussions resulted in two main conclusions. First, both practitioners and academics felt a need for more and closer networking with a view towards achieving a more effective understanding and coordination. HiiL was requested to take on the task of acting as a convener of the network and it agreed to do so.
Secondly, it was agreed that a knowledge gathering exercise to map out the lay of the land insofar as it related to the rule of law. HiiL and the International Law and Development Organization (IDLO) offered to coordinate this effort. It was decided that the knowledge gathering would result in an Inventory Report, which was to consist of two parts: (a) an Academic Part, aimed at providing an overview and summary analysis of paradigms and knowledge acquired in the past decades through academic research; and (b) a Practice Part, aimed at providing an overview of the practice manuals, evaluations, indexes, databases of the most relevant institutions working on the rule of law.