About HiiL
HiiL is a research and advisory institute for the justice sector. Providing crucial knowledge to make law work for people and their organisations - that is our mission.
We provide our clients with:
- Services founded on best practices, combined with expertise from comparative legal research, economics and the social sciences to create knowledge that is directly relevant
- Approaches suited to a fast-changing environment that provide evaluation and evidence about what is fair, what is effective and what is future proof in a globalising world
- Consultancy on how to improve legal systems, with profits reinvested in new research on what works in the justice sector
- A unique international network of academics and high-level practitioners from government, business, and civil society, facilitated by a small support staff
- Energising interactive projects, working from challenges to innovative solutions, that are implemented in a sustainable way
Based on our understanding of the needs of our clients in the justice sector, as well as the justice needs served by the sector, we offer assistance that is:
- Multidisciplinary | not rigidly compartmentalised, as in conventional academic approaches
- Dynamic | going beyond the view of legal principles and traditions as static, normative benchmarks
- Comprehensive | avoiding the problem-by-problem approach of major law firms
- Agile |not bogged down in the policy debates found in complex international organisations
- Practical | not just producing reports that never get implemented.
HiiL is a not for profit foundation. It is funded by income from the services we perform for our clients and by contributions from governments, philantropic foundations and social entrepreneurs. These contributions enable us to support innovation in the justice sector with open knowledge platforms and specific tools.
