Research Themes

HiiL’s research pursues innovation in five themes, which together provide a coherent perspective on the challenges globalisation poses to legal systems. In each of these themes, HiiL research addresses issues highly relevant to our contemporary internationalised and multi-layered environment.

The HiiL research agenda is organised according to the following themes:

• Rule of Law
• Private Actors
• Highest Courts
• Transnational Constitutionality
• Criminal Process and International Crime

Contact Information

Dr David Raic | Deputy Director & Head of Research Programming
+31 70 349 4403 | david.raic@hiil.org

''HiiL was conceived as something that had to have added value, both for universities and for practice. We did want to replicate a law faculty or a national research council. Our networked approach, building research bottom-up with practice, is our niche. We connect the best academics on a particular topic with the people and organisations that are struggling with the challenges of law and globalisation.
The goal: work on solutions! And we do that in a way universities cannot.' David Raic