by Manon Tiessink On 15 and 16 January 2018, CILC’s Indonesian partner organisation the Institute for Research and Advocacy for Independent Courts (LeIP) organised a two-day multi-stakeholder conference; the Indonesian Judicial Reform Forum (IJRF). The conference...
Dowload the call for applications here. The Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC) has been shortlisted for the project “Support to the Court of Cassation” in Serbia. The project aims to strengthen the capacities of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) and...
By Willem van Nieuwkerk On 16 June 2017 the Legal Education Centre at the University of Nottingham hosted a conference on “Legal Education, Legal Practice and Technology”. The conference included and awarded a prize to the paper “Legal education and...
by Eva Erren A 3-year project to enforce the rule of law in Serbia officially started last week when a needs assessment has been conducted in Belgrade and Novi Sad. The project aims to decrease overcrowding in correctional institutions through a more proper use of...
By Manon Tiessink “CILC is a miracle” according to Jan van Olden, co-founder and former director of CILC. Despite the uncertain financial basis and constant changes in the field, the Center for International Legal Cooperation has managed to survive, reinvent itself...
The Journal Vreemdelingenrecht published an article in which the statistics show that in 2017 Germany registered the highest number of asylum applications, followed by Italy and France. In practice the authors conclude that the legal rules from the Dublin...
The twinning project “Renforcement des capacités du Conseil National des Droits de l’Homme” has come to an end. Initially foreseen to last until May 2017, it was extended until the end of November. The closing ceremony took place on 29 November in Rabat....
by Eva Erren The 2017-2018 Shiraka Training Programme on Legislation took place in The Hague between 9-17 November 2017. In comparison to the previous training years, 12 countries were represented among the 25 participants. This diversity facilitated a comparative...
by Elger Vermeer Last week, an exchange visit was organised in the context of the project “Capacity Development in Higher Legal Education”. The project invited 10 Palestinian law professors from the partner universities of An Najah, Hebron, Al Quds and Birzeit to...
The peer-reviewed journal Global Politics Review published a special issue on rising populism and its influence on foreign policy in October 2017. In her article titled Influencing the EU’s Foreign Policy on Asylum and Migration: Populist Political Dynamics and...
by Eric Vincken On 14 and 15 November 2017, the closing conference of the IPA2014 project ‘International Cooperation in Criminal Justice: Prosecutors’ Network of the Western Balkans’ took place in Berlin. Representatives from the beneficiaries’ public prosecution...
By Mavi Cristache The Shiraka 2016 Legislation course was among the fist steps to explore a new vision of teaching and learning at CILC. Together with the participants, trainers and Shiraka team at CILC, Yuen Yen Tsai built a space of play from which an active...
By Ingrid de Haer with input from Sandi Valentic and Sanda Hrsto A group of 8 judges, 2 state attorneys, 2 Judicial Academy representatives and the Resident Twinning Advisor Language Assistant visited Spain (Barcelona, Madrid and Segovia) for a study visit between 2...
