OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040024OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040023OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA334OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040014OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA330 Within the framework of Indonesian–Dutch legal cooperation a seminar for legislative drafters took place in Jakarta between 4...
Five Russian students from various universities in Moscow and St-Petersburg visited The Hague 3-10 July for an intensive study week that focused on international law, the international courts and tribunals in The Hague, the Dutch legal system and the bilateral...
In May and June CILC paid a visit to Moscow and Yekaterinburg for a working meeting on legal aid provision and a roundtable on a survey on legal needs and access to justice. On Monday May 30 the Russian Ministry of Justice in Moscow hosted a working meeting on legal...
The two-day seminar aimed at deepening the understanding of the importance of the jurisprudence of the ECHR took place in Skopje on 6 and 7 June. Judges and Justices from first and second instance courts from all over Macedonia, as well as representatives of the...
On 19 and 20 May 2011, an expert conference was held in Sofia to discuss the regulatory framework for the functioning of the private enforcement agents’ system in Bulgaria. As the conference was also the last activity of the project, it marked the completion of the...
Together with legal experts Steven Blockmans (T.M.C. Asser Institute) and Zdeněk Kühn (Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic) CILC visited Macedonia to hold two seminars on the role of jurisprudence in university law education and training programmes for...
A delegation of the Croatian Ministry of Justice visited The Hague 18 – 30 April for an intensive two-week training course on the practical aspects of EU Law and EU Law issues. Fourteen key staff members of various Directorates and Departments of the Croatian Ministry...
Legal certainties and investment rights in the Russian Federation given a boost by a two year Dutch-Russian legal cooperation project. Over the past 24 months the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation, the highest judicial body for the resolution of...
The Innovative Rule of Law Initiative (IRI) aims to address the static nature of the Rule of Law sector by stimulating, facilitating and improving (creating products and services for lasting) innovation in this domain. CILC contributes to this process by developing...
In the summer of 2011 CILC will organize a study visit to The Hague Legal Capital for a group of Russian law students. The students are being selected on the basis of an essay contest, organized by the Dutch Embassy in Moscow, on international law in various Russian...
At the end of October CILC received the good news from Nuffic that it has been chosen, together with the consortium partner MUNDO-Maastricht University, to jointly implement the project entitled “Strengthening Forensic Expertise and management of Scenes of Crime in...
On Wednesday, November 24 CILC received the head of the Astana branch of the Kazachstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Miss Anara Ibrayeva. The discussion focused on imperfections in the Kazakh Legal system ranging from court management...
On Friday 12 November the opening conference of the new Macedonia Jurisprudence project took place in Skopje. The conference served as the official kick-off and scene setter for a new 3-year project that is to strengthen the rule of law in Macedonia by focusing on the...
Early in October CILC visited the Russian Supreme Commercial Court in Moscow, accompanied by the Dutch legal experts Huub Willems and Wim Timmermans, for a round-table discussion on improving the commercial court practice and legislation on the registration of legal...
This week CILC will visits Moscow to attend a round-table meeting on the assessment of citizens’ legal needs. This visit is part of the new Matra project on implementing a professional civil legal aid system in Russia, aimed at ensuring effective access to justice for...