The Hague Highest Courts Network
The Hague Highest Courts Network (HHCN) is dealing with a research process on one of the most controversial and innovative phenomenon in the contemporary global legal sphere: The growing interconnection between national pinnacle Courts (Supreme or Constitutional Courts).
Dialogue between judges | At the beginning of the millennium, many scholars all over the world defined a new pattern of relationship among States. This pattern was not following the classical form of relations, but an international communication based on a legal interconnection, escaping or avoiding the national political and institutional controls. The triggers of this new pattern were the judges and, in particular, the ones of the national pinnacle courts. The defined phenomenon was implied the notion of “dialogue between judges”.
Goal | The HHCN, convened by HiiL, aims at facilitating global dialogues through debates and discussions between judges on the changing role of highest courts in an internationalising world. The HHCN has been instrumental in identifying core societally relevant research questions and in organising two meetings in cooperation with the Dutch Hoge Raad as part of a reform process outlined in the Hammerstein Report. The HHCN also contributed to a workshop organised for the Dutch Staatscommissie Herziening Grondwet (State Commission on Constitutional Revision).
Membership | Members of the HHCN are invited to join online discussions and to exchange ideas and share information through this website. Please contact Prof. Andrea Lollini for more information on HHCN membership.
The strength of the HHCN lies in its membership. This also means that the key to making it a real success is not with the convener, but with each and every one of you. We hope and believe that actively engaging with the network will prove itself a useful investment.
With best regards,
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Dr. Sam Muller |
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Prof. Andrea Lollini |
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Prof. Ton Hol |
