ICLN - International Criminal Law Network

Welcome to the website of the International Criminal Law Network!

The advancement of international criminal law, professional and social interaction on a worldwide level between academics, policymakers and legal professionals is essential. For this reason the International Criminal Law Network (ICLN) was founded in 2002 by Science Alliance with the support of the Dutch Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs and the Municipality of The Hague. ICLN has the mission to organise professional and social interaction on a worldwide level between academics, policymakers and legal professionals in the area of international criminal law. In order to realise this goal, ICLN organises successful activities on a wide scale, such as an Annual Conference, several lectures per year, the ICC Trial Competition and regional training workshops. Thousands of people from all over the world have visited the events of ICLN. Please take a look at our website to learn more about our activities and future events.  

Lieneke Louman, Manager ICLN

“The forum that this network provides, linking the academic world to policy makers and legal professionals is crucial to ensure that international criminal justice grows with the best ideas in academia enriching its discourse, whilst being firmly grounded in the realities of state politics and the interests of legal practice"

Mrs. Silvana Arbia, Registrar of the ICC, at the ICLN Annual Reception on June 29, 2010 

ICLN wishes to thank those members who were kind enough to take their precious time, completing and returning the survey, to share their thoughts, insights and feedback with the ICLN executive. Your feedback is crucial in ICLN’s goals in 2011 and 2012 to improve and expand our commitment, breadth and depth of services to you, our stakeholders, our members.

Now, ICLN is excited to announce that we have begun our Membership Renewal Phone Campaign. Through our communications firm, nanoMPR, we will be contacting our members directly not only to renew their financial commitment to ICLN; but to begin a new dialogue between ICLN and its members. We look forward to your personal input. To achieve ICLN’s goals for the future, we want and need your support. In return, ICLN will offer you an unparalleled resource. Thank you for your commitment to the principles and practice of International Law,  International Criminal Law and to ICLN.

On 15 April 2011, the final round of the 4th edition of the ICLN ICC Trial Competition took place at the International Criminal Court. After four days of pre-rounds, the teams from Bond University (Australia), Nalsar University of Law (India) and Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) proceeded to the finals. 

The winner of the ICLN ICC Trial Competition 2011 is Bond University (Australia).

ICLN would like to thank all the teams, panel members, the ICC and sponors who were involved in the 2011 Competition and who made it such a succes.

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From 10-15 April 2011, the 4th edition of the ICLN ICC Trial Competition will take place at the World Forum Convention Center.

ICLN is proud to announce that the 4th edition of the ICC Trial Competition is now the only official English ICC Trial Competition that has the full support of the ICC. This ICC-inspired moot court competition offers students worldwide the rare and remarkable opportunity to take on the roles of Victim representative, Prosecutor and Defence Counsel to plead in front of leading experts in the field of international criminal law.

The semi-Finals and Finals will be held for one week in April and will take place in The Hague. Most excitingly, for the first time, finalists of the Competition will compete for the winning prize in a courtroom at the ICC; adjudicated by ICC judges.

For more information you can visit the ICLN ICC Trial Competition website.

ICLN Annual Reception 2010

Short Summary 

On Tuesday June 29, 2010 ICLN held her Annual Reception hosted by the law firm Buren van Velzen Guelen in The Hague.

With the first ICC Review Conference having been held only two weeks before, the Annual Reception 2010 was a timely event for students, academics and practitioners alike. The audience was certainly reflective of this: there were app. 80 attendees, made up of interested people at all levels of seniority, from interns at various Hague tribunals to representatives from NGO's and Embassies. The three speakers represented some of the highest in their speciality: Mrs. Silvana Arbia, the Registrar of the ICC, Prof. William Schabas, a renowned academic expert and the Director of the Irish Human Rights Centre and Mr. de Savornin-Lohman, the Dutch Ambassador to the ICC. Each of them could not only provide their professional analysism, but also add a personal touch, as they had all been personally present at the Review Conference itself.

Members of the audience also shared their experiences like a representative of Human Rights Watch, lending the NGO viewpoint, and the Ambassador from Uganda, sharing the Ugandan perspective as both a participant and the host of the Review Conference.

In this way, an event that began as a series of lectures was naturally transformed into a wide discussion, one which continued over the wine and snacks that followed the formal conclusion. ICLN is extremely pleased with the success of the Annual Reception, and already looks forward to the Autumn Lecture in September.