The following is information about the activities and publications of the Ibero-American Institute of The Hague (IIH) in the Semester 2025-I received from Professor Hector Olasolo, President, IIH.
- The Official Program of the XII Ibero-American Week of International Justice (The Hague, May 21 – June 4, 2025),includes the following activities:
-XII CPI Competition for Judicial Simulation before the International Criminal Court (Spanish version) with 19 universities from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
-International Seminar for the XX Anniversary of the Office of Public Defence of Victims of the International Criminal Court (OPDV), the XV Anniversary of the IIH and the XV Anniversary of the International Legal Clinic developed by both entities in alliance with the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia).
-IX Seminar on International Thought on International Criminal Justice where the following will be presented: (a) Volumes 16 to 42 of the Ibero-American Perspectives on Justice Collection published between 2024 and 2025 (available for free download at: https://editorial.tirant.com/es/colecciones/perspectivas-iberoamericanas-sobre-la-justicia); (b) the research work carried out in the period 2011-2025 by the International Legal Clinic; and (c) the essays selected from the CEBOS and CECJ Competitions.
For more information, please visit: https://www.iberoamericaninstituteofthehague.org/actividades/semana-iberoamericana-de-la-justicia-internacional-y-los-derechos-humanos
- Sending to the Publisher the trilogy prepared in commemoration of the XV IIH Anniversary entitled: THE TRILOGY ON THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FROM NON-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVES. It is expected to be published in January 2026 and will be presented at the XIII Ibero-American Week of International Justice (May 2026).
- Completion of the 27 collective works resulting from the Research Program on Responses to Corruption associated with Transnational Organized Crime (2020-2024), funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia and the Universities of Rosario and Pontificia Javeriana (Colombia), which has had the institutional support of the IIH. At this time, 20 of the 27 volumes are already available for free download, it is expected that another 4 will be available at the end of this month of May (criminology 1 and 2 and criminal procedural law 1 and 2) and the remaining 3 (tax I and 2 and criminal procedural law 3) between June and August.
All the collective works have been published as volumes 16 to 42 of the Ibero-American Perspectives on Justice Collection (co-edited by Tirantlo Blanch, IIH and Instituto Joaquín Herrera Flores (Brazil/Spain)) and can be downloaded free of charge at:
https://editorial.tirant.com/es/colecciones/perspectivas-iberoamericanas-sobre-la-justicia.
- Publication of Volume 12 (2024) of the Ibero-American Yearbook of International Criminal Law (ANIDIP), which is published jointly with the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and the Tirant lo Blanch Publishing House (Spain), and can be downloaded free of charge (like the previous 11 volumes) at:
https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/anidip.
- Submission to the Editorial of Volume 5 (2025) of the Bilingual Series (English/Spanish): International Law Clinic Reports (ILCR). Publication is expected in the last quarter of 2025. The above four volumes are available for free download at:
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/items/f41c5371-14b0-4b08-85c7-e1ce9330f24d.
- Selection by the international jury of the winning essay of the XIV Edition of the CEBOS Essay Contest on International Criminal Justice: Mercenaries or Victims? The International Criminal Responsibility of the Recruiters of Deceived Soldiers, written by Simón Ospina Pieschacón (Colombia).
- Selection by the international jury of the winning essay of the VIII Edition of the Contest of Critical Studies on Justice (CECJ): International Right to Cultural Restitution? A View from the Quimbaya Treasure Case, written by Gabriel Andrés Concha Botero (Colombia).
If anyone is interested in the 18-page official program, please contact bzagaris@bcrlaw.com