Sam Muller

Biography

Sam Muller is the founding director of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), appointed in January 2005. Before that, between 1 July 2002 and December 2004, he worked at the International Criminal Court (ICC) where he was Special Adviser to the Registrar on External Relations, after having been interim Deputy Director of the Common Services Division and Acting Director of the Public Information and Documentation Section of the Registry.

Between 1 July and 30 October 2002 he headed up the Advance Team to set up the ICC. Prior to the ICC he worked as Senior Legal Adviser and head of the Legal Department of the Registry of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and as legal officer at the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza. Between 1995 and 1996 he was associate professor and programme coordinator of the Public International Law LLM programme of Leiden University, prior to which he was a research fellow with the Europa Instituut of that same university.

Sam Muller holds a law degree and a doctorate from Leiden University. He has published and spoken extensively on various topics, focusing mainly on the law of international organisations and international justice issues. He serves on various Boards, including The Hague Prize Foundation, The Dr. Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, and the Hague Institute for Global Justice. He is chairman of the Board of the Hague Academic Coalition. Mr Muller is married and has three children.