Living Wage Innovation Challenge — Cast your Vote!

The Hague Institute for Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) is currently running a exciting innovation challenge, this year including ideas about how to promote a living wage in the garment industry.  You can review the best competing ideas, culled from many more submissions, and cast your vote for your top choice here. 

Two additional HiiL Innovating Justice challenges are also human rights-related.  One focuses on testing new ideas for expanding justice; the other addresses scaling up successful innovations that have already been through a testing phase.  Now, I have to admit that I have a horse in this race.  In the “new idea” category, the NuLawLab is working with both Connecticut and New Haven Legal Services to spearhead an innovative use of on-line gaming to assist unrepresented litigants in advocating for themselves.  You can learn more about (and hopefully vote for) our proposal here.  Voting ends September 17.

Based in the Netherlands, HiiL is an advisory and research institute for the justice sector. Its mission is to provide crucial knowledge to make law work for people and their organizations.  The Innovating Justice Awards have been around for several years, and have generated considerable interest internationally, particularly by opening up dialogues between lawyers and innovators from other disciplines (such as game design).  One of the 2013 awards was specifically directed at expanding human rights.  It’s an exciting model for stimulating policy innovation and social change across the spectrum of justice issues, including in the human rights field.