Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ) was established on February 20, 2012 with the following missions:
- To develop research in international law, especially the relationship between international law and other legal systems and between international law and international politics and ethics;
- To strengthen the links between academia and practice;
- To establish and maintain international contacts, and
- To strengthen the profile of international law at Stockholm University.
The centre shall have an interdisciplinary and practice oriented character and will make international law visible as part of the public discourse.