The Conference was founded by Maria Bottis in 2008, under the program of postgraduate studies ‘ Science of Information’ and the course ‘Information Law and Ethics’ (from which course it adopted its name).

ICIL started as an international Seminar on information law and ethics, with ten international speakers, reaching four parallel sessions with 130 speakers in 2011 and equal numbers in 2012, in Corfu. ICIL has hosted since 2008 a great number of experts on information law and ethics, representing the best academic institutions in the world.

Other special sessions of ICIL include:

Μuseum Ethics, 2011
Privacy and Surveillance, 2012
Ethics and Bibliometrics, 2012
Women in Academia, 2012
Arts and Ethics, 2012
Libraries and Information Capital, 2012
Information and Data protection in health law and medicine, 2014
Law and Cryptography, 2014

ISIL 2008, First ISIL, Corfu - INSEIT report on the First International Seminar on Information law and Ethics, Corfu 2008 INSEIT Newsletter 8.3
ISIL 2009, Second ISIL (with CEPE 2009, in Corfu, Greece)
ISIL 2010, Third ISIL, Corfu, Greece
ICIL 2011, Fourth ICIL, Thessaloniki, Greece
ICIL 2012, Fifth ICIL, Corfu, Greece
ICIL 2014, Sixth ICIL, Thessaloniki, Greece
ICIL 2016, Seventh ICIL, Pretoria, South Africa, February 22-23, 2016
ICIL 2018, Eight ICIL, Antwerp, December 13-14, 2018
ICIL 2019, Ninenth ICIL, Rome, Italy, July 11-13, 2019