Bernard Victor Aloysius "Bert" Röling (26 December 1906 – 16 March 1985)[1] was a Dutch jurist and founding father of polemology in the Netherlands.

[citation needed] Röling started teaching in Utrecht the same year and founded the Institute for Criminology in 1934 together with Willem Pompe.

In deliberations with judges from ten other countries, he dissented from the tribunal's verdict that convicted Japan as aggressor.

[citation needed] In 1950 Röling was appointed professor at the University of Groningen where he founded the Institute for Polemology in 1962.

[3] Hugo Röling, another son, wrote a book about his father during the period as judge at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.