The armed conflicts in Ukraine and, more recently, the fighting in Gaza serve as real-world examples that set in motion the long-lasting debate on the constraints of international law to promote humanity and to restrain brutality on the battlefield when states and non-state actors are fighting existential struggles.
This course provides you with tools to analyze the international humanitarian regulation of armed conflict within the framework of international law, with a focus on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) as well as International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Criminal Law (ICL). Through a mixture of readings, academic presentations, debates, and moot court exercise, you will be prepared to better understand the legal challenges of current and future armed conflicts and to critically analyze and evaluate concrete cases using legal, societal, and political approaches.
Related Discipline(s)
This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):Government, Political Science
