Academic Agenda

This year's theme: Bridging the gap between the individual and international law: humanitarian concepts and criminal responsibility

Law is Better Than War! is intended to be a dynamic, motivating and competitive learning environment. With a complex Academic Agenda, this year’s humanitarian law summer school brings to attention a wider range of topics. Among the listed topics, participating students and graduates will discuss about Use of armed force, means and methods of warfare, peacekeeping operations and humanitarian interventions, criminal responsibility and also other equally interesting topics

This Edition’s Academic Agenda is the result of a close cooperation between the organizers and well-known professionals (scientific coordinators) . Moreover, courses and seminars will be held by renowned theoreticians, legal practitioners and other representative figures of the scientific community. 



19 July 2010
  • International Humanitarian Law & International Human Rights Law – an introduction
  • IHRL overview – universal and regional systems

     

20 July 2010
  • Use of armed force – ius ad bellum
  • General rules-UN / Peacekeeping operations

 

21 July 2010

  • Humanitarian intervention: Use of armed force and individuals 1.

  • Use of armed force and individuals 2.

 

22 July 2010
  • Conference/ Institutional visit


23 July 2010

  • Conduct of hostilities
  • Means and methods of warfare 1
24 July 2010
  • Means and methods of warfare 2.
  • Strasbourg-Day: Human rights in the framework of the Council of Europe
  • Jurisprudence of the ECHR (related to armed conflicts)

 

25 July 2010

 

26 July 2010

  • Argumentation and public speaking development trainings

 

27 July 2010

  • Preparation for the Moot Court Competition

 

27 July 2010

  • Moot Court Competition
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