The Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum and its staff are sad to have lost not only their name giver, emeritus professor and outstanding expert in IHL, but also a wonderful human being: so kind, friendly and humble, that it is hard to describe with words. Our thoughts are with his wife, family, friends
Continue readingOn Thursday, 8 June 2017, the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law, in cooperation with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Netherlands Red Cross, hosted a panel discussion in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols. Ms. Mirjam de Bruin (Netherlands Red Cross) and
Continue readingOn 13 March 2017, Dr. Giulia Pinzauti addressed Senior Course 130 at the NATO Defence College – the Alliance’s premier academic institution – in Rome. Dr. Pinzauti spoke on the subject of “The United Nations and International Courts” to an audience comprised of 54 military officers and government officials from
Continue readingOn 13 March 2017, Prof. Helen Duffy was officially appointed as Gieskes Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. During her inaugural lecture she gave an insight into strategic human rights litigation, addressing ‘Bursting the Bubble on the Champagne Moment’. The
Continue readingWe are happy to announce that Prof. Dr. John Dugard, Emeritus Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University and Ad Hoc Judge at the International Court of Justice will deliver the opening lecture of the 2017 International Humanitarian Law Summer School. Visit the Leiden University Summer School page for more
Continue readingPlease find here a short interview with Dr. Robert Heinsch (Associate Professor of International Law & Director of the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum) and Martine Wierenga (Programme Manager at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies) about the Grotius Centre’s Summer Schools, with a specific focus on the IHL Summer School. For more
Continue readingSummer School on International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice This summer, from 9-15 July 2017, the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on IHL will host the second annual IHL Summer School: “International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice”. The course is designed by Dr. Robert Heinsch, in cooperation with the colleagues from the
Continue readingCall for Applications Winter Semester 2017 General information The “International Humanitarian Law Clinic” is a platform in which students of the Leiden LL.M. program in Public International Law do research for various cooperation partners of the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum in the humanitarian field. The students are supervised, on the one hand
Continue readingOn 26-28 January 2017, five of our IHL Clinic students of the winter semester 2016/17 (Ms. Clara Burkard, Mr. David Koeller, Mr. Ashwin Manoharan, Ms. Yildiz Miller and Ms. Cristina San Juan Serrano) and their IHL Clinic supervisors (Ms. Christine Tremblay, LL.M. and Ms. Sofia Poulopoulou, LL.M.) participated in a
Continue readingThe Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum is proud to announce that one of our IHL Clinic teams, consisting of Leiden students Lotte Chevalier and Talitha Ramphal (LL.M. programme), Laura Hoekstra and Miranda de Mik (Honours College) and Seán McGinnity (Erasmus exchange programme), finished their four-month research on “The effectiveness of human rights monitoring: the need
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