We 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
Continue readingOur conference summary report on the IHL Clinic Exchange Conference 2016 is online now. Please find also here a short newsletter report from Leiden Law School on the seven days of our 2nd annual IHL Clinic Conference.
Continue readingCall for Applications Winter Term 2019/20 The Leiden IHL Clinic The International Humanitarian Law Clinic is a platform in which students of the Leiden LL.M. programmes in Public International Law conduct research for various cooperation partners of the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law. The students are supervised, on the
Continue readingWarm welcome words from Mr. Benjamin Ferencz (Former Prosecutor at the US Military Tribunal at Nuremberg) via video message at the IHL Clinic Exchange Conference 2016. Mr. Ferencz gave an inspiring motivational speech to the young international lawyers, which left a lasting impression on the participants. His key message was
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