KGF Research & Teaching Associate Nicholas Ortiz will speak at the European Career Day of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University on Saturday, 25 May.
If you are aspiring a career in international law, you are warmly invited to hear from Nicholas about his experiences with the KGF and beyond.
The European Career Day provides you with the opportunity to meet representatives from governmental institutions, law firms, non-governmental organizations, companies and other outstanding personalities, which will share their experience with you, their personal path to their current occupation and foremost help you to be prepared for everything that you will face on the road to your goals.
You are still invited to apply for our Summer School on 'IHL in Theory and Practice' – we are looking forward to welcoming you from 8 July to 12 July in the Hague, the international city of peace and justice!
We are happy to announce that we are co-organizing this HILAC lecture on the "The Conduct of Hostilities and International Humanitarian Law: Challenges of 21st Century Warfare", including contributions by Prof. Terry Gill, Leiden alumni Wieteke Theeuwen, and KGF Director Dr. Robert Heinsch!
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Although international humanitarian law has adapted to new circumstances, this field of law was originally designed to deal with inter-state wars. Moreover, in modern armed conflicts the conduct of hostilities increasingly seems to take place in parallel with law enforcement operations. To what extent need the rules governing the conduct of hostilities be clarified, both in terms of their scope of application and their substantive aspects?
Join our HILAC lecture on 6 June: "The Conduct of Hostilities and International Humanitarian Law: Challenges of 21st Century Warfare."
https://www.asser.nl/education-events/events/?id=3078
Join us for our upcoming IHL summer school, which is taking place from 8 to 12 July 2019, and which we are organising in close cooperation with the Netherlands Red Cross. Deadline for applications is 1 May 2019. If you are interested in a deep insight into "IHL in Theory in Practice", please check out the details at http://kalshovengieskesforum.com/summer-school/! 😊
Etienne Kuster's article “Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach” refers to our IHL Clinic as an innovative paedagogic idea that “bridges an important gap between IHL theory and practice” and has “increased the quality of IHL teaching”. Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies Leiden Law School
It is expected that IHL Clinics will “continue flourishing worldwide with the support of the existing ones and the ICRC” – we are actively working towards that and we are very much looking forward to expanding the network of IHL Clinics!
Read the full article here: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/promoting-teaching-ihl-universities-overview-successes-and-challenges
Find out more about IHL Clinics by having a look at the article by KGF Director Dr. Robert Heinsch and Lotte Chevalier, LLM, on “The Educational Value of IHL Clinics” https://elibrary.bwv-verlag.de/article/99.105025/huv201803022501,
or visit our website at http://kalshovengieskesforum.com/ihl-clinic/!
Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach
AbstractAccording to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, States have to include the study of those texts within their programmes of military and civil instruction. What role do universities play in that regard? How has the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) supported the teaching of in...
Excited for the final season of Game of Thrones and wanting to learn more about the application of IHL? Check out this analysis by the Australian Red Cross on IHL violations by your favorite GoT characters!
Who is Game of Thrones worst war criminal?
Nerd alert: to celebrate the launch of the eighth and final season of Games of Thrones we’ve analysed every episode of the last seven seasons to find the show’s worst war criminal.
Warmest congratulations to Dr. Yudan Tan for successfully defending her PhD on “The Rome Statute as Evidence of Customary International Law”, which was co-supervised by Prof. William Schabas and KGF Director Dr. Robert Heinsch. Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies Leiden Law School
For more information on the dissertation, please see: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/04/the-rome-statute-as-evidence-of-customary-international-law
We are looking forward to tomorrow's PhD defence by Ms. Yudan Tan, LL.M., on the topic "The Rome Statute as Evidence of Customary International Law", which was co-supervised by Prof. William Schabas and KGF Director Dr. Robert Heinsch.
Everybody who is interested is invited to join us tomorrow at 10 am in the Academy Building of Leiden University, Rapenburg 73.
The Rome Statute as Evidence of Customary International Law
Supervisor Prof. W.A. Schabas Attend PhD defences are free; you do not have to register. Summary This dissertation provides a detailed analysis of the practical and urgent issue concerning the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as evidence of customary international law. The
Emma Irving and Nicholas Ortiz share their observations on the use of social media content in their blog post “A New Window In? Social Media and the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, published on Opinio Juris.
Social media plays an increasing role in the pursuit of accountability for violations of international humanitarian, criminal, and human rights law.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory allows social media to act as a window into violent situations for the wider public, which represents another step towards developing an understanding of its use, value, and limitations in this field.
A New Window In? Social Media and the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
[Emma Irving is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Law, Leiden University and Nicholas Ortiz is a Research and Teaching Associate at the Kals…
