20110242 - International protection of human rights,legal clinic

(I) capacity to identify relevant rules and ability to apply them within the area of the law related to the human right to access to justice, in the context of international human rights law;
(II) capacity to pinpoint and analyse the facts of a case in which a human rights violation is claimed or of a given country-specific situation, and ability to subsume them within relevant norms; it falls within this objective that of evaluating said cases and situations on the basis of the reports of UN specialized agencies (e.g. UNHCR, IOM), non-governmental organizations (e.g. Amnesty International), international organizations (e.g. EU), of relevant ministries (e.g. the MFA) and on the basis of open access information (press) and case law;
(III) capacity to identify and understand relevant rules of foreign legal orders (the Italian, European, international and third States legal orders) and ability to understand relations among them and draft legal memoranda and reports in English and Italian;
(IV) competence to draft legal briefs and reports, notably with a style appropriate to international law firms and the UN.

Curriculum

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Mutuazione: 20110242 International protection of human rights,legal clinic (Clinca legale in protezione internazionale dei diritti umani) in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 RICCARDI ALICE

Programme

The course is a legal clinic in the field of international human rights law. It works on projects that, in the said field, have a clear social justice aim. In this academic year, the clinic has been entrusted with two projects. First, pursuant to an agreement with the UNHCR, the clinic will work on the Project “Statelessness Legal Clinics: Strenghtening Legal Education and Practice on Statelessness”. The Project aims at strategically litigate cases before the Tribunal of Rome in cooperation with the UNHCR and the legal clinics of the Universities of Napoli Federico II and Turin IUC. Second, the clinic will participate in a strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, on the issue of deprivation of liberty, in cooperation with ASGI.

Against this background, the program is composed of two phases.

In the first phase, students get acquainted with the competences necessary to work on the projects. Accordingly, lectures will concern: (i) general issues: legal framework (rules, practice and institutions); methodology of research in international law; drafting skills; (ii) issues specific to the two projects, entrusted to guest lecturers.

In the second phase, the class works as a laboratory, during which drafts prepared by students are discussed on a weekly basis.

Core Documentation

Reference textbook is: Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Giappichelli, 2021). The volume can be acquired at a discounted price. Please follow the guidelines of the Professor on this matter.

Type of delivery of the course

The first phase of the course (three weeks) consists of frontal lessons. During the second phase, the class discusses the drafts elaborated by the students (legal researches, translations, drafts of petitions/amicus curiae briefs/applications, gathering of information). Should the current emergency situation continue, the course will follow the modalities established by the competent authorities.

Type of evaluation

The students enrolled in the course will draft written papers on a weekly basis. These drafts may be legal researches, translations, drafts in the context of the lodging of petitions and applications before international jurisdictions and organs, gathering of information on selected States and themes (e.g. women rights, domestic violence, LGBTQI rights, armed conflicts). These drafts constitute the outputs of the project and are evaluated weekly.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20110242 International protection of human rights,legal clinic (Clinca legale in protezione internazionale dei diritti umani) in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 RICCARDI ALICE

Programme

The course is a legal clinic in the field of international human rights law. It works on projects that, in the said field, have a clear social justice aim. In this academic year, the clinic has been entrusted with two projects. First, pursuant to an agreement with the UNHCR, the clinic will work on the Project “Statelessness Legal Clinics: Strenghtening Legal Education and Practice on Statelessness”. The Project aims at strategically litigate cases before the Tribunal of Rome in cooperation with the UNHCR and the legal clinics of the Universities of Napoli Federico II and Turin IUC. Second, the clinic will participate in a strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, on the issue of deprivation of liberty, in cooperation with ASGI.

Against this background, the program is composed of two phases.

In the first phase, students get acquainted with the competences necessary to work on the projects. Accordingly, lectures will concern: (i) general issues: legal framework (rules, practice and institutions); methodology of research in international law; drafting skills; (ii) issues specific to the two projects, entrusted to guest lecturers.

In the second phase, the class works as a laboratory, during which drafts prepared by students are discussed on a weekly basis.

Core Documentation

Reference textbook is: Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Giappichelli, 2021). The volume can be acquired at a discounted price. Please follow the guidelines of the Professor on this matter.

Type of delivery of the course

The first phase of the course (three weeks) consists of frontal lessons. During the second phase, the class discusses the drafts elaborated by the students (legal researches, translations, drafts of petitions/amicus curiae briefs/applications, gathering of information). Should the current emergency situation continue, the course will follow the modalities established by the competent authorities.

Type of evaluation

The students enrolled in the course will draft written papers on a weekly basis. These drafts may be legal researches, translations, drafts in the context of the lodging of petitions and applications before international jurisdictions and organs, gathering of information on selected States and themes (e.g. women rights, domestic violence, LGBTQI rights, armed conflicts). These drafts constitute the outputs of the project and are evaluated weekly.