(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 and international refugee 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.
(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.
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Against this background, the program is composed of two phases. In the first phase (first two weeks), students get acquainted with the competences necessary to work on the said projects. Accordingly, the following three aspects are particularly touched upon: legal framework (rules, practice and institutions); methodology of research in international law; methodology of research in the specific field of international protection; drafting skills. In the second phase, the class works as a laboratory, during which drafts prepared by students are discussed.
Programme
The activity 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 works on two projects. The first originates from the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the Department and the Rome Tribunal, XVIII Specialized section on individuals rights and immigration, meant to support the Tribunal in the drafting of so-called "Country of Origin Information" reports. The second project originates from the "Transnational Listing Project", in cooperation with Kent University (UK). Students participate in the drafting of petitions before the Office of the Ombudsperson of the Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.Against this background, the program is composed of two phases. In the first phase (first two weeks), students get acquainted with the competences necessary to work on the said projects. Accordingly, the following three aspects are particularly touched upon: legal framework (rules, practice and institutions); methodology of research in international law; methodology of research in the specific field of international protection; drafting skills. In the second phase, the class works as a laboratory, during which drafts prepared by students are discussed.
Core Documentation
The activity does not require the study of a specific textbook, as documents to be studied depend on the projects entrusted to the clinic. Please see the bibliography for the readings suggested in the present year.Reference Bibliography
G. Goodwin-Gill, J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (3rd edn, Oxford University Press, 2007) E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014) C. Walter, Terrorism, in R. Woldfrum (ed), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) B. Fassbender, ‘Targeted Sanctions Imposed by the UN Security Council and Due Process Rights’ in (2006) 3 International Organizations Law Review 437Type of delivery of the course
The activity will consist in one weekly meeting (total amount 40 hrs of frontal lessons), during which the class will discuss the drafts elaborated by the students (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)Type of evaluation
The students enrolled in the activity 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) with the aim to elaborate so-called Reports "Country of Origin Information" which, as per the Memorandum of Understanding with the Rome Tribunal, constitute one of the outputs of the project. The drafts will be evaluated weekly.