The course is a legal clinic in the filed of international human rights law. It works on projects that, in the said field, have a clear social justice aim. In this academic year, two projects have already been assigned to the clinic but further projects are being agreed upon. As to the already approved 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.
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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.
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.