This course offers a broad overview of public international law and its various areas, its relations to politics, and current challenges of the international legal system. The focus will be on the ...

This course provides a broad introduction to international law with emphasis on current issues. Within public international law, topics covered will include the recognition of new states, ...

The human rights movement grew out of the disasters of World War II and is at the basis of international law theory and practice. The international rule of exhaustion of local remedies before ...

You will start with an introduction to general principles governing international law, and then apply those principles in optional units covering specialist areas such as human rights, armed conflict, ...

International humanitarian law (IHL), is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. IHL is a set of rules which seek – for humanitarian reasons – to limit the effects of armed conflict ...