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International Humanitarian Law
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48 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 12 Sequences
- Advanced Level
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Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
Introductory remarks about International Humanitarian Law, including the relationships between law and armed conflicts, a brief history of that Law and its relations with other branches of International Law, such as international human rights law.
Week 2: Sources and subjects
Analysis of the sources (treaty, including the four 1949 Geneva Conventions, custom and jus cogens) as well as subjects (States, international organizations like the United Nations and armed groups) of International Humanitarian Law.
Week 3: Scope of application
Qualification of situations of violence as armed conflicts and analysis of the temporal and geographical scope of application of International Humanitarian Law.
Week 4: Conduct of hostilities
Analysis of the norms regulating the conduct of hostilities, including the prohibitions to target persons and objects, the prohibitions to use weapons and methods of warfare and the obligation of precaution.
Week 5: Protection of persons
Analysis of the norms regulating the protection of persons in time of war, notably the wounded and sick people, the captured combatants and the civilians, including in time of occupation.
Week 6: State responsibility
Introductory remarks on the implementation means of International Humanitarian Law and analysis of State responsibility mechanisms in case of violations of that Law.
Week 7: Individual responsibility
Analysis of the relevant rules of international criminal law, including the national/international/hybrid mechanisms for the punishing of individuals responsible of war crimes.
Prerequisite
- Knowledge of the fundamentals of International Law (subjects and sources of International Law/principles governing international responsibility). Such knowledge may be acquired by the successful completion of .
- In addition, students should be familiar with the requirements of graduate-level courses and should preferably have already followed some law courses in order to be familiar with legal concepts and legal language.
Instructors
Raphaël Van Steenberghe
Professor at the International Law Centre
Université catholique de Louvain
Jerôme de Hemptinne
Professor, International Humanitarian Law
Université catholique de Louvain
Editor
The Université catholique de Louvain or UCLouvain is a Belgian French-speaking university with several sites in six Belgian cities. Since the adoption of its new name, it has brought together UCL and the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles.
Following the split of the Catholic University of Leuven into two legally independent entities (1968), most of the French-speaking university has been located in Louvain-la-Neuve (Walloon Brabant) since 1972, and in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert for the faculties of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and biomedical sciences. The Dutch-speaking university remains in Leuven, under the name of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). It is one of Belgium's leading universities and is regularly cited as one of the world's top 150 universities.
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