International human rights law

The course is designed i) to give students a global understanding of the origins, functioning, and limits of the international systems of protection of human rights, as well as contemporary developments in the field, ii) to provide them with practical skills in legal reasoning and arguing on both cases and current events that give raise to questions regarding the addressed topics. It aims not only at equipping students with appropriate knowledge of the issues examined in class, but also with the tools to address legal questions originating from a practical case, to acquire language skills and, in the long term, to apply international law principles in a professional and competent manner.

By the end of this course, students should be able to: - Have a deep and detailed knowledge of public international human rights law; - Acquire ability to argue and evaluate complicated international legal issues, also arising from current events; - Understand and evaluate critically legal issues regarding the functioning of the international systems of protection of human rights; - Acquire communication skills (written and oral) as regards the issues dealt with in the course and use them also to argue with logical and legal thoroughness and propriety of legal language.