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Law is something that touches our lives on a daily basis, it governs what we can and cannot do, it is used to settle disputes, maintain order and protect liberties and rights
The human rights and fundamental liberties are nowadays internationalized and protected by international conventions, at the level of regional organizations (European Union, African Union, etc.) as well as by the United Nations system, with binding norms for governments.
What you’ll learn
- The context and evolution of the internationalization of human rights
- The three generations of human rights (political, economic, environmental) developed at the international level, and the prospective of a fourth generation related to information technologies
- The way these rights are respected and enforced within the domestic order of nation states
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h
Subject: Law
Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Platforms: Physical/Online
Topic(s): N/AInternational Investment Law is a branch of public and private international law which deals with relationships between multinational companies and governments, foreign investors and host states in which they operate.
What you’ll learn
- The international legal context of international investments: international conventions, treaties, etc.
- The role of bilateral and multilateral treaty in defining the rights of the investor and of the domestic stakeholders inside the hosting state
- The way conflicts and litigation are resolved in these issues
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Law Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/ADerived from the Geneva convention, international humanitarian law is the international legal framework for the protection of lives and integrity of individuals and communities in situations of conflicts, wars, occupation or oppression, prisoners, civilians, human communities.
What you’ll learn
- The context and evolution of the international humanitarian law
- The key principles and mechanisms of international humanitarian law
- Its practical implementation through the international criminal courts
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Law Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AEnvironment is protected by international conventions and treaties and this is relevant for states who have a deficient or insufficient legislative framework to protect environment, as well as for international or shared areas.
What you’ll learn
- The principle of environmental law
- The dynamics of international conferences on environment and their resolutions and the international conventions
- Practical cases of implementation of international environmental law
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Law Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/ACrime is not only an issue for legal studies. Rather, criminal law is always supported by sociologic and psychological studies in order to understand crimes and to define the appropriate response to be given by the legislator.
What you’ll learn
- How relevant is criminal sociology in order to understand what a society considers as a crime and criminal psychology identifying the motivation for crime
- Practical cases of analysis of criminal behaviors and how we can interpret them from the psychologic and sociologic point of view
- How the legislator and the practitioners of law (lawyers, magistrates etc..) can take advantage of a sociologic and of a psychologic approach to crime and use it for an appropriate application/ or reform of the law.
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Law Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/AThe rapid evolution of media with the expansion of information technologies and social network requires appropriate regulation and a redefinition of the journalist’s ethical framework.
What you’ll learn
- How did the evolution of media with the expansion of information technologies and social network render many old legislations obsolete and require legislative reforms
- What are the fundamental rights of individuals and professionals in using medias in the context of this evolution
- How far did the expansion of social networks stress out the need for a solid ethical framework for the users and professionals in order to determine the limits of one’s freedom: for instance, how to deal with fake news
Duration: 2 days / 1 week / 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 8 h / 20 h / 40 h Subject: Law Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced Platforms: Physical/OnlineTopic(s): N/A