Università Roma Tre

International Humanitarian Law Legal Clinic


As for the 2016-2017 academic year the IHL Legal Clinic will be involved in two research projects in cooperation with leading institutions in this area, ie. the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Italian Red Cross, IHL Commission:
- Best Practices in the Application of IHL: Through this project the International Committee of the Red Cross aims to identify positive examples in the application of this body of law through a review of practice related to recent international and non-international armed conflicts. Students will be requested to scrutinize a series of armed conflicts in order to legally assess it and pinpoint cases of positive applications of relevant IHL provisions by parties involved in these hostilities. This research will be carried out in cooperation with a network of other IHL Legal Clinics based at Leiden University, Emory Law School and Radzyner Law School.
- Update of the Italian Practice of International Humanitarian Law: This project is linked with the ICRC’s project on Customary International Humanitarian Law in order to provide periodic updates to be included in the database managed by the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, University of Cambridge in cooperation with the British Red Cross. Students will be requested to identify and systematize relevant Italian practice in the area of IHL (national legislation, military doctrine, case-law, official statements, etc.) according to the guidelines provided by the ICRC. This project will be carried out under the supervision of the IHL Commission, Italian Red Cross.

International Humanitarian Law Legal Clinic