Università Roma Tre

The course is a legal clinic in the field of international human rights law. It works on projects that, in the said field, have a clear social justice aim. In this academic year, the clinic has been entrusted with two projects. First, pursuant to an agreement with the UNHCR, the clinic will work on the Project “Statelessness Legal Clinics: Strenghtening Legal Education and Practice on Statelessness”. The Project aims at strategically litigate cases before the Tribunal of Rome in cooperation with the UNHCR and the legal clinics of the Universities of Napoli Federico II and Turin IUC. Second, the clinic will participate in a strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, on the issue of deprivation of liberty, in cooperation with ASGI.

Against this background, the program is composed of two phases.

In the first phase, students get acquainted with the competences necessary to work on the projects. Accordingly, lectures will concern: (i) general issues: legal framework (rules, practice and institutions); methodology of research in international law; drafting skills; (ii) issues specific to the two projects, entrusted to guest lecturers.

In the second phase, the class works as a laboratory, during which drafts prepared by students are discussed on a weekly basis.

Reference textbook is: Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Giappichelli, 2021). The volume can be acquired at a discounted price. Please follow the guidelines of the Professor on this matter.