As a ILGSPD student, you can diversify and strengthen your knowledge and experience by selecting from two non-credit bearing summer school options:

• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Munich Advanced Course in International Law

LMU’s Advanced Course in International Law is a highly reputable summer school that offers seminars on advanced issues of international law, focusing on a specific theme each year and allowing students to enhance their specialised expertise.

• York University (Toronto, Canada), The Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration

The Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration is an internationally-acclaimed course for researchers, students, practitioners, service providers and policy makers working in the area of forced migration. This is a unique opportunity to study this topical and significant issue in an interdisciplinary context and along with a diverse group of participants.

• René Cassin Foundation (Strasbourg, France), International Institute for Human Rights

This historic training session will include in-depth instruction on the international protection of human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Round tables, masterclasses and discussions on international careers round off this intensive training session on human rights education.

• Leipzig University and TU Dresden (Leipzig, Germany), International Summer School on Human Rights in Theory and Practice

The Summer School will focus on the Dynamic Evolution of Fundamental and Human Rights. Topics such as religious freedom, climate litigation, migration and the digital space will be explored from an interdisciplinary perspective. Once again, it will be one of the Summer School’s key characteristics that speakers will include both academics as well as practitioners, offering the unique opportunity to gain insights into current theoretical discussions as well as the everyday challenges of practicing law.

• Association PRAVNIK and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), International Summer School Sarajevo (ISSS)

International Summer School Sarajevo is dedicated to explore the effect transition had on legal systems of South-east European countries to respond to human rights challenges which where prevalent in the past. The Summer School will focus on topics including transitional justice, international criminal justice, memorialisation, reparations, women, peace and security agenda, peacebuilding and reconciliation.

A range of further formative and extra-curricular features are embedded within this programme. These include:

• Law clinics and moot courts (including the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Willem C. Vis Moot Court Competition, European Law Moot Court Competition, Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, Charles Rousseau Moot Court Competition, Manfred Lachs Moot Court Competition on Space Law, International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition, and the Jean-Pictet Competition in International Humanitarian Law, as well as Glasgow’s Clinic in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Practice and Radboud Rule of Law Clinic and the Future Tech Law Clinics)
• Study trips to key international organisations and institutions, such as the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, UN agencies and offices, and NATO
• Opportunities to attend conferences in international law and on issues of global security, peace and development
• Specialist guest lectures and seminars
• Employability training
• Research methods training
• Language learning opportunities