IHL Clinic Exchange Conference 2024

From the 26th to 29th May 2024, our IHL Clinic students, consisting of NOHAs, EMAs, and students from RUB's law faculty, participated in an IHL Clinic Exchange Conference in Rome, bringing together IHL Clinic students and staff from the IFHV, the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Universiteit Leiden.
This collaboration is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and enabled our students to experience an exciting programme of lectures, peer-to-peer presentations, networking events, and a visit to the UN World Food Programme HQ!

The programme culminated in the ‘Conference on Military Manuals on IHL: challenges and opportunities in drafting instruments for the application of IHL by Armed Forces’, chaired by Prof. Giulio Bartolini. The conference provided a deep dive featuring diverse perspectives. Speakers from Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States of America came together to discuss different examples of existing National IHL Manuals and current drafting initiatives outlining common issues and challenges in drafting such instruments. In addition to these country perspectives, NATO and the ICRC joined to present their views.

The programme was driven by a spirit of knowledge-exchange and capacity-sharing, and seeks to foster professional skills and career development. It also facilitates students’ exposure to practitioners of IHL and related fields working in armed forces, public service, civil society and academia.

On Thursday, 30 May 2024, the IHL RED Consortium, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, hosted the IHL Legal Clinics Networking Conference to discuss with IHL academics and humanitarian organizations the opportunities and challenges of clinical legal education in International Humanitarian Law.

Visit www.ihl-red.org to learn more about the project, its deliverables and the value of IHL Clinics.