Humanitarian Law

Teacher(s)

Van Steenberghe Raphael ;

Language

Français

Main themes

Analyse in legal terms and thus with the tools of this discipline (namely the texts of the international treaties, the resolutions of N.A.T.Os, national laws, national and international court decisions, in particular and legal litera-ture) of the rules defining humanitarian action at international level. Development of a critical thinking about the demonstration of a relatively recent reality covered by the expres-sion "duty/right to humanitarian interference" and the legal relationship between the various public as well as private actors of the humanitarian action. The distinction will be made between the situations caused by wars and humanitarian crises which are not caused by armed conflict .

Aims

- Knowledge acquisition related to material taught (i.p. measures facilitating the access to victims in a war situa-tions as well as in absence of conflict, along with the institutional framework in which the emergency aid takes place), Better knowledge of the concepts used in this field, Better use of formal legal sources (i.e. international treaties, etc.) and adapted study of the legal reasoning; - to encourage the students to the development of a critical analysis brought up by a legal analysis relating to the international humanitarian crises as well as to the legal rules defining the deployment of the international hu-manitarian action

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