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About the People's Academy
The People’s Academy of International Law, which is sponsored by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, seeks to help anti-imperialist lawyers and human rights advocates globally to marshal the tools of international law to support people’s struggles.
It will feature a free, online continuing legal education curriculum that provides intensive learning about different facets of international law as it relates to human rights, including both civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights. Our first courses will be offered in November 2023.
Postponed: Course 5B, Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization
Course 5B, Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization.
THIS COURSE WILL NOT TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24. IT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR THE NEW DATE.
Faculty for Course 5B:
- Chief Charles Taku, Renowned international legal practitioner before international courts and tribunals; life member, Governing Council of African Bar Association
- Roberto Zamora, filed successful lawsuit in Costa Rica for illegality of Iraq war
- Martha Schmidt, Co-chair of Human Rights Framework Project of the National Lawyers Guild
The program will be moderated by Marjorie Cohn, Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law.
Videos now online: Course 5A, Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization
Videos are now online for Course 5A, Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization. Watch the videos and download supplemental materials at the course page.
Faculty for Course 5A:
- Bill Bowring, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, UN expert consultant, human rights barrister and scholar
- Curtis Doebbler, Law professor at University of Makeni in Sierra Leone, advisor to NGOs, and human rights attorney in San Antonio, Texas.
- Andrew Reid, International Human Rights practitioner and University of Denver law professor, expert on Indigenous peoples rights and Earth jurisprudence
The program was moderated by Marjorie Cohn, Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law.
Launch Video | People's Academy of International Law
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Since its founding in 1946 in Paris, International Association of Democratic Lawyers members have participated in the struggles that have made the violation of human rights of groups and individuals and threats to international peace and security, legal issues under international law. From its inception, IADL members throughout the globe have protested racism, colonialism, and economic and political injustice wherever they interfere with legal and human rights, often at the cost of these jurists personal safety and economic well being.
IADL is the organizer of the People’s Academy of International Law, and is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with consultative status to ECOSOC and UNESCO.
Our Founding Dean and Scientific Committee
The People’s Academy of International Law is led by our Founding Dean, Marjorie Cohn, along with our Academy Task Force and the Scientific Committee of the People’s Academy of International Law.
This global group of scholars, lawyers and human rights defenders is committed to producing academically excellent, anti-imperialist, meaningful legal education for use by lawyers, legal workers, law students and people’s movements.