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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.
Register Now: Course 3A: Key UN Agencies - UNHRC, UNRWA, UNESCO
Register Now for Course 3A of the People’s Academy of International Law: Key UN Agencies — UNHRC, UNRWA & UNESCO on Thursday, April 11.
Faculty for Course 3A:
Michael Lynk, Former UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian Territory and Emeritus Professor of Law
Susan Akram, Clinical Professor and Director, Boston University International Human Rights Clinic
Hilal Elver, Former UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food and Professor of International Law
The program will be moderated by Marjorie Cohn, Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law.
Videos now online: Seminar B - The Illegality of Unilateral Coercive Measures
The videos for Seminar B , The Illegality of Unilateral Coercive Measures, conducted on March 21, are now online, featuring faculty:
- Nina Farnia – Legal historian and scholar; Professor of Law, Albany Law School; co-chair, International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism
- Prabhat Patnaik – Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- María Lucrecia Hernández – Director of SURES, Venezuela
- Charlotte Kates – International Coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network; National Lawyers Guild International Committee
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.