This course, took place on the February 17th.
Faculty analyzed international law provisions and jurisprudence that establish the duty to disobey illegal orders; the right to conscientious objection; individual and command responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide; and the prohibition of the defense of following superior orders.
Course 12: U.S. Military and Economic Aggression agasint Venezuela took place on Tuesday, January 20, from 9-12:00 PDT (17-20:00 UTC). Faculty include Carlos Ron, Gisela Jiménez Aranguren, David Palis Fuentes, and Leonardo Flores. Supplemental materials and recording available on the course page.
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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.
The Academy features free, online legal education curriculum that provides intensive learning about different facets of international law related to human rights, including civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights. The People’s Academy is a non-government organization that is run by volunteers and funded by donations from individuals.
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.
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.
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