Our courses and seminars are taught by recognized experts in international law, from UN Special Rapporteurs to legal academics to people’s lawyers with decades of experience using international law and legal mechanisms to protect human rights.

International legal experts provide an understanding of legal principles derived from human rights treaties, customary international law, and other sources. Noted practitioners help participants understand how this body of law can be implemented in practice to defend people’s struggles. In addition, we offer seminars on more focused topics.

The curriculum includes the UN system; human and people’s rights; the regional systems – including African, European and American; the international law of armed conflict and refugee law; international crimes, repression and the fight against impunity; liberation and emancipation struggles and international law; the crisis of international law and world capitalism; the right to a healthy and clean environment; universal coercive measures; the abolition of nuclear weapons; the use of international law to combat neoliberalism; indigenous people’s struggles; independence of the judiciary and protection of lawyers; and the right to peace.

We present courses and seminars in English, Spanish, and French, and sometimes Arabic and Korean, to ensure the widest possible dissemination of our curriculum, that is, “language justice.”