Learning outcomes

The course of Advanced International Law intends to provide conceptual and methodological bases for a critical analysis of international human rights protection mechanisms arranged within both the United Nations Organisation and the different regional systems.
From the first point of view, the main range of legal instruments and the control mechanisms for the observance of international obligations will be analysed.
Moving to the regional level, particular attention will be paid to the European Convention for the Pro-tection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and to the European Union system for the pro-tection of human rights, also trying to single out all the issues related to the conflicts that can possibly arise between judgments of the courts of Luxembourg and Strasbourg.
The course aims at developing, from a legal perspective, increasing challenges underlying the inter-national protection of human rights. The adopted critical and systematic approach attempts to en-courage the proactive participation of the students.
Particular attention will be paid to international-European instruments and guaranties to promote and protect the rights of migrant children. For this reason, the course addresses the activities of the De-partment of Law as “Chair of the UNCRC Policy Center” coordinated by Hope for Children.
At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand and to analyse the functioning of in-ternational mechanisms created in order to ensure that the fundamental rights of treaties and the case law of supra-national courts are effectively guaranteed in national legal systems.